Pets

Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it’s easy to forget they’re not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don’t say anything back.

—Stephenie Geist

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

—Fran Lebowitz

Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

—George Eliot

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

—Frances Wright