Animals Quotes
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The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to as a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut Jr)
The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future. (Quote by - Terry Tempest Williams)
CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.". (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, when his wing is bruised and his bosom sore; when he beats his bars and he would be free, it is not a carol of joy or glee, but a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core. (Quote by - Paul Laurence Dunbar)
I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer. (Quote by - David Sedaris)
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. (Quote by - Loren Eiseley)
Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. (Quote by - Plato)
Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.''. (Quote by - Malcolm de Chazal)
The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture. (Quote by - Ben Folds)
Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'. (Quote by - Buddha)
Lots of people talk to animals.. Not very many listen, though.. That's the problem. (Quote by - Benjamin Hoff)
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals. (Quote by - St. Thomas Aquinas)
The spectator is a dying animal. (Quote by - Jim Morrison)
You're a good example of why some animals eat their young. (Quote by - Jim Samuels)
It's wonderful if you have a passion for animals. But in a disaster, you have to keep your emotions in check. There are tons and tons of animal lovers who could help in the background. (Quote by - Connie Cramer)
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
If we're not supposed to eat animals, how come they're made out of meat?. (Quote by - Tom Snyder)
Before long it will be the animals who do the dieting so that the ultimate consumer does not have to. (Quote by - Mimi Sheraton)
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
We at Hempstead Town want to make it easier for our residents to adopt one of our animal shelter's wonderful cats and dogs. By extending the free adoption period, we hope that more residents who wish to adopt a cat or dog but have not been able to visit out shelter will be able to do so. (Quote by - Kate Murray)
It quickly became obvious to us that not only the animals in the wild had a problem, but so did the animals in captivity. (Quote by - Tippi Hedren)
Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us. (Quote by - Sylvia Browne)
Tolkien thought there were too many elements that clashed: a Father Christmas and an evil witch, talking animals and children. He did not like allegory and thought Lewis's book was too pushy in a Christian sense. (Quote by - Norman Stone)
A rat is not born a rabbit. (Quote by - Proverb)
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. (Quote by - George Orwell)
One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation. (Quote by - Chanakya)
I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it. (Quote by - Kelly Osbourne)
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked. (Quote by - Haile Selassie)
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Not smart animals, which is why people do get bit once in a while. I was wearing a wet suit that was silver. So when I move around, it believed my head was a fish. So this shark with his mouth open was coming towards my head. I pushed it away because I freaked out. And the director later told me that that was happening to my double all day. He was like, 'I wasn't sure if it was going to happen to you.' I'm like, 'Thanks for the heads up!' . (Quote by - Jessica Alba)
It seemed right for this particular type of [stop-motion] animation. It's like casting; you want to marry the medium with the material. (Quote by - Tim Burton)
Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
Even a wolf will not stay - Where sounds no bleat to offer hope of prey. (Quote by - Greek proverb)
I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.. [They] are an obligation put on us, a responsibility we have no right to neglect, nor to violate by cruelty. (Quote by - James Herriot)
Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity- these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Reverence for life starts usually with the first pet. If you can get kids to care and associate with animals from an early age, they're far more likely to have a care and concern for all life when they're teenagers. (Quote by - Bret Sellers)
A dog wags its tail with its heart. (Quote by - Martin Buxbaum)
If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. (Quote by - Theophile Gautier)
Animals are excellent role models for forgiveness, .. There is no holding back of the love. (Quote by - Christine Robinson)
Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
Some animals have a lot of nerve - they get caught in my teeth!. (Quote by - Craig Bruce)
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. (Quote by - Jessamyn West)
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)
Every dog must have his day. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
The rain water enlivens all living beings of the earth both movable (insects, animals, humans, etc.) and immovable (plants, trees, etc.), and then returns to the ocean it value multiplied a million fold. (Quote by - Chanakya)
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous. (Quote by - Yvonne Craig)
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. (Quote by - Mario Vargas Llosa)
Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant. (Quote by - Amy Leslie)
Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation. (Quote by - John Cassavetes)
The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all. (Quote by - Michael J. Fox)
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. (Quote by - Steve Bluestone)
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. (Quote by - George Eliot)
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an ax-murderer. (Quote by - Paula Poundstone)
When we went back to our place, it was a mess. Everything from the smell of dead animals to dead people. But we were luckier than a lot of people. There are still people living in tents, still people homeless. We had nowhere else to go. (Quote by - Connie Henderson)
Man, unlike animals, has never learned that the sole purpose in life is to enjoy it. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. (Quote by - William Osler)
It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still. (Quote by - Bill Bailey)
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals. (Quote by - Theodor W. Adorno)
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia. (Quote by - Joseph Wood Krutch)
There may be some burning animals, .. We'll see what happens. (Quote by - Sam Endicott)
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. (Quote by - James Thurber)
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal..one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. (Quote by - Theophile Gautier)
Let me assure you that all of our pets, and animals of every kind will be with us for eternity on the Other Side. (Quote by - Sylvia Browne)
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. (Quote by - Jules Verne)
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. (Quote by - George Orwell)
I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie. (Quote by - Edith Head)
Violence in any form is evil and to kill innocent animals in tantamount to blatant savagery. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, / From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical. (Quote by - William S. Gilbert)
Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad. (Quote by - W. C. Fields)
There is something wholly likeable about most people who write about animals. (Quote by - Eric Duthie)
Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood. (Quote by - Phil Donahue)
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her. (Quote by - Ellen DeGeneres)
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals. (Quote by - Brigitte Bardot)
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries. (Quote by - Romain Rolland)
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies. (Quote by - Abraham Maslow)
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
We are trying to do ground and air patrol to ensure that the problem animals do not cause any havoc and to try to drive the elephants back to the park. (Quote by - Connie Maina)
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
You have to save the habitat, you have to save the population - not individual animals. What you want to save is the foundation, the basic infrastructure from which resources are produced. You can't save Fifi and Boo-Boo and Thumper. (Quote by - Ted Nugent)
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. (Quote by - Terence McKenna)
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?. (Quote by - Isadora Duncan)
People are always the start for me.. animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead.. these are all people to me. (Quote by - Tanith Lee)
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals. (Quote by - Malcolm X)
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say -- and to feel -- ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''. (Quote by - John Steinbeck)
Every dog is a lion at home. (Quote by - H. G. Bohn)
Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not. (Quote by - David Seabury)
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times. (Quote by - Isaac Bashevis Singer)
We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. (Quote by - Barbara Kingsolver)
My music is best understood by children and animals. (Quote by - Igor Stravinsky)
I would love to have an animal sanctuary in Franklin County. We're looking for someone who could donate the land. Five or 10 acres would be enough. (Quote by - Connie Guthrie)
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Those who experiment on animals should never be able to quiet their own conscience by telling themselves that these cruelties have a worthy aim. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw. (Quote by - François R. Chateaubriand)
My favorite animal is steak. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
I do love animals. (Quote by - Dennis Rodman)
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. (Quote by - Emile Zola)
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. (Quote by - Arnold Toynbee)
Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
The explanation of types of structure in classes - as resulting from the will of the Deity, to create animals on certain plans - is no explanation. It has not the character of a physical law and is therefore utterly useless. It foretells nothing because we know nothing of the will of the Deity, how it acts and whether constant or inconstant like that of man. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
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. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. (Quote by - Alfred A. Montapert)
British ferries have stopped transporting live animals to the Continent. This has made it very difficult for England fans to get to away matches. (Quote by - Jo Brand)
Potentially many thousands of animals. (Quote by - Ian Wilmut)
He is inside as well as outside all beings, animate and inanimate. He is incomprehensible because of His subtlety. He is very near as well as far away. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. (Quote by - Umberto Eco)
I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal. (Quote by - Drew Barrymore)
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate. (Quote by - Carolyn Heilbrun)
This is the epitaph I want on my tomb: "Here lies one of the most intelligent animals who ever appeared on the face of the earth. (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)
He's an animal, everybody knows that. We just came at him with different traps. He weighs so much and he's so talented offensively. He can put it on the floor, he can shoot it, and he's so hard to keep off the glass because he's so big. (Quote by - Joakim Noah)
If it were feasible to use animals as organ donors, an unlimited supply would potentially become instantly available. (Quote by - Anthony Warrens)
I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas and ideals .. and silliness. (Quote by - Bill Watterson)
Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later. (Quote by - Mary Bly)
Time spent with cats is never wasted. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Deep sea animals show incredible promise as natural sources of bio-medically active compounds. Compounds that are used as anti-biotics and other medicines, .. (Sponges) presumably show good promise to fight diseases such as asthma, tuberculosis, cancer and even AIDS. (Quote by - Bob Stone)
Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
My most treasured possessions are not things, they are only things, my friends, family and animals are what counts. (Quote by - Olivia Newton-John)
Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats - all human life is there. (Quote by - Henry James)
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
We felt he was too traumatized to stay here in the kennel. We have a lot of animals who desperately need a little time in a foster situation so they can recover from some sort of trauma. (Quote by - Colleen Macuk)
Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more horse sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating -- and he knows when to stop working. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
It's two thirds cheaper than other animated films. As animated films go this is low budget. (Quote by - Tim Burton)
The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. (Quote by - Marv Levy)
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. (Quote by - James Herriot)
The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is. (Quote by - Annie Dillard)
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches. (Quote by - Frank Deford)
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things. (Quote by - Walt Disney)
Men! The only animal in the world to fear. (Quote by - D.H. Lawrence)
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies. (Quote by - James Stephens)
Don't cast your pearls before swine. (Quote by - Proverb)
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. (Quote by - Alex Haley)
By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. (Quote by - Barbara Holland)
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
We have quite a number who can help on the domestic end. We need large animal farmers. They can't up and leave (in a disaster), but they can help with planning. (Quote by - Connie Cramer)
The stars are dead; the animals will not look:/ We are left alone with our day, and the time is short and / History to the defeated / May say Alas but cannot help or pardon. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
A cat pent up becomes a lion. (Quote by - Proverb)
We both absolutely love animals.. and we always wanted to do something that involved animals. So one day last year, we started talking about it. It then went from talking about it to actually looking for a space and, once we found a space, it took about one month to get the doors open. (Quote by - Donna Martin)
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable. (Quote by - A. P. Herbert)
In the animation world, people who understand pencils and paper usually aren't computer people, and the computer people usually aren't the artistic people, so they always stand on opposite sides of the line. (Quote by - Don Bluth)
Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning. (Quote by - Clifford Geertz)
Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level. (Quote by - Gary Larson)
I don't like small birds. They hop around so merrily outside my window, looking so innocent. but I know that secretly, they're watching my every move and plotting to beat me over the head with a large steel pipe and take my shoe. (Quote by - Jack Handy)
Kissing originates from animals sniffing each other. (Quote by - Ingelore Ebberfeld)
The cat is the only non-gregarious domestic animal. It is retained by its extra-ordinary adhesion to the comforts of the house in which it is reared. (Quote by - Francis Galton)
Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it. (Quote by - Rod McKuen)
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. (Quote by - James Anthony Froude)
The lion is most handsome when looking for food. (Quote by - Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost. (Quote by - Voltaire)
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
The early bird gets the worm. (Quote by - Proverb)
Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the British scientific community is even suggesting that the animals might even be "Irish-smart.". (Quote by - Jon Stewart)
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same. (Quote by - Beatrice Arthur)
The biggest dog has been a pup. (Quote by - Joaquin Miller)
Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. (Quote by - Agatha Christie)
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable. (Quote by - Peter Singer)
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. (Quote by - Edwin Way Teale)
A kindly gesture bestowed by us on an animal arouses prodigies of understanding and gratitude. (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle)
I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
Charm the birds out of trees. (Quote by - Proverb)
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. (Quote by - Peter Singer)
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are an imitation of fighting. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Cats are connoisseurs of comfort. (Quote by - James Herriot)
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. (Quote by - Franklin Pierce)
I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. (Quote by - Paul Valery)
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. (Quote by - Richard Burton)
Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Crows everywhere are equally black. (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
There are three reasons why lawyers are replacing rats as laboratory research animals. One is that they are plentiful, another is that lab assistants don't get so attached to them and the third is that they will do things that you just can't get rats to do. (Quote by - Blanche Knott)
If only cats grew into kittens. (Quote by - Robert A. M. Stern)
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world. (Quote by - Walt Disney)
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god. (Quote by - Christian Nevell Bovee)
How can the host nation of the Olympics be seen allowing animals to be treated in this terrible way?. (Quote by - Paul McCartney)
If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. (Quote by - Martin Delany)
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form. (Quote by - W. R. Inge)
When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
Our hope is to form a network that will bring animals to Tucson for adoption or fostering. It is crucial to work with a reputable agency to make sure that animals are really available for adoption. (Quote by - Susan White)
Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral. (Quote by - Thich Nhat Hanh)
Every animal knows more than you do. (Quote by - Native American Proverb)
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)
God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. (Quote by - Arthur Young)
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
I'd like to be a lion.. they are very family-oriented. Unfortunately. too many wild animals are afraid at what man can do to them. (Quote by - Connie Stevens)
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. (Quote by - Thornton Wilder)
Cats always know whether people like or dislike them. They do not always care enough to do anything about it. (Quote by - Winifred Carriere)
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?. (Quote by - G. Gordon Liddy)
Much of what we're doing is to make sure that the animal element, the bird element, doesn't get into the country. (Quote by - Leah Yoon)
You are like a porcupine. When the animal has its spines erect, it cannot eat. If you do not eat, you will starve. And your prickles will die with the rest of your body. (Quote by - John Fowles)
Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
A human can be healthy without killing animals for food. Therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. (Quote by - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy)
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. (Quote by - Josh Billings)
I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me. (Quote by - Olivia Newton-John)
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
A good dog does not block the road. (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals. (Quote by - Walt Disney)
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."(Quote by - )
It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full-length animation film. (Quote by - Paul McCartney)
I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work. (Quote by - Hayao Miyazaki)
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. (Quote by - Saint John Chrysostom)
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. (Quote by - James Thurber)
The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
If animals play, this is because play is useful in the struggle for survival; because play practices and so perfects the skills needed in adult life. (Quote by - Susanna Miller)
I prefer that animation reach into places where live action doesn't go, and it seems like all of animation nowadays is trying to go where live action is. (Quote by - Don Bluth)
Man is the most intelligent of the animals -- and the most silly. (Quote by - Diogenes)
Look what the cat dragged in. (Quote by - Proverb)
The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position. (Quote by - Christine Stevens)
A camel is a horse designed by a committee. (Quote by - Sir Alec Issigonis)
The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet. (Quote by - Paul Erlich)
Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together. (Quote by - John Gay)
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants. (Quote by - A. Whitney Brown)
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. (Quote by - Adam Smith)
When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse. (Quote by - George Carlin)
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?. (Quote by - Jalal ad-Din Rumi)
As the wild animals of the forest start in fear from man, thus do thou, O drum, shout against the enemies, frighten them away, and bewilder their minds!. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo. (Quote by - Winnie the Pooh)
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. (Quote by - Lewis Thomas)
It is humankind's duty to respect all life, not only animals have feelings but even also trees and plants. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. (Quote by - Paul Harvey)
Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one. (Quote by - Brad Bird)
There's nothing funnier than the human animal. (Quote by - Walt Disney)
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. (Quote by - Joseph Wood Krutch)
People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and newly starched the next morning. (Quote by - Felix Marti-Ibanez)
What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction. (Quote by - Leonardo DiCaprio)
One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?. (Quote by - Rose F. Kennedy)
Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
It has been well said that the food one consumes determines one's thoughts. By eating the flesh of various animals, the qualities of these animals are imbibed. How sinful is it to feed on animals, which are sustained by the same five elements as human beings! This leads to demonic tendencies, besides committing the sin of inflicting cruelty on animals. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
The cat has nine lives: three for playing, three for straying, three for staying. (Quote by - Proverb)
The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
People should try eating no animal products for just ONE DAY a week. (Quote by - Casey Affleck)
Man is no man, but a wolf. (Quote by - Titus Maccius Plautus)
My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness -- if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor -- but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me. (Quote by - John Keats)
When I see professional clowns, mimes, or people who makes ballon animals, I think of their relatives and how disappointed they must be. (Quote by - Jimmy Fallon)
Horses are predictably unpredictable. (Quote by - Loretta Gage)
Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away. (Quote by - Confucius)
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men. (Quote by - Alice Walker)
Oh, absolutely, .. because, you know, the Bible teaches that God made land animals on day six, alongside of Adam and Eve. (Quote by - Ken Ham)
I use animals native to Great Britain, .. The animals have human traits, like the mole is a tiny, furry wonderful creature with big digging claws. I think about how he would talk. He's not a baddie; he's a goodie. (Quote by - Brian Jacques)
This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals.. which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure. (Quote by - Thomas Hobbes)
Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy. (Quote by - Jacques Cousteau)
I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. (Quote by - David Duchovny)
You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all. (Quote by - Aristotle)
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. (Quote by - Maurice Maeterlinck)
I've always been very bonded to animals - more so than most people. (laughs) I don't think that they can defend themselves, so we have to help them. (Quote by - Jennie Garth)
The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged. (Quote by - Ovid)
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs. (Quote by - Dakota Fanning)
When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed. (Quote by - Lou Brock)
Master said, God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves; but He gave animals knowledge . . . which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men. (Quote by - Anna Sewell)
Animal-rights advocates remind us of this admonition: The ways in which people treat animals will be reflected in how people relate to one another. (Quote by - William Greider)
It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same. (Quote by - Sri Sathya Sai Baba)
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)
Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper. (Quote by - Adriaan Kortlandt)
Since it is the very substance of the animal, it is the blood which transports the fuel.If the animal did not habitually replace, through nourishing themselves,what they losethrough respiration, the lamp would very soon run out of oil and the animal would perish, just as the lamp goes out when it lacks fuel. (Quote by - Antoine Lavoisier)
For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. (Quote by - Terry Pratchett)
I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?. (Quote by - Anne Tyler)
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. (Quote by - D.H. Lawrence)
I don't think you should hurt or kill animals just to entertain an audience. Animals should have some rights. But there are a lot of directors, including Ingmar Bergman, who will injure animals to further a plot. I will have none of it. (Quote by - James Mason)
An example from the monkey: the higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind. (Quote by - German Proverb)
The cats that drive the mice away are as good as they that catch them. (Quote by - German Proverb)
I don't think the girls realized there's so much to do, taking care of all the animals. It's an all day, every day job. (Quote by - Brendan Wiseman)
There are no ordinary cats. (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle)
Cats don't like change without their consent. (Quote by - Roger Caras)
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
When the cats away, the mice will play!. (Quote by - Bob Marley)
Native Americans had only stone and wooden weapons and no animals that could be ridden. Those military advantages repeatedly enabled troops of a few dozen mounted Spaniards to defeat Indian armies numbering in the thousands. (Quote by - Jared Diamond)
We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting. (Quote by - Jacques Cousteau)
Intellectual .. to the animal. (Quote by - Timothy McVeigh)
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
If you want to adopt an animal, please think of your local Animal Control Center where there are animals who need homes desperately, .. However .. it is vital to offer help to the shelters in the Katrina disaster area because they have little hope of being able to place animals locally as they are so overrun. (Quote by - Susan White)
People's hearts are like wild animals. They attach their selves to those that love and train them. (Quote by - Ali ibn Abi Talib)
