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General Quotes

Love all God's creatures, the animals, the plants. Love everything to perceive the Divine mystery in all. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hold a true friend with both hands - African Proverb

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. - Charles Darwin

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul. - Pythagoras

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. - Albert Einstein

A faithful friend is the medicine of life - Old Proverb

Truly, as companions, friends, equals, in opportunities of self expression, they unfold to me the dignity of creation and their joy smiles the blessings of St Francis - Helen Keller

Men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You remain responsible forever for what you have tamed. - Antoine De Saint-Exupry, "The Little Prince"

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

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a high mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it. - St Francis of Assisi

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies - Aristotle

Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principal. For the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept the Lakota safe among them, and so close did some of the Lakota come to their feathered and furred friends that in true brotherhood they spoke a common tongue. - Chief Luther Standing Bear

When you love every creature, you will understand the mystery of God in created things. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Compassion is the highest form of human existence. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of something else. - Moses Maimonides

It is a great joy that the spirit of all living beings is inseparable from the universal spirit. - Tibetan Buddhist Saying

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

The eternal being, as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. - Arthur Schopenhauer If people were superior to animals, they would take better care of the world. - Winnie the Pooh

Horse Quotes

He has galloped through young girl's dreams, added richness to grown women's lives, and served men in war and strife. ~Toni Robinson

Horse thou art truly a creature
without equal, for thou fliest
without wings and conquerest
without sword.
~The Koran

The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears. ~ Arabian proverb

To ride a horse is to ride the sky And God took a handful of southerly wind, blew His breath over it and created the horse. ~Bedouin Legend

There's something about the outside of a horse that's good for the inside of a man. ~Sir Winston Churchill

Steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? ~Nilolai Gogol

When God created the horse he said to the magnificent creature: I have made thee as no other. All the treasures of the earth lie between thy eyes. Thou shalt carry my friends upon thy back. Thy saddle shall be the seat of prayers to me. And thou fly without wings, and conquer without any sword. Oh, horse. ~The Qu'ran (Koran)

Soon I shall go to sleep, in hopes of seeing him again. His intelligent soft eyes, his elegant head. His soft heart, and his four legs. For my horse is a dream, a dream of the making. ~Lindsay Turcotte

Ask me to show you poetry in motion, and I will show you a horse There are times when you can trust a horse, times when you can't, and times when you have to. In riding a horse we borrow freedom. ~Helen Thomson

A canter is a cure for every evil. ~Benjamin Disraeli

The horse is God's gift to mankind. ~Arabian Proverb

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse. ~Robert Smith Surtees

To be loved by a horse or any animal, should fill us with awe-for we have not deserved it. ~Marion C Garretty

Where in the wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined ~Ronald Duncan

When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk. He trots the air, the earth sings when he touches it, the basest horn of his hoofs is more musical than the pipe of Hermes...When bestride him I soar, I am a hawk... - William Shakespeare

Never ride faster than your guardian angel can fly!

My horse the dolphin of the plain...
My boat of roses, steed of fire
At once the courser and the shallop,
The dolphin on whose surge I gallop...
-Roy Campbell

Horses are the most agreeable friends. They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. "No hour of life is lost that is spent riding a horse." Winston Churchill

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. W. C. Fields (1890 - 1946) Horses lend us the wings we lack. - Pam Brown

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a horse. - John Galsworthy God forbid I should go to any heaven where there are no horses. - R.B. Cunningham - Graham He is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him: he is indeed a horse: and all other jades you may call beasts. - William Shakespeare, King Henry V

"In the steady gaze of the horse shines a silent eloquence that speaks of love, loyalty, strength and courage. It is the window that reveals to us how willing is his spirit, how generous his heart." -L. McGuire

My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by, With thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye! - Caroline Sheridan Norton 1808-1877, English writer, poet.

"When Allah created the horse, he said to the wind,
"I will that a creature
proceed from thee. Condense thyself."
And the wind condensed itself, and
the result was the horse."

If a man allows you to ride his favorite horse, he's paid you the highest compliment. - Anonymous

Dog Quotes

"If there is no heaven for dogs, then I want to go where they go when I die." -Anonymous

"The greatest 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

"If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people." -Capek

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." -Billings

"The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two." -Maeterlinck

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

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

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." -Josh Billings

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person." -Andrew A.

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts." -John Steinbeck

"If your dog doesn't like someone you probably shouldn't either." -Unknown

"Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit well." -Bonnie Wilcox

"The more people I meet the more I like my dog" -Unknown

"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 Matter how little money and how few possessions, you own, having a dog makes you rich." -Louis Sabin

"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail." -Henry Wheeler Shaw

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

"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

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

"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." -Alexander Pope

"Every dog must have his day." -Jonathan Swift

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful." -Ann Landers

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons." -James Thurber

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. It is the principal difference between a dog and a man." -Mark Twain

"The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue" -Anonymous

"The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog." -George Graham

"Every boy who has a dog should also have a mother, so the dog can be fed regularly." -Anonymous

"Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress." -Louis Sabin

"Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe, we are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made." -Roger Caras

"A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk." -O. A.

"A dog is man's best friend, and vice versa." -Anonymous

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." -Roger Caras

"The dog has got more fun out of man than man has got out of the dog, for man is the more laughable of the two animals." -James Thurber

"A good dog deserves a good home." -Proverb

"A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually by sleeping where a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him." -Anonymous

"A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but everyone prefers his bark." -Anonymous

"A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours." -Anonymous

"There is only one smartest dog in the world, and every boy has it." -Anonymous

"Every dog may have his day, but it's the puppies that have the weekends." -Anonymous

"It's no coincidence that man's best friend cannot talk." -Anonymous

"A dog's bark may be worse than his bite, but it's never quite so personal" -Anonymous

"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails." -Max Eastman

"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job." -Franklin P.

"I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer." -Barbara Woodhouse

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

"You can't keep a good man down -- or an over affectionate dog." -Anonymous

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

"No animal I know of can consistently be more of a friend and companion than a dog." -Stanley Leinwoll

"When most of us talk to our dogs, we tend to forget they're not people." -Julia Glass

"You own a dog; you feed a cat." -Jim Fiebig

"Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog." -The Cockle

"Happiness is a warm puppy." -Charles Schulz

"A collie has the brain of a man, and the ways of a woman." -Scottish Proverb

"Intelligent dogs rarely want to please people whom they do not respect." -W.R. Koehler

"There is no faith which has never yet been broken except that of a truly faithful dog." -Konrad Lorenz

"The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people." -Daniel Pinkwater

"A well-trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it." -Helen Thomson

"A dog desires affection more than its dinner. Well - almost." -Charlotte Gray

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement" -Snoopy

"A dog is the only thing that can fill the void in your empty heart" -Kate

"Acquiring a dog, may be the only time a person gets to choose a relative." -Unknown

Somewhere a little dog doth wait; It may be by some garden gate. With eyes alert and tail attent - you know the kind of tail that's meant- With stores of yelps of glad delight to bid me welcome home at night. - John Kendrick Bangs

The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable gift of mankind. - Theodorus Gaza

Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. - Ambrose Bierce

Every boy should have two things: a dog and a mother willing to let him have one. - Anonymous

If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friend's motions and inclinations, he possesses this in an eminent degree; he lies down when I sit and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do. - Alexander Pope

The dog is a saint. He is straightforward and honest by nature. He knows by instinct when he is not wanted; lies quite still for hours while his king is hard at work. But when his king is sad and worried, he creeps up and lays his head on his lap. "Don't worry. Never mind if they all abandon you. Let us go for a walk and forget all about it!" - Axel Munthe

A dog has the soul of a philosopher. - Plato

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. - Anonymous


I miss the wagging little tail; I miss the plaintive, pleading wail; I miss the wistful, loving glance; I miss the circling welcome-dance. - Henry Willett, "In Memoriam"

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dogHe will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds that come in encounter with the roughness of the worldWhen all other friends desert, he remains. - George G. Vest

The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be - Konrad Lorenz My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. - Edith Wharton

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

Nobody can fully understand the meaning of love unless he is owned by a dog. - Gene Hill

We have not to gain his confidence or his friendship; for he is born our friend; while his eyes are still closed, already he believes in us, even before his birth, he has given himself to man. - Maurice Maeterlinch from "My Dog" I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons. - Will Rogers

I care not for a man's religion whose dog or cat are not the better for it. - Abraham Lincoln

Love me, Love my dog. - John Heywood

A psychologist would have much to learn from watching the way a dog listens. - Dr Victor Bloom

No Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised enough money to buy a quarter share of my little dog - Earnest Thompson Seton

A dog has one aim in life. To bestow his heart. - J. R. Ackerley

Inside every Newfoundland, Boxer, Elkhound and Great Dane is a puppy longing to climb on to your lap. - Helen Thompson

Dogs love company. They place it first on their short list of needs. - JR Ackerley

No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich. - Louis Sabin

Happiness is a warm puppy. - Charles Shulz

Cat Quotes

"Time is nothing to a cat when she is dancing" -Anonymous

"The more people I meet the more I like my cat." -Anonymous

"I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul." -Jean Cocteau

"By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer." -Colette

"Cats are designated friends." -Norman Corwin

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece." -Leonardo Da Vinci

"Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings." -Oliver Herford

"Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words, and the president of the sovereign chiefs and the governor of the holy Circle; thou art indeed...the Great Cat." -Inscription On

"To err is human, to purr is feline." -Robert Byrne

"They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, Can he name a kitten?" -Samuel Butler

"I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." -Hippolyte Taine

"Cats don't like change without their consent." -Roger A.

"Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds." -Jean Burden

"An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old." -Carl Van

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

"If cats could talk, they wouldn't." -Nan Porter

"Purring would seem to be, in her case, an automatic safety-valve device for dealing with happiness overflow." -Monica Edwards

"A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it." -Joseph Epstein

"There are no ordinary cats." -Colette

"The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron." -George Will

"God made the cat in order that man might have the pleasure of caressing the tiger." -Fernand Mery

"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat." -Mark Twain

"The cat has too much spirit to have no heart." -Ernest Menaul

"To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction--and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by." -Stephen Baker

"Cat people are different, to the extent that they generally are not conformists. How could they be, with a cat running their lives?" -Louis J.

"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well." -Missy Dizick

"Like a graceful vase, a cat, even when motionless, seems to flow." -George F.

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

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

"As we all know, cats now rule the world." -John R.F.

"Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties." -W.L. George

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

"There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage." -Carl Van

"How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven." -Robert A.

"If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave." -Theophile Gautier

"There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage." -Carl Van

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia." -Joseph Wood

"There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion." -Christopher Smart

"If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave." -Theophile Gautier

"It's very hard to be polite if you're a cat." -Anonymous

"Unlike us, cats never outgrow their delight in cat capacities, nor do they settle finally for limitations. Cats, I think, live out their lives fulfilling their expectations." -Irving Townsend

"Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own." -John Dingman

"I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream." -William Shakespeare,

"Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression." -Beverly Nichols

"Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish." -James Gorman

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly." -Theophile Gautier

"Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge." -Eleanor Farjeon

"A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it." -Jerome K.

"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort." -James Herriot

"Do our cats name us? My former husband swore that Humphrey and Dolly and Bean Blossom called me The Big Hamburger." -Eleanora Walker

"The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact." -P.G. Wodehouse

"The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into." -Bruce Schimmel

"Ye shall not possess any beast, my dear sisters, except only a cat." -The Ancren

"When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle." -Sarah Orne

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" -Theophile Gautier

"When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?" -Michel De

"A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days." -Albert Einstein

"It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence." -Pierre Loti

"There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat." -Wesley Bates

"If a cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem here.'" -Roy Blount,

"Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them." -Jim Davis

"The smart cat doesn't let on that he is." -H. G.

"My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her." -Colette

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

"Are cats lazy? Well, more power to them if they are. Which one of us has not entertained the dream of doing just as he likes, when and how he likes, and as much as he likes?" -Fernand Mery

"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer" -Alfred North

"In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this." -Unknown

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

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?" -Steven Wright

"A dog knows his master, a cat does not" -Eleasar B.

"The cat is the mirror of his human's mind the dog mirrors his human's physical appearance." -Winifred Carriere

"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats." -Anonymous

"Happiness is like a cat sleeping on your lap. You can't force it to come to you and you can't force it to stay with you." -Pierre Foglia

"Dogs are eternally grateful that humans exist, Cats, however, are simply mildly appreciative!" -Carl Brizzi

"It is better to cut off the sleeve of your best robe than to disturb a sleeping cat." -The Prophet

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