Post your favorite quote about animals

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

Besides "The smallest feline is a masterpiece" (da Vinci), I love this one:

"Sometimes he sits at your feet looking into your face with an expression so gentle and caressing that the depth of this gaze startles you. Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" (Theophile Gautier)

[mikeytherat]

1. Twain on cats:

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

mikey_the_rat

[deucemagnet]

2. "Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture." -- Jacquelyn Mitchard

[Liberal Dose]

3. I have several

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

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

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
-Will Rogers

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

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.
-Andy Rooney

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. Acklam

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.
-Sigmund Freud

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

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

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
-Franklin P. Jones

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 your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise.
-Unknown

:hi:

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money.
-Joe Weinstein

Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul -- chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
-Anne Tyler

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

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

You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'Wow, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'
- Dave Barry

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

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your
pocket and then give him only two of them.
-Phil Pastoret

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

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Those are great, and some are lol funny. Thanks!

[Nevernose]

31. Really funny! Thanks (n/t)

n/t

[Richardo]

4. Mine's in my sig line

:D

[driver8]

20. That's my favorite one, too!

I hope that there are dogs in heaven...I've got a few friends I can't wait to see!!

[Liberal Dose]

5. Dogs think you are God while cats regard you as staff. I don't know who said that n/t

[pokerfan]

6. George Graham Vest

George Graham Vest (1830-1904) served as U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1879 to 1903 and became one of the leading orators and debaters of his time. This delightful speech is from an earlier period in his life when he practiced law in a small Missouri town. It was given in court while representing a man who sued another for the killing of his dog. During the trial, Vest ignored the testimony, but when his turn came to present a summation to the jury, he made the following speech and won the case.

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Gentlemen of the Jury: The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us, may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads.

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. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer. He will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings, and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens.

If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies. And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by the graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death.

[Ptah]

8. Beef, it's what's for dinner.

[liberalitch]

9. "A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast." Proverbs

If all the beasts were gone, man would die from loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beast, happens to the man."
Chief Seattle

"He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
Kant


"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
Lincoln

[yewberry]

10. From H. Beston's "The Outermost House"

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals.
Remote from universal nature,
And living by complicated artifice,
Man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge
And sees thereby a feather magnified
And the whole image in distortion.

We patronize them for their incompleteness,
For their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves.
And therein we err, and greatly err,
For the animal shall not be measured by man.

In a world older and more complete than ours
They move finished and complete,
Gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained,
Living by voices we shall never hear.

They are not brethren,
They are not underlings,
They are other nations,
Caught with ourselves in the net of life and time,
Fellow prisoners
Of the splendour and travail of the earth.


(Thanks to Robeson for pointing it out to me.)

[XemaSab]

16. That book is THE BOMB.

:D

[yewberry]

23. Yay!

Another fan!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

22. That's awesome

Thanks for posting.

[sarge43]

11. Twain again

"She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot."

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calender

[flvegan]

12. Easily my favorite, if not somewhat obscure:

"If we are trespassing, so were the American Soldiers who broke down the gates of Hitler's death camps; If we are thieves, so were the members of the Underground Railroad who freed the slaves of the South; and if we are vandals, so were those who destroyed forever the gas chambers of Buchenwald and Auschwitz." - Anon

My next favorite:

"Prepare to ram." - Capt. Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Probably not what you were looking for, though.

[applegrove]

13. Something like: "Pets immitate human behaviour to live with humans. Cats

act like cooing babies, dogs immitate TEENAGERS IN LOVE".

Not really a quote, just something I read somewhere.

[datasuspect]

14. "dogs and cats don't go to heaven because they have no souls."

-sister mary francis, 3rd grade

[MonkeyFunk]

15. Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend...

inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -Groucho Marx

[Richardo]

24. Yes!!

I love that one. :rofl:

[DBoon]

26. You beat me to it

dang, I'll have to come up with another dog quote

[Gormy Cuss]

17. Not about animals, but with an animal as a metaphor

"Fog" by Carl Sandburg

The fog comes
on little cat feet.

It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

[TheDoorbellRang]

18. "Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to. "

by Mark Twain

[KamaAina]

19. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

George Orwell, Animal Farm. Of course he was really referring to humans, but then, arent we animals, too?

[Bryn]

21. What TV Preacher says

Charles Stanley of "In-Touch" on Christian TV:


"People have spent millions of dollars on pets. What a waste! Animals have no soul!"



He is so arrogant :puke: I cannot stand him.

[EFerrari]

25. "Dirty toilet devil!" -- Koko to Michael.

[Rabrrrrrr]

27. If God didn't want us to eat animals, he shouldn't have made them out of meat.

:rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

28. Two quotes from the same book, and said by the same pig:

"Comrades, do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL!"

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."

-- both as said or written by Napoleon

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

29. Will a poem do?

Posted in the Lounge at least once before.
---

BRE’R DOG

Bre'r Dog, it's just too fine a night
for layin' at your master's feet
inside too small a house,
when black woods call with endless
scents and sounds-- Prick your ears!
Listen to the distant call! The pack
just wants to run and chase, and
wouldn’t it be fine to stick your wet
cold nose down rabbit holes all filled
with earthy richness, padding paws on
rustling crackling autumn leaves
so cool, so fine to chase a hissing cat
right up a tree, to nip at loping cow’s tails,
running full-speed through the meadows
wet with dew and thick with burrs
so sticky tangly caught within your fur,
and splash on down the running creek,
all chilly cold within the late night madness
breeze, and best of all this deep dark world is YOURS
until the very break of dawn!--
Bre'r dog, what say let's you and me
bust out tonight and do some
howlin' at the moon?

© 2007 Steven A. Hessler
All Rights Reserved

[tuckessee]

30. "I like cats & I don't like people who don't."

Roger Moore as ffolkes in the movie North Sea Hijack(1979).

[Whoa_Nelly]

32. A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

[opiate69]

33. "You know what Nietzsche said about animals? 'They were God's second blunder.' "

I kid.. I kid..