Author of quotes: James Herriot

Years and years of having to jump up at the crack of dawn kindled in me a frenzied love for my warm bed.

Her thin, slightly hunched figure and wrinkled face testified to difficult times. Many old men and women in Yorkshire had such faces - severe, but kind.

Big dogs are kept in small houses, and small dogs live in big houses.

I married a beautiful, intelligent, sincere girl and wished with all my heart that she would be kinder to herself and at least someday rest. In the first days of marriage, I tried to make her not overstrain with pleas, and sometimes stormy scenes that I didn’t really succeed in, but I could just as well convince a stone wall, ”Helen stubbornly continued to clean up. And more cooking.

John, a very well-bred, very correct young man, unlike most veterinarians, never swears. However, it turned out that he possessed a huge store of these words - some I did not even know, which is surprising, since I grew up in Glasgow.

I have rarely been visited by new ideas - in fact, I have an organic aversion to any changes and innovations.

There was no way to please him, he verbally rolled over people like a steamroller, driving them into the ground, and treated everyone like the dumbest recruits in his regiment.

There is no greater pleasure than waking up at night, realizing that it is too early to get up, turning over and falling asleep.

The old corduroy trousers were asking for retirement, as well as my entire wardrobe. However, the needs of two growing children were much more important than my own.

By succumbing to annoyance, anger, you primarily harm yourself, and, believe me, life for you will become completely different if only you develop in yourself my serene view of the world.

I do not want to give the impression that I recommend general anesthesia as a panacea for all diseases afflicted by animals, but I firmly know that artificial sleep has salutary properties. Now that we have all sorts of hypnotics and tranquilizers at our disposal, and I am faced with acute gastroenteritis in a dog, I resort to some of them in addition to the usual treatment. Because sleep interrupts the deadly exhausting vicious circle, relieves the pain and fear accompanying it.

Like humans, animals need friends.

Amazing there are people! Just don't get it, how is it possible to leave a helpless animal to fend for themselves.

Washing itself by the fire the cat gives the room a special comfort.