Donald McCaig Quotes

I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

Back during the most dramatic and challenging time in our history, when we first came together with wolves, we had no idea that it was changing everything, but we literally evolved together. Without us there would be no dogs, and vice versa.

There's a difference between good chemistry and a bond. Chemistry is something you have with somebody you meet - or you don't. It's an intangible. It may be superficial. It's much harder to put your finger on than a bond.

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

Veterinarians are essential allies to the millions of us who experience the human-animal bond.

Fiddling with the genetic identities of domesticated plants and animals ever since we had become human. We are the fiddlingest animal the world has ever seen.

For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.

When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.

We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of organisms and biological things that wouldn't be here were it not for us.

Being in a relationship, that's something you choose. Being friends, that's something you just are.

I always say that chemistry is something impossible to manufacture. It's either there or it isn't. The fact that you're friends doesn't necessarily equate to great chemistry.

Love either finds equality or makes it.

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.

It is the difference betwixt lust and love that this is fixed, that volatile. Love grows, lust wastes by enjoyment.

It's interesting that you don't always fall in love with someone that you're perfectly perfect for.

A powerful connection between two people is a potent psychic factor that exists regardless of either person's opinion about the relationship.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift others up.

Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.

To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods.

I know you think I was pressured into binding myself with you before, but that's not true,I always intended to marry you, kitten.

A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.

Marriage is what happens when one at least of the partners doesn't want the other to get away.