Quotes About Pets. Pets Quotes, More Woof than Meow!

"All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it."
Samuel Butler

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
Anatole France

"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections,
predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal.
Difficult standards for people to live up to."
Alfred A. Montapert (American motivational author)

Quotes about pets, Pet quotes - dogs...man's best friend.

A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself."
Josh Billings

Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window!
Steve Bluestone

"A dog has lots of friends because he wags his tail and not his tongue."
Anonymous

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
Andrew A. Rooney

And Birds

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song."
Chinese saying

More Quotes about Pets - cats...independence personified

When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
Montaigne

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

"God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the lion."
Fernand Mery

"No heaven will ever Heaven be Unless my cats are there to welcome me."
Epitaph in a pet cemetery

"There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion."
Christopher Smart

"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort."
James Herriot

"When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger,
and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle."
Sarah Orne

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

Quotes about pets - the horse...

A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.
Gerald Raferty

A lovely horse is always an experience.... It is an emotional experience of the kind that is spoiled by words.
Beryl Markham

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
Pam Brown

The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.
Sharon Ralls Lemon

All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day
Author Unknown

Feeling down? Saddle up.
Author Unknown

To be loved by a horse, or by any animal, should fill us with awe-for we have not deserved it.
Marion Garretty

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