"If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." -- Mark Twain --

 "A few alligators are naturally of the vicious type and inclined to resent it when you prod them with a stick. You can find out which ones these are by prodding them." -- Will Cuppy --

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

"Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world." -- Munia Khan --

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior." -- Hippolyte A. Taine --

"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies." -- Gene Hill --

 "A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down." -- Robert Benchley --

 "Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test . . . consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals." -- Milan Kundera --

 "One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear." -- J. B. Morton --

 "Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky --

 "Horses make a landscape look beautiful." -- Alice Walker --

 "If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion." -- Criss Jami --

 "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 -- 

 "Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either." -- Stephen King --

"Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neighter are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being." -- Gary Kowalski --

 "Animals don't lie. Animals don't criticize. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do." -- Betty White --

"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 -- 

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

 "Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them." -- Elvis Presley --

"Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?" -- Voltaire --