Animals are highly capable of giving us joy and genuine love without agenda or malice. They stay innocent with gentle, forgiving eyes even when it’s sometimes hard and cruel. Unlike humans, they don’t have ambitions and desires. That’s why there’s a special bond between people and their pets that’s pure.
These 30 pet quotes will make you want to give more belly rubs.
Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time. – H. G. Bissinger
I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then I said, ‘Does he bite?’ She said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘Oh yeah? Then how does he eat?’ Liar. – Demetri Martin
Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans. – Robert Wagner
When we adopt a dog or any pet, we know it is going to end with us having to say goodbye, but we still do it. And we do it for a very good reason: They bring so much joy and optimism and happiness. They attack every moment of every day with that attitude. – W. Bruce Cameron
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. – James Herriot
I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love. – James Herriot
Before you get a dog, you can’t quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can’t imagine living any other way. – Caroline Knapp
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. – Milan Kundera
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. – Michael Morpurgo
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. – Immanuel Kant
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical. – William S. Burroughs
Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. – George Eliot
There’s a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around. – Dick Dale
Cats have it all – admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. – Rod McKuen
For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet. – Eckhart Tolle
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. – Jean Cocteau
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. – Christopher Morley
Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it’s a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of. – Emmylou Harris
I have a pet lizard named Puff, five goldfish – named Pinky, Brain, Jowels, Pearl and Sandy, an Oscar fish named Chef, two pacus, an albino African frog named Whitey, a bonsai tree, four Venus flytraps, a fruit fly farm, and sea monkeys. – Chris Pratt
There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. – Bernard Williams
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. – Jules Verne
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. – Albert Schweitzer
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. – Anatole France
Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people. – Andre Norton
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked. – Haile Selassie
It’s difficult to understand why people don’t realize that pets are gifts to mankind. – Linda Blair
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. – Alfred A. Montapert
If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. – Woodrow Wilson
Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don’t go buy one. Please. That’s a sin. Let’s get these puppy mills out of business. – Shelley Morrison
Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life. – James Cromwell
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