"Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
-- Albert Einstein

"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

"To err is human, to forgive canine."
-- Unknown

"While he was not as dumb as an ox, he was not any smarter either."
-- James Thurber, (1894 - 1961) US novelist, humorist, cartoonist

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."
-- E. B. White, (1899 - 1985) US humorist, essayist, novelist

"It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be."
-- Virgil, (70BC - 19BC) Roman poet

"Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase. That's what wild geese are made for."
-- Henry S. Haskins

"Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door." -- Saul Bellow

"It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms."
-- Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon In "Time," 31 Oct 1969.

"The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time."
-- Bruce Schneier

"You will never know if you are quick, until you poke a mountain lion with a stick."
-- Red Green [Steve Smith]

"Cat bathing is a martial art."

"Even worse than raining cats and dogs is hailing taxis."

"Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day."

"You don't have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the slowest guy running from the bear."

"Better to be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion."

"Rats greet you, they interact, they try to please. They are as close to a dog as you're going to get in a rodent."
-- Elizabeth Fucci, president of the Northeast Rat and Mouse Club

"If you cut a dog's head off, you get 25 hours bad luck. It is bad luck to kill a pegasus, unicorn, horse, or similar, if it is pure white in colour. (Followers of Dark and Death tend to disregard this)."

"Ravens bring good luck. (Followers of Light and Life disregard.)"

"It is bad luck to kill a raven. (Followers of Light and Life ignore this as well.)"

"When you bury dead animals under fruit trees, the fruits of these trees will be sweet."

"Bad luck to kill a cat."

"Squirt milk on a toad's back, the cow will go dry."

"A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog."
-- E. N. Westcott

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."
-- Samuel Butler.

"I know at last what distinguishes man from animals: financial worries."
-- Romain Rolland.

"If it were a dog, it would have bitten you already."
Actual Twents: "At e ne hond was, dan e oew allange ebettene."
Meaning:Said to someone who is looking for something which is right under his nose.
Source: Twents Woordenbook. Twents in Woord en Gebruik.

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

"Of all domestic animals the cat is the most expressive. His face is capable of showing a wide range of expressions. His tail is a mirror of his mind. His gracefulness is surpassed only by his agility. And, along with all these, he has a sense of humor."
-- Walter Chandoha

"When your cat rubs the side of its face along your leg, it's affectionately marking you with its scent, identifying you as its private property, saying, in effect, You belong to me."
-- Susan McDonough, D.M.V.

"There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic."
-- Monica Edwards

"Civilization is defined by the presence of cats."
-- Unknown

"The way in which she walks, the way in which she stalks, the way in which she "talks," makes even the most ordinary cat extraordinary."
-- Peter Collier

"Cats do care. For example they know instinctively what time we have to be at work in the morning and they wake us up twenty minutes before the alarm goes off."
-- Michael Nelson

"An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old boy."
-- Carl Van Vechten

"I purr, therefore I am."
-- Anonymous

"A meow massages the heart."
-- Stuart McMillan

"My cat speaks sign language with her tail."
-- Robert A. Stern

"Cats are designated friends."
-- Norman Corwin

"If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
-- Mark Twain

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."
-- Garrison Keillor

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?"
--Montaigne

"I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me."
-- A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

"Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."
-- Lewis Grizzard

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
-- Mark Twain

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job."
-- Franklin P. Jones

"The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien."
-- Plato

"Politics are not my concern... they impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies."
-- Rudyard Kipling

"If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has."
-- Will Rogers

"America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags it's tail it knocks over a chair."
-- Arnold Toynbee

"Ever consider what they must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul- chicken, pork, half a cow... they must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"
-- Anne Tyler

"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."
-- Edward Abbey

"The old saw about old dogs and new tricks only applies to certain people."
-- Daniel Pinkwater
'Train Your Dog, Dammit!'

"A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man."
-- Frances Thompson
New York Times Magazine
May 14, 1967

"In a dog-eat-dog world, it is the dogmatic domain of dog lovers to offer dogdom a dog's chance to rise above the dog days for a doggone good time."
-- AKC Gazette
August 1991

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
-- Rita Rudner

"A dog is not almost-human, and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such."
-- John Holmes

"Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger."
-- Albert Payson Terhune
'The Coming of Lad'

"Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go somewhere and read the book, I might have a little fun!"
-- Groucho Marx

"In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man."
-- Maurice Maeterlinck
'Our Friend, The Dog'

"Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit."
-- Sir Walter Scott
'The Talisman'

"The dog is man's best friend.
He has a tail on one end.
Up in front he has teeth.
And four legs underneath."
-- Ogden Nash
'An Introduction to Dogs'

"The nose of the Bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."
-- Winston Churchill

"If you can't decide between a Shepherd, a Setter or a Poodle, get them all ... adopt a mutt!"
-- ASPCA

"One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives."
-- Mark Twain

"The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color, scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, whatever the colour it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls."
-- Eric Gurney