A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
- Groucho Marx
A canter is the cure for all evil.
- Benjamin Disraeli
A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.
- Hazel Nicholson
A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.
- Mugsy Peabody
A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than it loves Itself.
- Josh Billings
A dog wags its tail with its heart
- Martin Buxbaum
A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
- Samuel Butler
A Horse! A Horse! my kingdom for a horse!
- Shakespeare
A horse gallops with his lungs, Perseveres with his heart, And wins with his character.
- Tesio
A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal.
- Proverbs 12:10
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.
- Mary Kay Ash
All Nature is so filled with wisdom one only has to look to the natural world to be guided. As the American Indian intuitively knew— All life contains a Spirit with virtues we may learn from.
- Nan Sea Love
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
- Martin Buber
And God took a handful of southernly wind, blew His breath over it and created the horse.
- Bedouin Legend
Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends
- George Bernard Shaw
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
- Alfred A. Montapert
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Elliot
Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.
- Pythagoras
Animal Quotes A by Anonymous
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
A cat sees us as the dogs...A cat sees himself as the human.
- Anonymous
A cat sneezing is a good omen for everyone who hears it.
- Italian saying
A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue.
- Anonymous
A dog may be a man's best friend but a horse made history...
- Anonymous
A house is not a home without a pet.
- Anonymous
Animal Quotes C
Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it.
- Winifred Carriere
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
- James Herriot
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll on a dead fish.
- James Gorman
Cats don't like change without their consent.
- Roger Caras
Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
- Rod McKuen
Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.
- Thomas De Quincey.
Animal Quotes C by Anonymous
Cat's Motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it.
- Anonymous
Animal Quotes D
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives.
- Sue Murphy
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
- Roger Caras
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
- Mary Bly
Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
- Dave Barry
Animal Quotes D by AnonymousDogs have owners, cats have staff.
- Anonymous
Animal Quotes E
Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts.
- Coleman Cox
Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.
- Jean Cocteau
Animal Quotes E by Anonymous
Eagles: When they walk, they stumble. They are not what one would call graceful. They were not designed to walk. They fly. And when they fly, oh, how they fly, so free, so graceful. They see from the sky what we never see.
- Anonymous
Every animal knows more than you do.
- Native American saying
Every child should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one.
- Anonymous
Animal Quotes G by AnonymousGod created domestic cats so that men might touch tigers.
- Anonymous
Animal Quotes H
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
- W.C. Fields
Animal Quotes I
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
- Abraham Lincoln
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
- Gary Larson
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be. But I think there's another thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.
- Jeff Stilson
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.
- Mark Twain
I identify most strongly with the turtle: I patiently plod along till I reach my destination--and occasionally I stick out my neck.
- Paulette Peltan
I know no greater proof for the existence of a benevolent God, no greater Heaven than holding a purring cat. Those who hunger for love need look no further. God has put opportunities to love and care all around us.
- Nan Sea Love
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
- Jean Cocteau
I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
-Gilda Radner
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long."
- Walt Whitman
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because you lap is warmer.
- Alfred North Whitehead
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
- James Herriot
If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.
- Martin Delany
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse.
- Walt Disney
If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
- Francis of Assisi
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
- Edward Hoagland
In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
- Warren Eckstein
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.
- Haile Selassie
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
- Hippolyte Taine
Animal Quotes I by Anonymous
If you think that something small cannot make a difference - try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.
- Anonymous
If you want a kitten, start out asking for a horse.
- Anonymous
Animal Quotes K
Kindness and compassion toward all living things is the mark of a civilized society.
- Cesar Chavez
Animal Quotes L
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
- Dalai Lama
Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem.
- Benjamin Hoff
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Animal Quotes M
Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail…
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and visa versa, and often simultaneously.
- Louis J. Camuti
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating -- and he knows when to stop working.
- Harry S. Truman
My little dog -- a heartbeat at my feet..
- Edith Wharton
Animal Quotes N
Never try to outstubborn a cat.
- Lazarus Long
No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.
- Louis Sabin
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
- Christopher Morley
Non-violence begins with the fork.
- Elizabeth Frians
Animal Quotes N by Anonymous
No heaven will not ever Heaven be; Unless my cats are there to welcome me.
- Anonymous
Animal Quotes O
Of all the things I miss from veterinary practice, puppy breath is one of the most fond memories!
- Dr. Tom Cat
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.
- Joe Gores
Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well.
- Bonnie Wilcox
One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children.
- Jane Goodall
One cat just leads to another.
- Ernest Hemingway
Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.
- Milan Kundera
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
- Albert Einstein
Animal Quotes O by Anonymous
One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why
- Anonymous
Animal Quotes T
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
- Andrew A. Rooney
The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.
- Christine Stevens
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
- Saint John Chrystostom
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.
- Rudyard Kipling
The dog represents all that is best in man.
- Etienne Charlet
The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too.
- Samuel Butler
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into.
- Bruce Schimmel
The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer
- Paula Poundstone
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.
- Evan Esar
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
- Hippocrates
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.
- George Bernard Shaw
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
- Ben Williams
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
- Robert Lynd
There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.
- Wesley Bates
Time spent with cats is never wasted.
- Sigmund Freud
To err is human, to purr, feline.
- Robert Byrne
Animal Quotes T by Anonymous
The cat has nine lives: three for playing, three for straying, three for staying
- Anonymous
The zoo is a place for animals to study the behaviour of human beings.
- Anonymous
There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats.
- Anonymous
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
- Anonymous
This house is owned & operated solely for the comfort & convenience of the CATS!
- Anonymous
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten it.
- Anonymous
To err is human, to forgive, canine.
- Anonymous
Animal Quotes U
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
- Anatole France
Animal Quotes W
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
- Immanuel Kant
What is a man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die form great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to man.
- Chief Seattle
Whatever you do unto the least of my brothers, you do it unto me.
- Matthew 25:40
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
- Montaigne
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
- Theophile Gautier
Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies.
- Gene Hill
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
- Robert A. Heinlein
You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!
- Dave Barry
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
- Nora Ephron
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
When I lost my way, I was accustomed to throw the reins on his neck, and he always discovered places where I, with all my observation and boasted superior knowledge, could not.
- Napoleon Bonaparte speaking of Marengo, his horse
When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her.
- Montaigne
Animal Quotes Y
You become responsible forever for what you have tamed.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!
- Dave Barry
You cannot look at a sleeping cat and feel tense.
- Jane Pauley
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
- Nora Ephron
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Animal Quotes C
Animal Quotes D
Animal Quotes M
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