Saturday Quote-a-thon: Pets and Animals

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In honor of our new family additions, Moxie and Foxy, here are some quotes on cats, dogs and the like.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
--Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
--Joseph Wood Krutch

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
--Joseph Wood Krutch

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
--Doug Larsen

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
--Abraham Lincoln

If a cat sits down on a hot stove, that's knowledge; it will never sit down on a hot stove again. But if it never sits down on a cold one either, that's belief.
--Solomon Short

Here is an animal with a hide two feet thick and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste.
-- James C. Wright, Jr., regarding the rhinoceros

Of all the [cat] toys available, none is better designed than the owner himself. A large multipurpose plaything, its parts can be made to move in almost any direction. It comes completely assembled and it makes a sound when you jump on it.
-- Stephen Baker

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home, which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night.
- Marie Corelli

Children left unattended will be given a free kitten.
--Sign at a DMV office

You cannot hunt with a tied dog.
-Albanian Proverb

The badger is not aware of its own blaze.
-Altay Proverb

Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else’s dog.
-The Cockel Bur

At first I thought he was walking a dog. Then I realized it was his date.
- Edith Massey

He has all the characteristics of a dog except loyalty.
- Sam Houston, on Thomas Jefferson Green

Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
- Harold Wilson

All animals are equal— but some animals are more equal than others.
- Animal Farm by George Orwell

Enjoy. My pussycats are asleep on my lap as I write this.

Yay!