This section does exactly what is says on the tin! Listed below are some famous and not so famous animal related quotes from around the world. I hope you enjoy reading them. If you have any favourite quotes about animals, please let me know and I will include them here.

General Animal Quotes

“For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.”

 - Cleveland Amory

“A house is not a home without a pet.”

- Anonoymous

“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.”

- Martin Buber

“All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.”

 - Samuel Butler

“Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.”

– Charles Darwin

“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains un-awakened”

- Anatole France

“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”

– Immanuel Kant

“The best thing about animals is that they don’t talk much.”

- Thornton Wilder

 

Cat Quotes

“As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.”

- Ellen Perry Berkeley

“Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.”

- Jean Burden

“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

- Winston Churchill

“Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.”

- Missy Dizick

“Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren’t like this. A dog’s idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.”

- James Gorman

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens.”

- Abraham Lincoln

“When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?”

- Montaigne

“Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you’re hungry, eat. When you’re tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet’s, pee on your owner.”

- Gary Smith

“A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal, even if it does stand on two legs.”

- Sarah Thompson

“If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.”
- Alfred North Whitehead

 

 

Dog Quotes

“Let sleeping dogs lie.”
- Charles Dickens

“The nose of the Bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.”
- Winston Churchill

“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

- Winston Churchill

“Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren’t like this. A dog’s idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.”

- James Gorman

“A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.”
- Washington Irving

“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
- Abraham Lincoln

“The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don’t know…How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what’s its own and what’s alien.”
- Plato

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
- Alexander Pope

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”
- Andrew A. Rooney

“No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.”
- Louis Sabin

“If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.”
- Alfred North Whitehead

 

 

Pigs Quotes

“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

- Winston Churchill

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
- George Bernard Shaw