Top 100 Pet Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best pet quotes ever written, picked out of the full pet archive on QuoteForever. You will find Mason Cooley, Fred Schwab, Ingrid Newkirk and Margaret Mitchell among them.

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1

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

2

We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

3

I never met a pet I didn't like.

4

I made it to the childbearing phase without TV dependence, then looked around and thought, Well gee, why start now? Why get a pet python on the day you decide to raise fuzzy little gerbils?

5

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

6

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

7

I don't have any pets, so I get to walk around the house naked. So I'm more free.

8

Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

9

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.

10

Animals were my pets, and the thought of eating my pets freaked me out.

11

places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?

12

I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.

13

So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can’t be a good thing.

14

I surround myself with loyalists and people that I would die for. I just would rather die than make bad stuff for people because I'm a terrible dishwasher and a terrible lover and a terrible pet owner.

15

On one tour, I was collecting stories about pet monkeys. You'd be surprised how many people have stories about monkeys. The problem is, most monkey stories end tragically.

16

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

17

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

18

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

19

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

20

I had a little dog and my dog was very small....Of all the treasures that were mine, I loved him most of all.

21

A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin.

22

A sleeping cat is ever alert.

23

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

24

Who said you can not buy happiness, when you are thinking about puppies.

25

Heartbreak is life educating us.

26

Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?

27

I think having pets helps sensitize people to the natural world.

28

I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's Blue Velvet. But when it's done poorly, it feels like shooting fish in a barrel, just saying, "Ooh, scary suburbs."

29

You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.

30

Where did you get your haircut, the pet shop?

31

Men will be just to men when they are kind to animals.

32

The dog is the god of frolic.

33

Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.

34

I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.

35

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

36

I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

37

To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.

38

A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.

39

Children all over the world consort quite naturally with animals. They don't see any dividing line. That is something they have to be taught, just as they have to be taught it is all right to kill and eat them.

40

Fang and I searched in every way we could think of and found a million institutes of one kind or another, in Manhattan and throughout New York state, but none of them seemed promising. My favorite? The Institute for Realizing Your Pet's Inner Potential. Anyone who can explain that to me, drop a line.

41

I do have a couple of pets, but I am determined to keep them out of the media spotlight.

42

A Chihuahua. They're good. If you lose one, just empty out your purse.

43

Sweet bleedin’ Christ,” Bones interrupted. “Try not to let this turn you into a Ghost Whisperer, hmm? Adopting Fabian is one thing, but we’re already turning away spooks by the dozen. If you want another pet, we’ll get you more cats.

44

My cat, Andy, has been my best buddy since I was 18, and he doesn't care if I'm on a TV show or if I'm red-carpet ready. He just likes it when I'm there.

45

The biggest dog has been a pup.

46

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

47

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

48

Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in software than almost anything else.

49

My most treasured possessions are not things; they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts.

50

I tucked him in with his stuffed-animal pet dog—cleverly named Dog-Dog, by the way.

51

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

52

I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.

53

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

54

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

55

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

56

And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.

57

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

58

I met my first turkey at an animal sanctuary in 2000. The sanctuary owner brought out a turkey named Olivia who had been rescued from a factory farm. As I sat on the grass and reached out to pet her, she climbed into my lap and fell asleep. I was flabbergasted and charmed.

59

So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.

60

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

61

I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.

62

The fidelity of a dog is a precious gift.

63

The history of English is full of that, lots of things done with good intentions that 200 years down the road have resulted in a giant mess, where someone's pet peeves - like John Dryden and his hatred of terminal prepositions - could become real standards.

64

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

65

Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

66

Hey! You can be more than just a car company. You can be more than just a pet food company. You can aspire to loving dogs, rather than just feeding dogs.

67

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

68

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

69

The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

70

Every year the hunters shot cows and horses and family pets and each other. And unbelievably, they sometimes shot themselves, perhaps in a psychotic episode where they mistook themselves for dinner

71

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

72

If you think about the times in life when you've been the most deeply fulfilled, they're the times that you've felt love. Whether it's watching a sunset, spending time with a pet or being with a partner with whom you feel an intensely deep connection.

73

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

74

you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

75

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

76

The public hardly suspects that their purchase of cosmetics, pet food, toothpaste, eggs and other common items have, in all likelihood, caused some form of animal suffering.

77

As with all my new pets, I gently bit each kitten on the face. This is how I let my animals know that I am now their mother.

78

Within 10 years computers won't even keep us as pets.

79

A good dog never dies.

80

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

81

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

82

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

83

A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.

84

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

85

When we admit our vulnerability, we include others. If we deny it, we shut them out.

86

To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them as if they were household pets.

87

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

88

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

89

There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.

90

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

91

Women if you want to realise yourselves - you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval - all your pet illusions must be unmasked - the lies of centuries have got to go - are you prepared for the Wrench?

92

If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.

93

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

94

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

95

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

96

I do not have any pets. We travel too much.

97

Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

98

It's fundamental that what we do only exists in our own universe. When you like Pet Shop Boys, you are in our world.

99

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

100

It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

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