"Never try to outstubborn a cat."
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
-- Immanuel Kant
"If you want a kitten, start out asking for a horse."
-- Unknown
"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 'Old Dogs, Old Friends'
"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies."
-- Gene Hill
"The more people I meet the more I like my dog"
-- Unknown
"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
"A cat sees us as the dogs...A cat sees himself as the human."
-- Unknown
"If you yell at a cat, you're the one who is making a fool of yourself."
-- Unknown
"At night he [the cat] sleeps sprawled at the foot of my bed, where he snores reassuringly until about five in the morning. That's when he gets cuddly: with white paw - claws retracted - he pats my face until I open my eyes. The fact that I then throw him out and slam the door in his face doesn't bother him."
-- Cathryn Jakobson
"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace."
-- Milan Kundera
"A cat sneezing is a good omen for everyone who hears it."
-- Italian Superstition
"A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person."
-- Mugsy Peabody
"God created domestic cats so that men might touch tigers."
-- D.A.N
"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
"Fish are supposed to be brain food, and yet people eat it on Friday and then do the silliest things over the weekend."
-- Unknown
"It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see."
-- Eleanor Farjeon
"You do not own a dog, the dog owns you."
-- Unknown
"Meow is like aloha -- it can mean anything."
-- Hank Ketchum
"I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'"
-- Margo Kaufman
"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."
-- R.E. Shay
"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
"In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats."
-- English Proverb
"No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich."
-- Louis Sabin
"Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of ther universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made."
-- Roger Caras
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
-- Christopher Morley
"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
-- Andrew A. Rooney
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
-- Unknown
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
-- Mark Twain
"People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life."
-- Faith Resnick
"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
"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that is how dogs spend their lives."
-- Sue Murphy
"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"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
"If you don't mind throwing tennis balls for eternity, I do have an opening in doggie heaven."
-- Frank and Ernest comic strip, an angel at St. Peter's gate, to a man seeking admittance
"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.."
-- Henry Wheeler Shaw
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
-- Woodrow Wilson
"A piece of grass a day keeps the vet away"
-- Unknown Dog
"The difference between cats and dogs is, dogs come when they are called, cats take a message and get back to you."
-- Unknown
"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it."
-- Samuel Butler
"The great 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
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
-- Ann Landers
"A dog is a dog except when he is facing you. Then he is Mr. Dog."
-- Haitian Farmer
"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."
-- Dereke Bruce, Taipei, Taiwan
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
-- Ben Williams
"Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their object-relations."
-- Sigmund Freud
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole."
-- Roger Caras
"Heaven will not ever Heaven be unless my pets are there to welcome me."
-- Epitaph in Pet Cemetery
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
-- Gandhi
"If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around."
-- cowboy wisdom
"If people were superior to animals, they'd take better care of the world."
-- Winnie the Pooh
"When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'"
-- Rudyard Kipling"My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing."
-- Lonzo Idolswine
"I used to look at [my dog] Smokey and think, 'If you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking,' and he'd look at me like he was saying, 'If you were a little smarter, I wouldn't have to.'"
-- Fred Jungclaus
"Cat's Motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it."
-- Unknown
"Always behave like a duck -- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."
-- Jacob Braude
"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
-- James Bryant Conant
"Do not remove a fly from a friend's forehead with a chopstick."
-- Unknown
"Cat bathing (the ability to bath a cat) is a martial art."
-- Unknown
"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 your lap is warmer."
-- Alfred North Whitehead
"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself."
-- Josh Billings
"One reason a dog is such a lovable creature is his tail wags instead of his tongue."
-- Unknown
"My goal in life is to become as wonderful as my dog thinks I am."
-- Toby & Eileen Green
"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
-- Unknown
"To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction--and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by."
-- Stephen Baker
"Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off."
-- Michael Nelson
"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job."
-- Franklin P. Jones
"No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."
-- Will Rogers
"You may have a dog that won't sit up, roll over or even cook breakfast, not because she's too stupid to learn how but because she's too smart to bother."
-- Rick Horowitz, Chicago Tribune
"To err is human, to forgive, canine."
-- Unknown
"I spilled spot remover on my dog. He's gone now."
-- Steven Wright
"Some days you're the dog, some days you're the hydrant."
-- Unknown
