Humans And Dogs Quotes

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Abraham Lincoln

Meaningful, Nature, Compassion

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I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.

Gary Larson

Believe, Animal, Thinking

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Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Cat, Animal, Personality

The Twelve Seasons: A Perpetual Calendar for the Country "February: The OneWe Could Do Without" (1949)

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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

George Orwell

Running, Fear, Animal

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

Inspirational, Life, Beauty

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

Milan Kundera

Attitude, Compassion, Animal

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Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much.

Hiromu Arakawa

Dog, Smart, Humans

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His head on my knee can heal my human hurts. His presence by my side is protection against my fears of dark and unknown things. He has promised to wait for me... whenever... wherever-in case I need him. And I expect I will-as I always have. He is just my dog.

Gene Hill

Dog, Hurt, Dark

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In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Cat, Eye, Kitten

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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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Dogs never bite me. Just humans.

Marilyn Monroe

Inspirational, Dog, Animal

"Music for Chameleons (A Beautiful Child)". Book by Truman Capote, 1980.

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

Groucho Marx

Funny, Friendship, Education

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs.

Martha Scott

Funny, Dog, Mistake

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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

Emily Dickinson

Love, Inspirational, Life

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Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.

Cesar Millan

Dog, Animal, Inner Beauty

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Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

Funny, Dog, Compassion

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People who hate cats, will come back as mice in their next life.

Faye Resnick

Hate, Cat, People

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As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

Ellen Perry

Love, Cat, Animal

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Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

Eloisa James

Dog, Cat, Animal

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Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

Jeff Valdez

Funny, Dog, Cat

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

John Steinbeck

Dog, Eye, Thinking

John Steinbeck (2012). “The Portable Steinbeck”, p.42, Penguin

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There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

Love, Funny, Music

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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

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Time spent with cats is never wasted.

Sigmund Freud

Time, Cat, Animal

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Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.

Jeff Valdez

Dog, Believe, Cat

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