A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

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

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.

A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

And I strongly believe people should rescue dogs, or, at the very least, listen to Bob Barker and have your pet spayed or neutered.

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

Cats are connoisseurs of comfort.

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

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.

Cats don't like change without their consent.

Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

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

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

Dogs are my favorite people.

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

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

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

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill.

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

Humans should always exercise and watch what they eat. So with your pet, make sure they get enough exercise, make sure they're getting fed at the same time every day and getting the nutrition they need. And make sure they get a lot of love and attention you both need. That's why you have them!

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!

I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

I don't have pet peeves I have whole kennels of irritation.

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.

I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me it felt disloyal.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun.

I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.

I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish - named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm and sea monkeys.

I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love.

I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine.

I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

I heard that Jesus had a pet dinosaur. Evolution must be a myth then.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

I looked up my family tree and found three dogs using it.

I love animals and feel very strongly that people should not be allowed to buy a pet if they are not able to look after it.

I love cats because I enjoy my home and little by little, they become its visible soul.

I love cats.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.

I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up.

I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

I used to love dogs until I discovered cats.

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog.

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.

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

I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.

I'd say the best is when I was in Africa, I saw a hippo in a house. Someone had a pet hippo. And they're meant to be one of the most dangerous animals on the planet, and they had one that was sort of just wandering in and out of their house, just sort of roaming about.

I'm looking more like my dogs every day - it must be the shaggy fringe and the ears.

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

I've always been mad about cats.

I've been lucky. I've made films that I really like. It's been a combination of what comes to me and what I choose. I've gone after lots of things that I didn't get, pet projects that everybody ends up chasing after. Really, you're lucky if you get anything.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

I've teamed up with PetSmart Charities to celebrate the five million homeless pets who've found homes through their in-store adoption centers, and to spread the word about how we can work together to save millions more pets' lives and, ultimately, end pet homelessness.

If a dog jumps into 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.

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high.

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.

It is one of my pet hates when I see players who have agents who do everything for them. They don't know how to set up their own bank accounts, they don't know what they are spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions.

It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.

It's a little known fact that one in three family pets gets lost during its lifetime, and approximately 9 million pets enter shelters each year. That's why it's a wonderful thing to get your pet microchipped and registered with your contact information because then they can be located and the owners can track where their pets are.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

Kittens can happen to anyone.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

My idea of a perfect pet is a really, really big dog! Huge!

My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo.

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'

My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.

Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?

One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.

One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.

Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that.

Packing is my pet hate.

People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

Pet me, touch me, love me, that's what I get when I perform. That's when I'm really getting what I want.

Pet stores just sell their animals.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

The dog is the god of frolic.

The government needs to help those in need, but members of Congress shouldn't take advantage of the situation and use a national tragedy as an opportunity to spend taxpayer dollars on their pet projects.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

The trouble with a kitten is that eventually it becomes a cat.

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

There are all sorts of cute puppy dogs, but it doesn't stop people from going out and buying Dobermans.

There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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

There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.

There's just me and my wife and a dog and we feed him Healthy Choice also.

There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours.

To his dog, every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs.

To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

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

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.

We have three cats. It's like having children, but there is no tuition involved.

We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet.

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!