 | "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
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| "We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."
- Anna Sewell
, Black Beauty, 1877. |
| "I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves."
- August Strindberg
, A Madman's Diary, 1895. |
| "Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
- Charles M. Schulz
, (Snoopy). |
| "It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it ?"
- Eleanor H. Porter
, Pollyanna, 1912. |
| "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
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| "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
- George Eliot
, 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857. |
| "Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture."
- Jacquelyn Mitchard
, The Deep End of the Ocean. |
| "Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."
- Jeff Valdez
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| "Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to."
- Joe Gores
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