Pet Quotes, Sayings about Animals

Whoever said diamonds are a girl’s best friend obviously never owned a dog.

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
– Murray Banks

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
– Mahatma Gandhi

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it’s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
– Ellen DeGeneres

Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.
– George Bernard Shaw

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
– Anatole France

Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.
– William S. Gilbert

We all love animals. Why do we call some “pets” and others “dinner?”

Happiness is a warm puppy.
– Charles M. Schulz

Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot little puppies.
– Gene Hill

My goal in life is to be as good of a person as my dog already things I am.

I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
– Abraham Lincoln

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
– Roger Caras

The purity of a person’s heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals.

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

A dog may be a man’s best friend but a horse made history.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
– George Eliot

The best thing about animals is that they don’t talk much.
– Thornton Wilder

A house is not a home without a pet.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
– Robert Louis Stevenson

But if we stop loving animals, aren’t we bound to stop loving humans too?
– Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
– Samuel Butler

My little dog – – a heartbeat at my feet.
– Edith Wharton

An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.
– Martin Buber

My tiger is my best friend. After the cage is closed.

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

I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
– Mark Twain

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
– Elias Canetti

Man, unlike animals, has never learned that the sole purpose in life is to enjoy it.
– Samuel Butler