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Quotes & Funnies
All Living CreaturesA lot of people spend time talking to animals but not that many people listen. That's the real problem. 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 Ask the animals and they will teach you. - Job 12:7 The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. - Anatole France Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see a bird that has the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses. - Dale Carnegie If I spent enough time with the tiniest creatures - even a caterpillar - I would have to prepare a sermon. So full of God is every creature. - Meister Eckart (1260-1327) All the arguments to prove man's superiority can not shatter this hard fact: In suffering, the animals are our equals. - Peter Singer I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. - Winston Churchill It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English (up to fifty words used in correct context) no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. - Carl Sagan I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. Use what talents you possess. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - William Blake The animals teach the lessons of faith, hope and love. And the greatest of these is love, for after all is said and done ... Love alone remains. - Deborah DeMoss Smith Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth. - Henry Beston Dolphins: Animals that are so intelligent that, within a few weeks of captivity, they can train a man to stand on the edge of their pool and throw them food three times a day. - Hal Roach Honor every being, for each is needed to complete the tapestry of life on earth. - Penelope Smith
CatsThere is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. - Unknown Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. - Anonymous Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. - Ellen Perry Berkeley One cat just leads to another - Ernest Hemingway Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer The cat has too much spirit to have no heart. - Ernest Menaul Time spent with cats is never wasted. - Colette You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats. - Colonial American proverb Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood Krutch Cat's aren't clean, they're just covered with cat spit. - John S. Nichols Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. There is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. Cats, like men, are flatterers. - William S. Landor A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it. - Henry David Thoreau There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. - Albert Schweitzer It's very hard to be polite Gaze She sits composedly sentinel, with paws In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats. - English Proverb I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. A calico or a tortoiseshell is like a Hershey bar with almonds - half sweet and half nuts. - Betty Crane When I play with a cat, who knows if I am not a pasttime to her more than she is to me? - Montaigne They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say "Can he name a kitten?" Cats are the connoisseurs of comfort. - James Herriot Many individuals swear they can ease or completely eliminate their migraine headaches simply by lying down with a purring cat next to their head. - Lev G. Fedyniak, MD The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. - Jules Reynard Cats do not declare their love much, they enact it, by their myriad invocations of our pleasure. - Vicki Hearne If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up. - Joan McIntosh It is better to feed one cat than many mice. - Norwegian Proverb If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. - Mark Twain To err is human, to purr, feline. - Robert Byrne There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. - Wesley Bates A kitten is the most irrestible comedian in the world. Its wide-open eyes gleam with wonder and mirth. It darts madly at nothing at all, and then, as though suddenly checked in the pursuit, prances sideways on its hind legs with ridiculous agility and zeal. - Agnes Repplier Like a graceful vase, a cat, even whem motionless, seems to flow. - George Will Cats pride themselves on their ability to do nothing. - John R. Breen Anyone who claims that a cat cannot give a dirty look either has never kept a cat or is singularly unobservant. One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home. - Pam Brown Vanity. They name is CAT. Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat. - Emile Auguste Chartier If you want a kitten, start out by asking for a horse. - Naomi, age 15 Dogs and cats instinctively know the exact moment their humans will wake up, Then they wake them up ten minutes sooner. - Unknown After scolding one's cat, one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word and has filed it for reference. - Charlotte Gray Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement and love without penalties. - W.L. George In my experience, cats and beds seem to be a natural combination. - Louis J. Camuti, DVM You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense. - Jane Pauley The only mystery about the cat is why it decided to become a domestic animal. - Sir Compton MacKenzie Some animals are secretive; some are shy. A cat is private. - Leonard Michaels Since each of us is blessed with only one life, why not live it with a cat? - Robert Stearns A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat. - George Mikes Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs. - Desmond Morris A meow massages the heart. - Stuart McMillan Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place. - Paul Gray I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. - Jean Cocteau Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. - Jim Davis As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. - Cleveland Amory By associating with the cat one only risks becoming richer. - Colette There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats. - Unknown
DogsDogs are not our whole lives, but they make our lives whole. - Roger Caras The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. - Anonymous Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. - Ann Landers If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Ben Williams The average dog is a nicer person than the average person. - Andy Rooney We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. In return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made. - M. Ackklam Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. - Rita Rudner A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perserverance, and to turn around three times before lying down. If I have any doubts about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money. - Joe Weinstein Ever consider what our dogs must think of us? I mean, when 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 in earth! - Anne Tyler 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 can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give yo a look that says, If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in you pocket and then giving Fido only two of them. A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. - Josh Billings Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog. - Franklin P. Jones If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven and very, very few persons. - James Thurber If your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise. - Unknown Speak softly and own a big, mean Doberman. - Dave Miliman My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am. - Unknown Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself also. - Samuel Butler For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love we call a dog. - Roger Caras I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent, devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source. - Doris Day Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. - Mark Twain He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. - Unknown A dog has the soul of a philosopher. - Plato If you want a friend for life, get a dog. - Harry S Truman Dogs are my favorite people. - Richard Dean Anderson No one, who has never pursued and successfully caught his tail, can have experienced to the fullness the true sense of achievement and satisfaction. - Rosalind Welcher If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. - Russian Proverb My dog friends seem to understand my limitations and always keep close beside me whan I am alone. I love their affectionate ways and the eloquent wag of their tails. - Helen Keller To err is human, to forive, canine. - Anonymous No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich. Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of the their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made. - Roger Caras Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window! - Steve Bluestone I once decided not to date a guy because he wasn't excited to meet my dog. I mean, this was like not wanting to meet my mother. - Bonnie Schacter My love, a love that's through and through. For my loyal friend, my dog, that's you. - Anonymous Perhaps the final test of anybody's love of dogs is willingness to permit them to make a camping ground of the bed. - Henry T. Merwin I think God will have prepared everything for our perfect happiness (in Heaven). If it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there. - Reverend Billy Graham Whenever I feel poor, I remember that I'd rather have my dogs than other people's money. - S. Conant Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail. - Henry Wheeler Shaw If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater...suggest that he wear a tail. - Annie Lebowitz If your dog doesn't like someone you probably shouldn't either. - Unknown Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit will. - Bonnie Wilcox In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. - Edward Hoagland Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring -- it was peace. - Milan Kundera A really companionable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along. - E.B. White I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. - George Bird Evans Even the tiniest Poodle or Chihuahua is still a wolf at heart. - Dorothy Hinshaw Dogs never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of beig interested in the conversation. - Jerome K. Jerome Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane. - Smiley Blanton
HorsesGod forbid that I should go to any Heaven in which there are no horses. - Robert B. Cunninghame-Graham No one can teach riding so well as a horse. - C.S. Lewis There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. - Winston Churchill Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. - W.C. Fields No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. - Winston Churchill No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as horses. - Hermann Melville Horses and children, I often think, have a lot of the good sense there is in the world. To ride a horse is to ride the sky. - Unknown A horse is a thing of such beauty, none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. - Xenophon A horse gallops with his lungs, perseveres with his heart, and wins with his character. - Tesio
This is so bizarre. If you stare at the picture below long enough, you will see a giraffe.
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