Pet Quotes

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

~ Josh Billings

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

~ Kinky Friedman

Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.

~ Robert Wagner

Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'

~ Ian Dunbar

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.

~ Tom Felton

Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!

~ Dove Cameron

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

~ Garrison Keillor

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

~ Konrad Lorenz

Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type.

~ Gretchen Rubin

I read very one-note. Teacher's pet, Goody Two-shoes. I'd hate to be annoying. Who wants to see movies with someone annoying in them? But it's hard for me to paint myself as anything but whatever it is I come across as - which is pretty together.

~ Allison Williams

I was ridiculed in public school for being smart. A teacher's pet.

~ Julia Glass

Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

~ Walter O'brien

I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

~ Damon Lindelof

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

~ Cleveland Amory

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

~ Kaspar Hauser

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.

~ Cher

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

~ Rodney Dangerfield

Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

~ Laura Mennell

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

~ W. L. George

Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

~ Eddie Izzard

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.

~ Antonio Banderas

Time spent with cats is never wasted.

~ Sigmund Freud

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

~ Groucho Marx

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.

~ Karl Pilkington

Ever consider what pets 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

People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well they do, what kind of people they are. The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test.

~ Linda Blair