Pope Francis Quotes

Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)

I have two pets - a dog and a cat.

If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.

Pets require feeding, training, affection and exercise, but in return they offer unconditional love and companionship.

If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.

Dogs serve people, but people serve cats.

People always want to compare their dogs to having kids. That's insulting. First of all, nobody has a dog because they were too drunk to pull out.

Everybody should have a shelter dog. It's good for the soul.

I am a pet person. My dog actually lives in Georgia now. But I work with animal trainers and pets quite often. I also volunteer at different places like animal shelters. It's good to be around pets. They kind of put things into perspective. They're easygoing, loyal, and they seem to get it, even when humans don't.

Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

I didn't grow up with pets, but I live alone and figured a dog might be good for me. His name is Drexl, and he's a shih-tzu.

Acquiring a dog may be the only opportunity a human ever has to choose a relative.

Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog.

If someone was out all day, we wouldn't give them just one cat, because they would be lonely - we would give them two cats.

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

Pray steal me not, I'm Mrs. Dingley's, Whose heart in this four-footed thing lies.

Living with a dog is easy- like living with an idealist.

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. It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.

Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

There are dog people and cat people.

You know, the man's best friend is his dog... if he's got nothing else.

I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I’m humbly aware of how much less a person I’d be – how less a human – if they did not exist.

There is no doubt that every healthy, normal boy...should own a dog at some time in his life, preferably between the ages of forty-five and fifty.