- "Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted."
-- Anonymous - "If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about...five minutes."
-- Anonymous - " A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot; a dog travelling with good men becomes a rational being."
--Arabian Proverb - "I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals."
--Brigitte Bardot - "A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down."
-- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945) - "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 - "All of the animals excepting man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it."
--Samuel Butler - "A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent."
--John Calvin - "Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you."
--Elias Canetti, The Human Province - "I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot."
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show - "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
-- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) - "I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul."
-- Jean Cocteau - "... I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long periods of time."
-- Colette - "What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak toys?"
-- Douglas Coupland - "Man is the most intelligent of the animals -- and the most silly."
-- Diogenes - "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
-- George Eliot - "In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats."
-- English Proverb - "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 - "When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, inches above the ground. With a giant buttered-cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago."
-- John Frazee - " Diamonds are a girl's best friend and dogs are a man's best friend. Now you know which sex has more sense."
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor - "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
--Mohandas Gandhi - "Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to."
--Joe Gores
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