Pet Quotes - Page 40

• A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

  A. A. Milne

  Funny, Dog, Lions

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• Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Dog, White, House

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• I'm a real pussy cat - with an iron tail.

  Rona Barrett

  Real, Cat, Iron

  "Hollywood’s Rona Barrett: Now A Senior Advocate Dynamo" by Dayna Steele, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 5, 2016.

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• No animal admires another animal.

  Blaise Pascal

  Animal, Admire

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• Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Animal, Expression

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.346, Vintage

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• My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and he knows when to stop working.

  Harry S. Truman

  Horse, Animal, Mules

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men ... re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

  Walt Whitman

  Stupid, Hate, Crazy

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• Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Life, Reality

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• We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

  George Eliot

  Dog, Live Life, Animal

  "Puppy Love: new BBC4 comedy explores the UK's canine compulsion" by Joanna Scanlan & Vicki Pepperdine, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2014.

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• If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Dog, Silly, Animal

  Fran Lebowitz (1994). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, Vintage

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• It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

  Mark Twain

  Nature, Animal, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.304, Univ of California Press

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• So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  God, Art, Kindness

  'The World's Need'

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• The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

  Emile Zola

  Fear, Fate, Animal

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• You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

  Paul McCartney

  Character, Animal, Men

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• A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Honesty, Cat, Emotional

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

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• I don't have any pets, so I get to walk around the house naked. So I'm more free.

  Brendon Urie

  House, Naked, Walks

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• So maybe it’s just a part of who we all are, and always were. My worry now, though, is that we are starting to nurture these neuroses of ours, and treating them like pets. That can’t be a good thing.

  Craig Finn

  Worry, Neurosis, Good Things

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• Every day of your life, you change the world. Absolutely, yes, we're out to change the world. I mean, you change it whether you like it or not. You wake up and you talk to the grocer. You either kick your dog or you pet him. There's a million decisions you have every day where you change the world.

  Jon Foreman

  Dog, Mean, Decision

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• We don't understand the power of nature and the world because we don't live with it. Our environment is designed to sustain us. We are the domestic pets of a human zoo called civilization.

  Laurence Gonzales

  Zoos, Civilization, World

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• My family didn't find out until I told them, which was when I won Penthouse Pet of the Year. They took it as well as I could have hoped. I am their daughter and they love me, so it was great when they didn't disown me.

  Sunny Leone

  Daughter, Years, My Family

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• As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.

  Reid Scott

  Blow, Long, Mind

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• I really am a cat transformed into a woman.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Cat, Transformed

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• Dogs love to go for rides. A dog will happily get into any vehicle going anywhere.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Dog Love, Vehicle

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• Great men have always had dogs.

  Ouida

  Dog, Men, Great Men

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• Your surroundings, home, personal care, pets, clothing & body are all reflections of how you see and express yourself. Do these reflect your true self?

  Christiane Northrup

  Home, Reflection, Self

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