100 Awesome Pet Quotes For The National Pet Day

Make your pet happy on this day with these inspiring quotes!

1. “An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.” – Martin Buber

2. “Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.” – George Eliot

3. “Animals are my friends … and I don’t eat my friends.” – George Bernard Shaw

4. “Cats are angels with fur.” – Sark

5. “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.” – Milan Kundera

6. “The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.” – Jules Renard

7. “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” – Mahatma Gandhi

8. “Actually, my dog I think is the only person who consistently loves me all the time.” – H. G. Bissinger

9. “Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.” – James Cromwell

10. “There’s a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.” – Unknown

11. “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

12. “Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.” – W. L. George

13. “Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.” – Robert Wagner

14. “Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.” – Michael Morpurgo

15. “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

16. “My little dog – A heartbeat at my feet.” – Edith Wharton

17. “It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.” – Haile Selassie

18. “There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” – Albert Schweitzer

19. “The dog is the god of frolic.” – Henry Ward Beecher

20. “Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.” – Quentin Tarantino

21. “I’ve always been mad about cats.” – Vivien Leigh

22. “The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” – Leonardo Da Vinci

23. “Your pet is not your friend. It is your hostage.” – Scott Dikkers (author: You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day)

24. “Everyone is taught that angels have wings –– the lucky ones of us find that they have four paws.” – Jury Nel

25. “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

26. “Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.” – William S. Borroughs

27. “Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans.” – Robert Wagner

28. “Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.” – John Grogan

29. “I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.” – Abraham Lincoln

30. “Cats have it all—admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.” – Rod McKuen

31. “It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.” – Unknown

32. “Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.” – Joseph Wood Krutch

33. “I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He’s not just a cat, he’s my friend.” – Tracey Emin

34. “I think there’s something great and generic about goldfish. They’re everybody’s first pet.” – Paul Rudd

35. “I’ve always been mad about cats.” – Vivien Leigh

A great gift to your pet is to express your unconditional love!

1. “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” – Anatole France

2. “When I look into the eyes of an animal I do not see an animal. I see a living being. I see a friend. I feel a soul.” – A.D. Williams

3. “There is no Psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” – Bernard Williams

4. “Animals know. They know how a soul is stitched together. They know what it’s made of before anyone else gets a clue.” – Alex A. King (author: Seven Days of Friday)

5. “A dog’s love is only second to that of a mother’s.” – Radhika Mundra

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

7. “Pets reflect you like mirrors. When you are happy, you can see your dog smiling and when you are sad, your cat cries.” – Munia Khan

8. “A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.” – Josh Billings

9. “Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in  the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.” – Amy Sedaris (author, Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People)

10. “I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” – Abraham Lincoln

11. “Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.” – Dean Koontz

12. “Armadillos make affectionate pets, if you need affection that much.” – Will Cuppy

13. “A dog teaches you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.” – Unknown

14. “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

15. “Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.” – Irene M. Pepperberg

16. “No time on earth is long enough to share with the animals we love, or prepare our hearts to say goodbye!” – Unknown

17. “My sunshine doesn’t come from the skies, it comes from the love in my dogs eyes.” – Unknown

18. “Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.” – Charles Darwin

19. “Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.” – Jeanne Phillips

20. “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” – Hippolyte Taine

 Freak your pet with these funny and crazy quotes!

1. “Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.” – Colette

2. “Pets. Life’s apology for every crappy day ever.” – Unknown

3. “Wherever there is animal worship there is human sacrifice.” – K. Chesterton (author, The Uses of Diversity)

4. “Time spent with cats is never wasted.” – Sigmund Freud

5. “Love comes in fur & paws, too.” – Anthony T. Hincks

6. “Properly trained, a man can be dog’s best friend.” – Corey Ford

7. “If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.” – Mark Twain

8. “Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – Ann Landers

9. “Dogs teach us a very important lesson in life: The mail man is not to be trusted” – Sian Ford

10. “Dogs have owners, cats have staff.” – Unknown

11. “If you want the best seat in the house, you’ll have to move the dog.” – Anonymous

12. “To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don’t need any spoiling or looking after.” – Karl Pilkington

13. “Your pet is not your friend. It is your hostage.” – Scott Dikkers

14. “If you’re uncomfortable around my dog, I’m happy to lock you in the other room when you come over.” – Anonymous

15. “Never stand between a dog and the fire hydrant.” – John Peer

16. “A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.” – Groucho Marx

Appreciating your pet is a way of providing love and honor to them!

1. “The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.” – Charles Darwin

2. “The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.” – Martin Heidegger

3. “Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind – it is only the difference in the victim.” – Alphonse de Lamartine

4. “When you look into the eyes of an animal you’ve rescued, you can’t help but fall in love.” – Paul Shaffer

5. “If it’s true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers. I love my pets, and I’m a big animal lover. I also enjoy the nature and countryside.” – Amy Jackson

6. “People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.” – David Attenborough

7. “Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.” – Mila Kundera (author, The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

8. “I just love dogs, and there really is no better companion than an animal.” – Rita Rudner

9. “I’m kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.” – Yoko Ono

10. “Animals are my friends…and I don’t eat my friends.” – George Bernard Shaw

11. “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” – Winston S. Churchill

12. “The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.” – Mark Twain

A bright living being with vibrant colors, birds just melt your heart with their looks!

1. “I’m very happy being me, although sometimes I’d love to be a bird so that I could fly.” – Joy Fielding

2. “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” – William Blake

3. “I’m not really a bird person or an Audubon guy who studies them, but as I was around them, they interested me.” – Gordon Lightfoot (Singer and songwriter)

4. “The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” – William Blake

5. “The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.” – Carly Simon

6. “The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp.” – John Berry

7. “It’s like being a bird, maybe, the perspective of flying over the Earth.” – Peggy Whitsontbird

8. “I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

9. “I like the idea of taking off like a bird.” – Florence Welch

10. “The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door.” – Demetri Martin

11. “Birds teach us something very important: To whatever height you rise, you will finally come down to the ground!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

12. “Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.” – Carol P. Christ

13. And the eagle flies with the dove. And if you can’t be with the one you love, honey, love the one you’re with.” – Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

14. “Birds are the eyes of heaven, and flies are the spies of hell.” – Suzy Kassem (author, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kasse)

15. “Feed the birds in winter; in return, they will feed your soul with the look of gratitude!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan

Showing a token of love is a healing medicine for your hilarious pet!

1. “No heaven will not ever Heaven be. Unless my cats are there to welcome me.” – Anonymous

2. “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” – Will Rogers