Pet Animals Quotes - Page 3

• Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

  Henry Beston

  Animal, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.18, David R. Godine Publisher

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• No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

  Murray Banks

  Animal, Pet, Needs

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• The gift which I am sending you is called a dog, and is in fact the most precious and valuable possession of mankind

  Theodorus Gaza

  Dog, Pet, Facts

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• It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.

  Russell Hoban

  Silly, Animal, Earth

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.146, A&C Black

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• Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.

  Louis Sabin

  Dog, Home, Animal

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• No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich.

  Louis Sabin

  Dog, Silly, Owning A Pet

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• Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

  John Muir

  Motivational, Dog, Nature

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.277, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Ends

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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• In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

  George Graham Vest

  Dog, Selfish, Ungrateful

  "Best Speech; Faithful, Even in Death" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. April 18, 1999.

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• Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

  Joe Gores

  Dog, Mean, Animal

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• I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

  Walt Whitman

  Animal, Thinking, Self

  "Song of Myself " l. 684 (written 1855)

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• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Memorable, Animal

  'Richard III' (1591) act 5, sc. 4, l. 7

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• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Nature, Greatness

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• Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Pet, Manipulation

  "Harper's Magazine", August 1, 1988.

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• I don't have a hands - on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I'm kind to them, but there's no special bond between me and other animals...

  Wayne Pacelle

  Growing Up, Animal, Hands

  "Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt". Book by Ted Kerasote, www.humanewatch.org. 1994.

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• You dont have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and then sit there and watch TV.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Home, Animal

  "The Chicago Daily Herald" Newspaper, March 1, 1990.

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• A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.

  Muhammad

  Animal, Deeds Done, Vegetarian

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• He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
  
  
  
  Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Heart, Animal

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• Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

  James Anthony Froude

  Sports, Honesty, Integrity

  Oceana ch. 5 (1886)

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• I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.

  Romain Rolland

  Funny, Money, Animal

  "The Anchor Book of French quotations, with English Translations". Book by Norbert Guterman, 1963.

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• In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

  Edward Hoagland

  Dog, Nature, Silly

  Edward Hoagland (1976). “Red Wolves and Black Bears”, Random House Incorporated

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• Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

  Alexander Pope

  Loyalty, Dog, Silly

  Alexander Pope (1737). “Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope: And Several of His Friends”, p.53

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

  Charles de Gaulle

  Funny Love, Dog, Men

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  Samuel Butler

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Life and Habit ch. 8 (1877)

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• Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Animal, Car

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Talks Back”, p.118, Crown Archetype

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