Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. Voltaire

'I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.' August Strindberg

'Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.' Gertrude Stein

'The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril.... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.' Alice Walker

'You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.' Nora Ephron

'No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.' Fran Lebowitz

'My cat does not talk as respectfully to me as I do to her.' Colette

'Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you.' Missy Dizick and Mary Bly

'Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: Be-ooootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws like moths, jeweled cat, miraculous cat! Cat, cat, cat, cat.' Doris Lessing

'Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.' Agnes Repplier

'The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.' Samuel Butler

'All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it -- and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.' Samuel Butler

'I hate 'Humanity' and all such abstracts: but I love people. Lovers of 'Humanity' generally hate people and children, and keep parrots or puppy dogs.' Roy Campbell

'Hi! handsome hunting man Fire your little gun. Bang! Now the animal Is dead and dumb and done. Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again, Eat or sleep or drink again, Oh, what fun!' Walter de la Mare

'Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.' Mark Twain

'Odd things animals. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down to you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal.' Winston Churchill

'Cat, n. a soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.' Ambrose Bierce

'A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn round three times before lying down.' Robert Benchley

'One of the most appreciated qualities of animals is that they are beyond language. That they feel but do not require conversation is a great relief to most people.' Mary Allen

'I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.' Jean Cocteau