Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Pets Quotes
Shakespeare, Robert Heinlein, Jane Goodall, John Heywood and Mark Twain share the top places. Twain, in What Is Man? (1906), is withering about man’s vanity in calling an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Bertrand Russell, in 1948, points out that a dog cannot relate his autobiography or tell you that his parents were honest but poor, and Bierce’s definition of a cat is an automaton to be kicked when things go wrong at home.
Three lines are flagged. “Time spent with cats is never wasted,” credited to Sigmund Freud, is marked misattributed. A remark that a cat cannot hide its feelings is credited to Hemingway and disputed, and so is a saying about religion being like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat, credited to Oscar Wilde.
All animals are equal — but some animals are more equal than others.
Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.
We will one day think it as horrible to eat animals as we now think it horrible to eat each other.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.
The good salesman combines the tenacity of a bulldog with the manners of a spaniel.
I am his Highness' Dog at Kew;
Pray tell me Sir, whose Dog are you?
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
O, ’tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies!