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Life Celebration Quotes

Friendship Quotes

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Significant Others, Partners & Friendship

Philosophical Insights on Friendship

Friendship, Love and Growth

Books and Art as Friends

Friendship and Hardship

Bittersweet is Friendship

Humor and Friendship

Supportive Friendship

Family and Friendship

Happiness is a Friend

​Enduring Friendships

False Friends

Animal Friends

          Dog Friends

          Cat Friends

Albert Einstein

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.

 

Alfred Armand Montapert

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.

 

Anatole France

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

 

Betty White

When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

 

Camille

My experience protesting with Mojave Dolphins, and the other wonderful animal activists, can be described in a few words: inspiring, motivational and purposeful. The execution of the protests is incredible; the signs are amazing, creative and eye catching. You can really feel the unity in the group, running like a well oiled machine towards the goal of liberating our captive animal friends.

Eckhart Tolle

Our animal friends’ non-reactive and forgiving natures can teach us positive spiritual lessons on a daily basis.

George Bernard Shaw

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

 

George Eliot

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

 

Rita Rudner

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

 

Robert Breault

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

 

Roger Fouts

Growing up on a farm taught me a reverence for all forms of life. We were a large and poor farm family, so that meant that we had to kill and eat our animal friends. When you do that you are aware of the sacrifice that someone is making so that you may live. My mother always made sure we were thankful for those precious gifts.

 

Timothy Treadwell

I'm in love with my animal friends.

 

Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

 

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Dog Friends

Agnes Repplier

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.

Aldous Huxley

To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.

 

Alexander Pope

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

 

Charles de Gaulle

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

 

Doris Day

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.

 

Douglas Malloch

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turns to fog; but you’re never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

 

Edith Wharton

My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet.

 

Groucho Marx

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

 

Josh Billings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

 

Why not share this as a gift

with the animal lover in your life?

J. R. Ackerley

A dog has one aim in life… to bestow his heart.

 

Josh Billings

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

 

Mary Oliver

A dog can never tell you what she knows from the smells of the world, but you know, watching her, that you know almost nothing.

 

Milan Kundera

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

 

Ogden Nash

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

 

Orhan Pamuk

Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.

 

Patricia B. McConnell

Dogs are our bridge – our connection to who we really are, and most tellingly, who we want to be.

 

Robert Wagner

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad.

 

Roger Caras

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

 

 

If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

 

 

Stanley Coren

The greatest fear dogs know is the fear that you will not come back when you go out the door without them.

 

Suzanne Clothier

One of the great pleasures of being with dogs is their spontaneous expression of what they are feeling.

 

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Unknown

Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.

 

Unknown

If the kindest souls were rewarded with the longest lives, dogs would outlive us all.

 

Will Rogers

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

 

Woodrow Wilson

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

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Cat Friends

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​​​Abraham Lincoln

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

 

Albert Schweitzer

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

 

Beth Campbell

A house is not a home without a cat.

 

Doug Larson

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

 

Ellie Goulding

I’m obsessed now. I never thought I was gonna be one of those people who was gonna post photos of a lot of animals, and now I am. I’m Catwoman.

 

Julia Child

A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.

 

Kristin Cast

Cats choose us; we don’t own them.

 

Paula Cole

Just watching my cats can make me happy. Probably more than is healthy.

 

Unknown

A cat mom’s heart is always full, thanks to her fur babies.

 

Unknown

A cat mom’s love is just as fierce and unconditional as any other mother’s.

 

Unknown

All you need is love and a cat

 

Unknown

Cat moms understand the importance of a good cuddle.

 

Unknown

Cats are like potato chips, you can’t have just one.

 

Unknown

Cats are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

 

Unknown

I am not a crazy cat lady, I am a dedicated cat mom.

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