Pet Quotes | Sayings on the Bond with 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

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

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

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

Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you..I loved you so- ’twas Heaven here with you.
– Isla Paschal Richardson

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

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

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

The awkward moment when you realize Valentines day is approaching fast and the only one who loves you is your pet.

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

Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love, they depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs your heart is very big.
– Erica Jong

Dogs lives are too short…their only fault, really.
– Agnes Sligh Turnbull

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

Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.
– Gene Hill

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

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

When we think of those companions who traveled by our side down life’s road, let us not say with sadness that they left us behind, but rather say with gentle gratitude that they once were with us.

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

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

Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.
– Elvis Presley

A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
– Samuel Butler

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
– Rodney Dangerfield

Happiness is a warm puppy.
– Charles M. Schulz

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

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

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

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don’t betray each other.

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.
– James Cromwell

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

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
– Dean Koontz

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

You can own a dog, but you can’t own a cat, it owns you.

A house is not a home without a pet.

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

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

We all love animals. Why do we call some ‘pets’ and others ‘dinner?’
– K.D. Lang

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

The problem with loving is that pets don’t last long enough and people last too long.
– E.E. Cummings

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

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

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

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

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

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.”
– Amy Sedaris

A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.
– Hazel Nicholson

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

If nudity of the body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.

In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.
– Warren Eckstein

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
– Brigitte Bardot

Four legs good, two legs bad.
– George Orwell

Our pets are our family.
– Ana Monnar

The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner.

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed.
For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a dog.
– Charles M. Schulz

No one can understand the profound love you had for your pet until their soul is awakened by the same love

I hate a word like pets: it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.
– Elizabeth Jennings

The trouble with loving is that pets don’t last long enough and people last too long.

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they’ve had their pets spayed or neutered.
– Bob Barker

Pretending to die in front of your pet, to see if it tries to save you.

Thank goodness pets can’t talk, they all know too much.

I don’t understand people who don’t touch their pets. Their cat or dog is called a pet for a reason.?”
– Jarod Kintz

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
– Colette

Forcing your pets to spend time with you by closing the door.

Sometimes, your pet picks you.
– Julie Wenzel

I just want someone to love me as much as I love my Pet.

The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.
– Ben Hur Lampman

If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people.
– James Thurber

That moment of heartbreak when your pet jumps off your bed and leaves the room.

A beloved pet is never gone; they’ll have a place in your heart forever.

A dog wags his tail with his heart.
– Martin Buxbaum

A pet is never truly forgotten until it is no longer remembered.
– Lacie Petitto

If there is no God for thee Then there is no God for me.
– Anna Hempstead Branch

People really do spend a lot of money on their pets – sometimes more then themselves.
– Oksana Baiul

There’s nothing else I would rather do, unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for money.
– Kat Dennings

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.
– Dave Barry

That one true heart was left behind!? What feeling do we ever find,? to equal among human kind?, a dog’s fidelity!?
-Thomas Hardy

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