Dog Quotes

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


“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
Abraham Lincoln


"To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace."
Milan Kundera


“A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.”
Buddha



"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien."
Plato


The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry.
French Proverb


Mark Twain on Dogs

"By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a "noble" animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward- you will never get her full confidence again."


"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's."

"If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man."

"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."

“If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”

Cats Quotes

It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.
Robley Wilson, Jr.

It's really the cat's house - we just pay the mortgage.

I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as she delicately combs it with her rough pink tongue. "Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it." She looks up and gives me her full gaze. "Don't be ridiculous," she purrs, "I wrote it."
Dilys Laing, "Miao"

One cat just leads to another.
Ernest Hemingway

One must love a cat on its own terms.
Paul Gray

Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods.
P.G. Wodehouse

Some people say man is the most dangerous animal on the planet. Obviously those people have never met an angry cat.
Lillian Johnson

Cats are to dogs what modern people are to the people we used to have. Cats are slimmer, cleaner, more attractive, disloyal, and lazy. It's easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities they do. Cats are irresponsible and recognize no authority, yet are completely dependent on others for their material needs. Cats cannot be made to do anything useful. Cats are mean for the fun of it. In fact, cats possess so many of the same qualities as some people (expensive girlfriends, for instance) that it's often hard to tell the people and the cats apart. P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners