Quotes and Sayings about Animals
If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?
Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.
- George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is a warm puppy.
- Charles M. Schulz
The purity of a person’s heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Eliot
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshiped as Gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
I don’t believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
- Gary Larson
In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
- Warren Eckstein
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
- Murray Banks
Man, unlike animals, has never learned that the sole purpose in life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler
But if we stop loving animals, aren’t we bound to stop loving humans too?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
- Samuel Butler
You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
- Paul McCartney
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Non- violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
- Thomas A. Edison
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
- Mark Twain
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
- Roger Caras
