Jack Lemmon Quotes

I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

I love both the way a dog looks up to me and a cat condescends to me.

If a dog jumps into 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.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

Animals may be our friends, but they won't pick you up at the airport.

Dogs like everyone. Cats choose who to like.

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship.

I have had a long unabashed love affair with dogs that stretches back to early childhood.

There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence.

I know well enough that there have been dogs so loving that they have thrown themselves into the same grave with the dead bodies of their masters.

Man himself cannot express love and humility by external signs, so plainly as does a dog, when with drooping ears, hanging lips, flexuous body, and wagging tail, he meets his beloved master.

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by-

Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in this world of pickings and caresses is, perhaps, the business of their lives.

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.

People who wish to salute the free and independent side of their evolutionary character acquire cats. People who wish to pay homage to their servile and salivating roots own dogs.