Cat And Dog Quotes - Page 5

• Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

  Margaret Deland

  Dog, Cat, Fighting

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• Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

  Bill Murray

  Dog, Cat, Sacrifice

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• In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration.

  Doug Larson

  Dog, Zero, Cat

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• Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Dog, Cat, Animal

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• Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to the prevailing attitude that dogs and cats and wild animals need protection, but other animals do not. Thus people came to think of "animal welfare" as something for kindly ladies who are dotty about cats, and not as a cause founded on basic principles of justice and morality.

  Peter Singer

  Dog, Attitude, Cat

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• Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered.

  George Carlin

  Dog, Sleep, Cat

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents – sometimes – but I don’t believe in romantic love. Of course, there’s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but it’s biology – it’s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette you’re smoking

  Amy Jenkins

  Dog, Children, Believe

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• We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.

  William James

  Dog, Book, Cat

  William James (1977). “A Pluralistic Universe”, p.140, Harvard University Press

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• Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

  William James

  Dog, Cat, Library

  William James (1973). “William James on Psychical Research”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs

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• Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.92, New World Library

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• My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

  Joanna Lumley

  Mother, Dog, Believe

  "Joanna Lumley: Animals Are Just Like Us". Interview with Dan Mathews, www.peta.org. December 6, 2010.

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