Animals

The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears.  Arabian Proverb
 
In riding a horse we borrow freedom.  Helen Thomson
 
It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!  Nicholas Evans
 
No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.  Winston Churchill
 
The horses paw and prance and neigh,
Fillies and colts like kittens play,
And dance and toss their rippled manes
Shining and soft as silken skeins:...
-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
 
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; The earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.  William Shakespeare
 
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.  Sharon Ralls Lemon
 
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.  Will Rogers
 
Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you later.  Mary Bly
 
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
 
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through the snow.  Jeff Valdez
 
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.  Alfred North Whitehead
 
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has laugh on the right end.  Max Eastman
 
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.  Derek Bruce
 
What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? I wish I knew...Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.  Isaac Williams
 
Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, they make no criticisms.  Author Unknown
 
Man is the only animal that laughs, but when you look at some people, it's hard to understand how the animals keep from laughing.  Author Unknown
 
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.  George Orwell
 
An ape is an ape even though it wears golden ornaments.  Latin Proverb
 
The bee is held in more honor than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.  John Chrysostom
 
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.  Oliver Herford
 
There are no ordinary cats.  Colette
 
Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.  E. V. Lucas
 
Her function is to sit and be admired.  Georgina Strickland Gates of cats
 
A dog is a dog, a bird is a bird, and a cat is a person.  Mugsy Peabody
 
Cats are absolute individuals, with their own ideas about everything, including the people they own.  John Dingman
 
A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.  William Kunstler
 
If animals could speak as fabulists have feigned, the dog would be a blunt, outspoken, honest fellow, but the cat would have the rare talent of never saying a word too much.  Carl Van Vechten
 
To someone Very Good and Just,
Who has proved worthy of her trust,
A Cat will sometimes condescend -
The Dog is Everybody’s Friend.
-Oliver Herford-
 
Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren’t like this. A dog’s idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.  James Gorman
 
Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.  Desmond Morris
 
A cat has a terrific sense of humor, but it sees nothing funny or cute parading in doll's clothes. A dachshund, on the other hand is delighted to be dressed in little lederhosen and an Alpine sweater.  Robert Stearns
 
If I tell my dog, 'Come here,' he runs right over with a 'yes, what can I do for you?' look. The cat's response is 'Put it in writing, and I'll get back to you'.  Anonymous
 
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.  English Proverb
 
The dog wakes three times to watch over his master; the cat wakes three times to strangle him.  French Proverb
 
A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes.  Indian Proverb
 
And God gave man dominion over every living thing that moves upon the earth - except cats.  Anonymous
 
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.  Joseph Wood Krutch
 
A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.  William Lyon Phelps
 
Cats everywhere asleep on the shelves like motorized bookends.  Audrey Thomas
 
Gentlemen of the Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog...When all other friends desert, he remains.  George Graham Vest
 
Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit.  Sir Walter Scott
 
The gingham dog went Bow-wow-wow!
And the calico cat replied Mee-ow!
The air was littered, an hour or so,
With bits of gingham and calico.
-Eugene Field-
 
Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.  Author Unknown
 
Another reason why a dog is man's best friend is because he's not always calling for explanations.  Author Unknown
 
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, foremost to defend.  Lord Byron
 
High diddle diddle
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such craft
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
-Nursery Rhyme-
 
Little boy blue, come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn;
But where is the boy who looks after the sheep?
He's under the haystack fast asleep.
-Nursery Rhyme-
 
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.  Abraham Lincoln
 
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us: we can dodge an elephant, but we can't a fly.  Henry Wheeler Shaw
 
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
 
Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground.  Anonymous
 
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.  Will Rogers
 
Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.  Jacquelyn Mitchard
 
Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.  James Bryant Conant, Past President of Harvard University