I absolutely love my animals, so here are a few that you may enjoy.
"Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."
- Elias Canetti
Were 't not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.
- Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer")
"I hate a word like "pets": it sounds so much
Like something with no living of its own."
- Elizabeth Jennings, My Animals
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language." ~ Martin Buber
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." ~ Immanual Kant
"My little dog -- a heartbeat at my feet." ~ Edith Wharton
"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution." ~ Hazel Nicholson
"The purity of a person's heart can be quickly measured by how they regard animals" ~ Anonymous
"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" ~ Theophile Gautier
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." ~ Roger Caras
"There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat." ~ Wesley Bates
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
- Diane Ackerman, quoted in "Newsweek"