1. Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. - Joseph Wood Krutch 

2. Chadron had a water tower, grain elevators, a tanning salon, a video rental store, a small liberal arts college, a Hardee's, a stoplight, and a curling yellow sign in the pet store window that read, 'Hamsters and Tarantulas Featured Today.' - Poe Ballantine 

3. Children are my pet cause. I have a foster child in El Salvador, and whenever I'm home, I work for the Adam Walsh Foundation, which finds missing children. I also do some hospital visits and other things for the Make-a-Wish Foundation. - Jane Badler 

4. Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own. - Frederick Pollock 

5. Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other. - Robert Benchley 

6. Definitely, when I have a place and I'm going to be there for any significant amount of time, I want to have dogs. I like a pet you can have some fun with and who does everything you do. - Nick Lachey 

7. Disrespect is my biggest pet peeve. - Bill Goldberg 

8. Do not make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans or they will treat you like dogs. - Martha Scott 

9. Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell. - Emily Dickinson 

10. Dogs are my favorite people. - Richard Dean Anderson 

11. Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole. - Roger Caras 

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

13. Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way. - Quentin Tarantino 

14. Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. - Max Eastman 

15. Dogs really are perfect soldiers. They are brave and smart; they can smell through walls, see in the dark, and eat Army rations without complaint. - Susan Orlean 

16. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. - Ann Landers 

17. Don't buy furs: that's No. 1. You can start with that. Then spay and neuter your pets. We destroy millions of them a year. Go to an animal shelter for a cat or dog. And read a book about how to care properly for your particular pet. - Loretta Swit 

18. Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. - George Carlin 

19. Environmentalists hate sprawl - except when it comes to the size of their expansive pet legislation on Capitol Hill. - Michelle Malkin 

20. Even cats grow lonely and anxious. - Mason Cooley 

21. Even in a culture where people are well meaning, there are sometimes 'microaggressions.' People who will just cut you off. You'll be talking, and someone will interrupt you. That's become a big pet peeve of mine. - Susan Wojcicki 

22. Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth! - Anne Tyler 

23. Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you? - Alyssa Milano 

24. Every time someone buys a cat or a dog from a breeder or a pet shop, a cat on the streets or in an animal shelter loses his or her chance at finding a good home. - Amy Jackson 

25. For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life. - Jojo Moyes 

26. For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet. - Eckhart Tolle 

27. For me, it's always been one of my pet peeves to keep people engaged and talking, and just always being interested in what I have going on. To keep the level of creativity always turned up to the max. - Future 

28. Growing up in Kansas City, I was always neat, the teacher's pet, know-it-all type. - Gretchen Rubin 

29. Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys. - Erin O'Connor 

30. Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar. - Joel Hodgson 

31. Having a pet spayed or neutered actually extends its lifespan by a few years and reduces any aggressive traits or tendencies. - Suzy Shuster 

32. Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings. - Ted Yoho 

33. He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. - Immanuel Kant 

34. Humans should always exercise and watch what they eat. So with your pet, make sure they get enough exercise, make sure they're getting fed at the same time every day and getting the nutrition they need. And make sure they get a lot of love and attention you both need. That's why you have them! - Alison Sweeney 

35. Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom. - Marcel Duchamp 

36. I adopted a pet because I have been wanting one for the longest time. In fact, I am really close to Ravi Dubey's dog Moyo. - Rithvik Dhanjani 

37. I already have a pet project called Project Shakti and it aims on educating women on menstruation cycle. - Manushi Chhillar 

38. I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with. - Juan Gris 

39. I always want to try to make films feel timeless, because one of my biggest pet peeves is that there's a movie you love, and then you revisit it twenty years later, you show your kid or something, and it's like, 'Oh my God!' with hairstyles and clothing and all that kind of stuff. - Francis Lawrence 

40. 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. - Alyson Stoner