• “Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms”

    – George Eliot

  • “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent”

    – Milan Kundera

  • "Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral"

    – Charles Darwin

  • “Meow” means “woof” in cat

    – George Carlin

  • “The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat”

    – Jules Renard

  • "Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do"

    – Gregory Maguire

  • "It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."

    – Mark Twain

  • “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened”

    – Anatole France

  • "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

    – Mahatma Gandhi

  • “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

    – Winston S. Churchill

  • “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself”

    – Josh Billings

  • “You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”

    – Paul McCartney

  • "Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem"

    – A.A. Milne

  • “Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.”

    – Gregory Maguire

  • “Cats are angels with fur”

    – Sark

  • “Animals don‘t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.”

    – Elvis Presley

  • “Whoever said you can’t buy Happiness forgot little puppies.”

    – Gene Hill

  • “Humanity’s true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”

    – Milan Kundera

  • “An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language”

    – Martin Buber

  • “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.”

    – Mark Twain

  • “May all that have life be delivered from suffering”

    – Buddha

  • "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

  • "Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know"

    – Irene M. Pepperberg

  • "You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us"

    – Robert Louis Stevenson

  • “Horses make a landscape look beautiful.”

    – Alice Walker

  • "Until you have your own cat, you really don’t understand.”

    – Rescue Ink

  • “How could it ever be to our purpose to rob another living being of his or her purpose?”

    – Will Tuttle

  • “More often than not, what animals require our protection from is not hurricanes or fires, but abuse at the hands of other people.”

    – Julie Klam

  • “The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs”

    – Charles de Gaulle

  • “Everybody is born so that they can learn to live a good life-like loving everybody and being nice, right? Well animals already know how to do that, so they don’t have to live so long”

    – Robin Downing

  • “I call my horses ‘divine mirrors’—they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in love and respect and kindness and curiosity, the horse will return that.”

    – Allan Hamilton

  • “To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being.”

    – Mahatma Gandhi

  • "Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened"

    – Anatole France

  • “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

  • “We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves.”

    – Peter Singer

  • “One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home”

    – Pam Brown

  • “From horses we may learn not only about the horse itself but also about animals in general, indeed about ourselves and about life as a whole.”

    – George Gaylord Simpson

  • “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

  • “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior”

    – Hippolyte Taine

  • “Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”

    – Colette

  • “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian.”

    – Linda McCartney

  • “Animals are my friends … and I don’t eat my friends.”

    – George Bernard Shaw

  • “Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.”

    – Jonathan Safran Foer

  • “The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer.”

    – Paula Poundstone

  • "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

  • “Animals don‘t know as much about jealousy as people, but they’re not ignorant of it, either.”

    – Stephen King

  • “..the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”

    – Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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