Pet Quotes
823 Pet quotes by 609 unique authors
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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be…
— Mark Twain
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All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a…
— Charles M. Schulz
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You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep...
— Harper Lee
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You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
— Paul McCartney
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Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your…
— Angela Carter
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I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting…
— Mark Twain
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To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A canter is the cure for all evil.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
— Mark Twain
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Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust.…
— Roger Caras
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Some marriages are made in heaven, Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell…
— Tom Robbins
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As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in…
— William S. Burroughs
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I don't have pet peeves like some people. I have whole kennels of irritation.
— Whoopi Goldberg
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She pulls away, pats me on the shoulder with three mini-pats, like those used to pet reptiles.
— Dave Eggers
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A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.
— Ernest Hemingway
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There are no ordinary cats.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Attention is love, what we must give children, mothers, fathers, pets, our friends, the news, the woes of others. What we want to change we…
— Marge Piercy
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When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals' emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest…
— Marc Bekoff
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We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they…
— Anna Sewell
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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…
— Dalai Lama
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...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you. Someone whose touch…
— Toni Morrison
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Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!
— Christopher Paul Curtis
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What greater gift than the love of a cat.
— Charles Dickens
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Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's…
— Mark Twain
Who Wrote These Pet Quotes
609 authors contributed a total of 823 Pet Quotes, led by these top contributors: