Pet Quotes

“My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.”

-- Maggie Stiefvater

“Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.”

-- Jim Davis

“Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.”

-- Oliver Herford

“Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.”

-- John Peers

“My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.”

-- Billy Connolly

“I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.”

-- Cher

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.”

-- Abraham Lincoln

“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”

-- Anatole France

“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”

-- Edgar Allan Poe

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

-- Robert A. Heinlein