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 There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. Ben Williams Dogs are not our whole lives, but they make our lives whole. Roger Caras You think dogs will not be in Heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. Robert Louis Stevenson There are three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise. Welsh Proverb Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job. Franklin P. Jones The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril - without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. Alice Walker Dogs come when they're called; Cats take a message and get back to you. Missy Dizick and Mary Bly No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. Fran Lebowitz You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. Nora Ephron Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. Agnes Repplier 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 Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain Odd things animals. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down to you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal. Winston Churchill A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. Mary Allen All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow. Samuel Butler Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God. Charles Kuralt Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. Joseph Wood Krutch Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. James Bryant Conant Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. James Bryant Conant Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. Anonymous Every animal knows more than you do. Native American Proverb Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. Anonymous You don't have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the slowest guy running from the bear. Anonymous I know at last what distinguishes man from animals - financial worries. Romain Roland 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 I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that. W. Dayton Wedgefarth A dog is not almost human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such. John Holmes Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Ann Landers If you can't decide between a Shepherd, a Setter, or a Poodle, get them all - adopt a mutt! ASPCA We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one's family. Chief Seattle Our task must be to free ourselves - by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Albert Einstein We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos. Bob Barker There can be no justification for causing suffering to animals simply to serve man's pleasure or simply to enhance man's lifestyle. The Dean of York Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures. His Holiness The Dalai Lama Cruelty is a fashion statement we can all do without. Rue McClanahan Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind. Henry Bergh It is man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. Albert Einstein The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity. George Bernard Shaw When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport. When a tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity. George Bernard Shaw Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one the possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures, but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. Mark Twain I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. Abraham Lincoln The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. Ashley Montagu Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living things, we are still savages. Thomas A. Edison I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans. Jimmy Stewart Poor animals. How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies - that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself. T. Casey Brennan The question is not, can they reason? Can they talk? But rather, can they suffer? Jeremy Bentham The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Gandhi In the beginning god created man, but seeing him so feeble, he gave him the dog. Toussenel Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. Josh Billings Cat's Motto: No matter what you've done wrong, always try to make it look like the dog did it. Unknown The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. Alice Walker The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even toward man. Children should from the beginning be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings. John Locke [return to top]