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Ever consider what pets must think of us? I
mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing
haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest
hunters on earth! ~Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they
pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person
with pets. ~Nora Ephron
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. ~Martin
Buber
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what
they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed
that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved
so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the
dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good
time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they
were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.
~Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though....
That's the problem. ~Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. ~Hebrew
Proverb
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock
strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians
to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome
and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no
one starts lawsuits over their wills. ~Voltaire, letter to Count
Schomberg, 31 August 1769
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog
than to any human being. ~Henry David Thoreau
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. ~Colette
Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it's easy to
forget they're not gifted with the English language and then get
snubbed when we talk to them and they don't say anything back. ~Stephenie
Geist
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, Letters from the Earth, 1907
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us
as equals. ~Winston Churchill
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness
of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the
man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls
the sons of the Earth. ~Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe, letter
to President Franklin Pierce
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and
nature, "human" might be the greater insult. ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac
Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
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Quotations about Animals & Pets