Day 1
Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.
-- Francis Galton
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Day 2
You enter a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
-- Nora Ephron
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Day 3
A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.
-- Billy Graham
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Day 4
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
-- Robertson Davies
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Day 5
Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
-- Agnes Turnbull
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Day 6
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
-- Oliver Herford
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Day 7
Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of this country as Wall Street and railroads.
-- Harry S. Truman
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Day 8
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
-- Agatha Christie
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Day 9
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.
-- Max Eastman
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Day 10
When all candles be out, all cats be gray.
-- John Heywood
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Day 11
Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
-- William James
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Day 12
I hope you love birds, too. It is economical. It saves going to Heaven.
-- Emily Dickinson
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Day 13
He's fair. He treats us all the same like dogs.
-- Henry Jordan
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Day 14
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
-- Alexander Pope
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Day 15
Only the most foolish of mice would hide in the cat's ear but only the wisest of cats would think to look there.
-- Scott Love
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Day 16
If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
-- Andy Rooney
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Day 17
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Day 18
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
-- William Penn
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Day 19
At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.
-- Derek Wall
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Day 20
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch
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Day 21
The great tie that binds us to dogs is not their fidelity or their charm or anything else but the fact that they are not critical of us.
-- Sydney J. Harris
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Day 22
It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.
-- Alexander Theroux
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Day 23
Birds sing after a storm, why shouldn't we?
-- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Day 24
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then a cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.
-- Doris Lessing
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Day 25
The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.
-- Jeanne-Marie Roland
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Day 26
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
-- Eric Berne
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Day 27
How monotonous the sounds of the forest would be if the music came only from the Top Ten birds.
-- Dan Bennett
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Day 28
Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.
-- Joseph Stalin
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Day 29
Don't make the mistake of treating your dogs like humans, or they'll treat you like dogs.
-- Martha Scott
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Day 30
The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also -- his mind one a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.
-- James Allen
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Day 31
If I have any belief about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
-- James Thurber
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