Being patted is what it is all about.

We derive immeasurable good, uncounted pleasures, enormous security, and many critical lessons about life by owning dogs.

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.

It looks like a miniature hippopotamus with badly-fitting panty hose all over.

Generally, or at least very often, people with a deep interest in animals are the best people around.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is supposed to feel as much of the time as possible.

Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.

Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Hail Caesar those who are about to die salute thee.

Liverpool can play for only five minutes and win the game, that is the way they are. They pump the ball into the box and with good set-piece delivery they keep you under pressure.

Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive.

I heard that all the time. ‘He makes it look too easy, he doesn’t run hard.’ It was always a slight on me.

I'm very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.

Speak the truth. Transparency breeds legitimacy.

The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

The trend now is to shoot in Canada because it's cheaper, and they don't care what the location is.