- Time spent with cats is never wasted.
Unknown
- To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Aldous Huxley
- Cats have a scam going – you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that’s the deal.
Eddie Izzard
- The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci
- Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Milan Kundera
- Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P. J. O’Rourke
- There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
Bernard Williams
- There’s a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.
Dick Dale
- I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Jean Cocteau
- Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
Quentin Tarantino
- The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don’t buy love for nothing.
William S. Burroughs
- A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
Billy Graham
- 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
- Dogs are my favorite people.
Richard Dean Anderson
- I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don’t betray each other.
Taylor Caldwell
- A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.
Norman Ralph Augustine
- The dog is the god of frolic.
Henry Ward Beecher
- A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
Robert Benchley
- If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
Fran Lebowitz
- I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner
- I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
Hippolyte Taine
- The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.
James Thurber
- Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis
- Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.
Robert Wagner
- 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.
Alfred North Whitehead
- Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.
Rod McKuen
- Just watching my cats can make me happy.
Paula Cole
- You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
Jane Goodall
- Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
Garrison Keillor
- I was a dog in a past life. Really. I’ll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.
William H. Macy
- I’m looking more like my dogs every day – it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.
Christine McVie
- Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch
- I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It’s not. Mine had me trained in two days.
Bill Dana
- Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way.
Caroline Knapp
- There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn’t stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.
Angus Young
- I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.
Nafisa Joseph
- Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.
Martha Scott
- Cats are very independent animals. They’re very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They’re familiar. They’re obedient.You call a cat, you go, ‘Cat, come here.’ He doesn’t come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They’re very free animals, and I like that.
Antonio Banderas
- Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
Michael Morpurgo
- Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
Mason Cooley
- Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat’s ear.
Earl Derr Biggers
- The cat is a dilettante in fur.
Theophile Gautier
- It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
Agnes Repplier
- People who keep dogs are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.
August Strindberg
- The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
Bob Hope
- One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
Andrew Weil
- Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they’ve had their pets spayed or neutered.
Bob Barker
- A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that’s the closest species we have.
Cesar Millan
- Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul – chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we’re the greatest hunters on earth!
Anne Tyler
- Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.
James Herriot
- What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
Rodney Dangerfield