Pet Quotes

These pet quotes are some of my personal favorites and always make me realize how important pets are in our lives and how much they help us heal. They give us so much unconditional love. The pet quotes below are listed in no particular order. Enjoy and create some cute pet art using these and other pet quotes.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
-Robertson Davies

Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.
–Jacquelyn Mitchard

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.
- Ellen Perry Berkeley

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then, moves on.
-Carl Sandburg

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.
-Ben Williams

To escort a cat on a leash is against the nature of the cat.
-Adlai Stevenson

Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart? They will not inconvenience themselves to the slightest degree.
-Dr. Louis J. Camuti

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
-Christopher Morley

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
–Jeff Valdez

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.
-William Lyon Phelps

You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats
-Colonial American Proverb

The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals.-James ThurberI like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
-Winston Churchill

Every dog has his day.
-Miguel de Cervantes

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
-Samuel Butler

The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.
-Henry Ward Beecher

Dogs and cats instinctively know the exact moment their owners will wake up. Then they wake them 10 minutes sooner.
-Unknown

There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing; and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience.
-Allen and Ivy Dodd

You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!'
-Dave Barry

Cats seem to go on the principle that is never does any harm to ask for what you want.
-Joseph Wood Krutch

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
-Robert A. Heinlein

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. 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

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
-Dereke Bruce

I used to look at [my dog] Smokey and think,If you were a little smarter you could tell me what you were thinking,' and he'd look at me like he was saying, 'If you were a little smarter, I wouldn't have to.
-Fred Jungclaus

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
-Will Cuppy

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
-Will Rogers

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
-Cowboy Wisdom

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as a dog does.
-Christopher Morley

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
-Immanuel Kant

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
-Harry S Truman

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.
-Gilda Radner

The cat Bastet sat perched on the rim of the tub, watching me through slitted golden eyes. She was fascinated by baths. I suppose total immersion in water must have seemed to her a peculiar method of cleansing oneself.
-Elizabeth Peters

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
-Colette

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why.
-Unknown

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.
-Jean Jacques Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
-Rita Rudner

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatsoever, and generally stopping before it gets there.
-Agnes Repplier

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about puppies.
-Gene Hill

A cat is there when you call her - if she doesn't have something better to do.
-Bill Adler

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
-Robert Benchley

There are no ordinary cats.
-Colette

I think it would be great to be a cat! You come and go as you please. People always feed and pet you. They don't expect much of you. You can play with them, and when you've had enough, you go away. You can pick and choose who you want to be around. You can't ask for more than that.
-Patricia McPherson

Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
- Unknown

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
-Leonardo Da Vinci

In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.
-English proverb

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
-Unknown

Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods.Cats have never forgotten this.
-Unknown

My little old dog: A heart-beat at my feet.
-Edith Wharton

A dog wags its tail with its heart.
-Martin Buxbaum

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
-Abraham Lincoln

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

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

We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made.
-M. Facklam

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
-Edward Hoagland

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

Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.
-Mary Bly