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"Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass."

Addison, Joseph on animals    Share


"Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats."

Allen, Woody on animals
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"We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better."

Americans, Native on animals    Share

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."

Aristotle on animals
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"Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals."

Beaumarchais, Pierre De on animals    Share

"The dog is the god of frolic."

Beecher, Henry Ward on animals
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"I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em."

Belloc, Hilaire on animals    Share

"A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but."

Berger, John on animals    Share

"Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made."

Berryman, John on animals    Share

"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."

Billings, Josh on animals
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"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."

Butler, Samuel on animals
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"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."

Butler, Samuel on animals    Share

"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend."

Byron, Lord on animals
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"Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind."

Chazal, Malcolm De on animals    Share

"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."

Cicero, Marcus T. on animals
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"Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on animals    Share

"Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away."

Confucius on animals
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"Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

Eliot, George on animals
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"Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on animals    Share

"Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it."

Hegel, Georg on animals    Share

"Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts."

Hoagland, Edward on animals    Share

"Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't."

Hoban, Russell on animals    Share

"Animals often strike us as passionate machines."

Hoffer, Eric on animals    Share

"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings."

Hugo, Victor on animals
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"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."

James, Henry on animals    Share

"Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it."

Kundera, Milan on animals
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"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."

Landers, Ann on animals    Share

"Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts."

Lawrence, D. H. on animals    Share

"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."

Lewis, Joe E. on animals    Share

"Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!"

Lord, Shirley on animals
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"Eagles do not beget Doves."

Motto on animals    Share

"The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk."

Nash, Ogden on animals    Share

"I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on animals
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"Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door."

Ogburn, Charleton Jr. on animals    Share

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