Passed Over Pets
Reflective
The following is a compliation of some interesting and insightful quotes about animals and pets. Some are a bit tongue-in-cheek to lighten the moment...
Feel free to send some along to me that you might like included on this page!
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. ~ John Muir
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. Facklam
Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking dog news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard. ~ Dave Barry
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. ~ Robert Benchley
Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ~ Ann Landers
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. - Josh Billings
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. ~ Mary Bly
When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! ~ David Starr Jordan
Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay. ~ Albert Einstein
The love for all living creatures is the noblest attribute of man. ~ Charles Darwin
The suggestion that animals should pay for their freedom with their lives is moral nonsense. ~ David Cowles-Hamar
I feel very sorry for women who continue to purchase real fur coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites, heart and sensitivity. ~ Jayne Meadows
My dog can bark like a congressman, fetch like an aide, beg like a press secretary and play dead like a receptionist when the phone rings. ~ Gerald Solomon, US Congressman
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. ~ Henry Beston
Always behave like a duck...keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. ~ James Bryant Conant
First you learn a new language, profanity; and second you learn not to discipline your dogs when you're mad, and that's most of the time when you're training dogs. ~ Lou Schultz, trainer of Alaskan Huskies
A nation's progress can be judged by how they treat their animals. ~ Gandhi
Ever consider what they 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
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ~ Thomas A. Edison
The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
I wonder what goes through his mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl. ~ Penny Ward Moser
Dogs are our link to Paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace. ~ Milan Kundera
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. ~ Woodrow Wilson
My dog is usually pleased with what I do, because she is not infected with the concept of what I "should" be doing. ~ Lonzo Idolswine
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. ~ Mark Twain
Cats are living adornments. ~ Edwin Lent
Who could believe such pleasure from a wee ball o' fur? ~ Irish saying
A cat sleeps fat, yet walks thin. ~ Fred Schwab
The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence. ~ Edward Palley
There is an Indian legend which says when a human dies there is a bridge they must cross to enter into heaven. At the head of that bridge waits every animal that human encountered during their lifetime. The animals, based upon what they know of this person, decide which humans may cross the bridge.... and which are turned away. ~ Unknown
"We need another and a wiser and perhaps more mystical concept of animals. In a world 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 splendor and travail of
the earth." ~ Henry Beston
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