Quotables
Let's take a peek at how some people make reference to our pets... Here are some quotes made by some famous and some not so famous characters. You may find some of these quotes inspirational. You may find some of these quotes insightful. But, you will probably find most of them to just be ridiculous and silly.
- Mark Twain (author)
- The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
- It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
- Steven Wright (comedian)
- I spilled spot remover on my dog and now he's gone.
- I don't have to walk my dog anymore. I walked him all at once.
- Why don't they just make mouse flavored cat food?
- Do radioactive cats have eighteen half-lives?
- Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
- Anonymous
- The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs!
- Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
- I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Robert Heinlein , Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long
- Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
- Gloria Allred
- The more I know about men, the more I like dogs.
- Josh Billings
- Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They're a different breed of dog.
- Steve Bluestone
- Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- George Bird Evans
- I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.
- Benjamin Franklin
- There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
- Lewis Grizzard
- Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
- Christopher Hampton
- Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
- Groucho Marx
- Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
- Moliere
- A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
- Bette-Jane Raphael
- Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
- August Strindberg
- I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
- Edward Noyes Westcott
- They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog--keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe.
- Unknown
- Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
- Jean Cocteau
- I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
- Colette
- ... I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time.
- Douglas Coupland
- What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber squeak toys?
- English Proverb
- In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
- John Frazee
- When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, inches above the ground. With a giant buttered-cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago.
- Ogden Nash
- The trouble with a kitten is THAT Eventually it becomes a CAT.
- Nigerian Proverb
- When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
- Jeff Valdez
- Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
- John Weitz
- Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.