Quotations about Dogs
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog
has a problem.
- - - Edward Abbet
The dog was created especially for children.
He is the god of frolic.
- - - Henry Ward Beecher "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit"
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance,
and to turn around three times before lying down.
- - - Robert Benchley
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves
you more than you love yourself.
- - - Josh Billings
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
Every dog has his day.
- - - Miguel de Cervantes
What counts is not necessarily the size of the
dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- - - Dwight D. Eisenhower
The dog is mentioned in the Bible eighteen times
-- the cat not even once.
- - - W. E. Farbstein
The silent dog is the first to bite.
- - - German Proverb
You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck
to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and
its attitude is, "What's in it for me?"
- - - Lewis Grizzard
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 "Dogs and the Tug of Life"
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the
constant popularity of dogs.
- - - Aldous Huxley
Pet a dog where he can't scratch and he'll always
be your friend.
- - - Orville Mars
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
- - - Groucho Marx
No one appreciates the very special genius of
your conversation as a dog does.
- - - Christopher Morley
Dogs display reluctance and wrath
If you try to give them a bath
They bury bones in hideaways
And half the time they trot sideaways.
- - - Ogden Nash
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong
side of.
- - - Ogden Nash
Thus every dog at last will have his day -
He who this morning smiled, at night may sorrow;
The grub today's a butterfly tomorrow.
- - - Peter Pindar
I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?
- - - Alexander Pope
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside
of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
- - - Eleanor H. Porter "Pollyanna" 1912
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.
- - - Jeanne-Marie Roland
If dogs could talk it would take a lot of fun
out of owning one.
- - - Andy Rooney
The average dog is a nicer person than the average
person.
- - - Andy Rooney
That indefatigable and unsavory engine of pollution,
the dog.
- - - John Sparrow
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards
who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
- - - August Strindberg
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling
man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged
a dog down to his.
- - - James Thurber
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- - - Harry S Truman
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous,
he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between
a dog and a man.
- - - Mark Twain
My little old dog:
A heart-beat at my feet.
- - - Edith Wharton
Quotations about Cats
Cats names are more for human benefit. They
give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal
belongs to you.
- - - Alan Ayckbourn "Table Manners"
Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided
by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic
circle.
- - - Ambrose Bierce
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message
and get back to you.
- - - Mary Bly
The real measure of a day's heat is the length
of a sleeping cat.
- - - Charles J. Brady
A cat isn't fussy - just so long as you remember
he likes his milk in the shallow, rose-patterned saucer and
his fish on the blue plate. From which he will take it, and
eat it off the floor.
- - - Arthur Bridges
Most cats, when they are Out want to be In,
and vice versa, and often simultaneously.
- - - Dr Louis J. Camuti
I love cats because I love my home and after
a while they become its visible soul.
- - - Jean Cocteau
There are no ordinary cats.
- - - Colette
Authors like cats because they are such quiet,
lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same
reasons.
- - - Robertson Davies
Cat-lovers will no doubt point out that the
elegance and dignity of cats are the consequence of their
sojourn in the temples of the gods, where their attitudes
and movements were regarded as divine prognostications. Be
that as it may, it is obvious that the cat's wealth of expressions
make it an ideal candidate for such a role. Unlike the dog,
which either wags its tail or does not wag its tail, the cat
possesses a wide range of means to convey its emotions: It
arches its back, makes its fur stand on end, meows, rubs itself
against furniture and against humans, purrs, lashes its tail,
spits, and hisses. The priests of Bacht, therefore, had ample
material for interpretation.
- - - Philippe Diolé, French biologist. "At the Service
of the Heart"
Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil,
and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as
well.
- - - Missy Dizick
Before a cat will condescend
To treat you as a trusted friend,
Some little token of esteem
Is needed, like a dish of cream.
- - - T. S. Eliot
When a Cat adopts you there is nothing to be
done about it except to put up with it until the wind changes.
- - - T. S. Eliot
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down
rat holes with baited breath.
- - - W. C. Fields
The cat is a dilettante in fur.
- - - Theophile Gautier
Cats were put into the world to disprove the
dogma that all things were created to serve man.
- - - Paul Gray
What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a
cat.
- - - Gail Hamilton
Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs
and patronizes human beings.
- - - Oliver Herford
Some people say man is the most dangerous animal
on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry
cat.
- - - Lillian Johnson
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything
in nature has a purpose.
- - - Garrison Keillor
If cats could talk, they would lie to you.
- - - Rob Kopack
The cat could very well be man's best friend
but would never stoop to admitting it.
- - - Doug Larson
If a fish is the movement of water embodied,
given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
- - - Doris Lessing "Particularly Cats"
No matter how much cats fight, there always
seem to be plenty of kittens.
- - - Abraham Lincoln
I gave my cat a bath the other day ... they
love it. He sat there, he enjoyed it, it was fun for me. The
fur would stick to my tongue, but other than that . . .
- - - Steve Martin
There has never been a cat
Who couldn't calm me down
By walking slowly
Past my chair
- - - Rod McKuen
When the tea is brought at five o'clock
And all the neat curtains are drawn with care,
The little black cat with bright green eyes
Is suddenly purring there.
- - - Harold Monro "Milk for the Cat"
When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not
a pastime for her more than she is to me?
- - - Michel deMontaigne
Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, where have you been?
I've been to London to look at the Queen.
Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, what did you there?
I frightened a little mouse under the chair.
- - - Mother Goose
The trouble with a kitten is that...
Eventually....
It becomes a cat!
- - - Ogden Nash
Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the
people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive,
disloyal, and lazy....Cats are irresponsible and recognize
no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their
material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful.
Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so
many of the same qualities as some people (expensive girlfriends,
for instance) that it's often hard to tell the people and
the cats apart.
- - - P. J. O'Rourke
A cat pours his body on the floor like water.
- - - William Lyon Phelps
Cats are a waste of fur.
- - - Rita Rudner
When the cat's away, chances are he's been run
over.
- - - Michael Sanders
There are two means of refuge from the misery
of life - music and cats.
- - - Albert Schweitzer
One is never sure, watching two cats washing
each other, whether it's affection, the taste, or a trial
run for the jugular.
- - - Helen Thomson
One of the most striking differences between
a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
- - - Mark Twain
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight
cats to pull a sled through snow.
- - - Jeff Valdez
It is impossible to keep a straight face in
the presence of one or more kittens.
- - - Cynthia E. Varnado
A dog is a man's best friend. A cat is a cat's
best friend.
- - - Robert J. Vogel
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
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