Subject: Animals (Page 14)

Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.


Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

(1907 – 1988) science fiction author

Under any given set of environmental conditions an experimental animal behaves as it damn well pleases.

Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you.

(1962 – ) American English professor & writer under pen name Eloisa James

To err is human; to purr, feline.

(1930 – ) American author and billiard player, teacher & commentator

I wanna put stickers on turtles… I don’t know why.

(1973 – ) American comedian

You can’t lose a homing pigeon; if your homing pigeon doesn’t come back, then what you’ve lost is a pigeon.

(1981 – ) English writer, stand-up comedian & actress

Yesterday I was a dog… today I’m a dog… tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There’s so little hope for advancement.

cartoon character in, Peanuts, by Charles Schulz (1922 – 2000)

When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as if the strings are still in the cat.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Black beauty – he's a dark horse.

(1967 – ) English actor, writer & comedian

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

(1906 – 1998) English-born American comedian

I wonder what goes through [your dog’s] mind when he sees us peeing in his water bowl.

American writer

I think Bigfoot is blurry, that’s the problem; there’s a large out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong… [they] know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why they kill you.

(1978 – ) American comedian & writer

Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

It’s weird… people say they’re not like apes, but how do you explain football then?

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Why do I always meet women as I’m leaving the dog park with a big bag of poop? … and it’s always on the day I forgot my dog…

(1964 – ) American comedian

Happiness is a warm puppy with an empty bladder.

My dog’s favorite bone is in my arm!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

How come dogs hate it if you blow in their faces; but when they get in the car, they stick their heads out the window.

(1952 – ) comedian