The difference between friends and pets is that friends we
allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. ~Robert Brault
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
Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions,
they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains
unawakened. ~Anatole France
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a
person with pets. ~Nora Ephron
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Quotes On Animals ~Martin Buber
Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen,
though.... That's the problem. ~Benjamin Hoff
It is an important and popular fact that things are not
always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always
assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so
much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever
done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the
dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for
precisely the same reasons. ~Douglas Adams
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals
who returned the questionnaire. ~Robert Brault
The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner.
~Hebrew Proverb
The long-suspected meanings
of rustlings, chirps, and growls!
Soliloquies of forests!
The epic hoots of owls!
Those crafty hedgehogs drafting
aphorisms after dark,
while we blindly believe
they're sleeping in the park!
~Wisława Szymborska
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the
clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to
instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant
ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over
their wills. ~Voltaire
[H]e doesn't reckon his dog has human feelings, but he sure
lets you know when you hurt his instincts. ~Robert Brault
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a
cat or dog than to any human being. ~Henry David Thoreau
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
~Colette
Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it's
easy to forget they're not gifted with the English language and then get
snubbed when we talk to them and they don't say anything back. ~Stephenie Geist
I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right
to the gentle stroke of a human hand. ~Robert Brault
Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has
anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt
it. ~Robert Brault
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the
"lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and
dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. ~Mark Twain
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs
treat us as equals. ~Winston Churchill
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends
to call instinct. ~Robert Brault
I subscribe to the theory that Mankind never domesticated
any animal. They came in from the cold and looked cute until they were fed.
~David Beard
There is a drop of blood in the snow before me.... The
coyote... is in estrus.... spurred to let out a bit of herself, sending a
message, telling everyone she was now ready, that the clock of her winter was
ticking toward spring. Quotes On Animals ~Craig Childs
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness
of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All
things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.
~Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe
It is a perversely human perception that animals in their
native habitat are running wild. ~Robert Brault
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For
deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
~Isaac Asimov
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