Animals Quotes

"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."

"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

"Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success."

"The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society."

"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."

"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."

"A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them."

"A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house."

"My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere."

"I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan."

"A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip."

"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things."

"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."

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs."

"I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone."

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."

"It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that."

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."