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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 Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.: Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878), Black Beauty, 1877
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.: August Strindberg (1849 - 1912), A Madman's Diary, 1895
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.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), (Snoopy)
It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?: Eleanor H. Porter (1868 - 1920), Pollyanna, 1912
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture.: Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.: Jeff Valdez
Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.: Joe Gores
My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.: Joe Weinstein
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.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.: Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.: Peter Steiner, cartoon in The New Yorker, July 5, 1993
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.: Rita Rudner
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.: Sue Murphy
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.: Unknown


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