151 private quotes tagged pet

“Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.”— Rod McKuen

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”— Albert Schweitzer

“The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.”— Ogden Nash

“The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.”— Nicholas D. Kristof

“Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.”— Jim Davis

“I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!”— Jane Siberry

“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”— Joseph Wood Krutch

“Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.”— Thornton Wilder

“People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.”— August Strindberg

“I've always been mad about cats.”— Vivien Leigh

“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”— Roger Caras

“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.”— Milan Kundera

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”— Andy Rooney

“I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.”— Juliette Lewis

“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.”— Max Eastman

“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.”— Rita Rudner

“One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.”— Al Yankovic

“If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.”— Doug Coupland

“A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.”— Robert Southey

“Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.”— William S. Burroughs

“If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.”— Alfred North Whitehead

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.”— Bernard Williams

“Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.”— Joseph Wood Krutch

“There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.”— Dick Dale

“I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.”— Marie Corelli