Animal Quotes
A garden without cats, it will be generally agreed, can scarcely deserve to be called a garden at all.
PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.
I couldn't watch Tom and Jerry. The cruelty was too much. I had all these strange images, of tiny animals, all mixed up.
Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.
Of all noxious animals, the most noxious is a tourist. And of all tourists the most vulgar, ill-bred, offensive and loathsome is the British tourist.
At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.
We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.
Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?
Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.
Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal.
A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo.
Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.
We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.
If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.
I had decided that I wanted a dog from an animal shelter. Normally, presidents have purebred dogs, but my is a Labrador-griffon mix. Absolutely adorable.
The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support - the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.
I have not seen any Christian sparrow or Muslim lion or Jewish elephant! Animals are lucky as they have not yet invented the religion!
There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys.
I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.
Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.
Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.
I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.
Humankind won't find peace as long as we're treating feeling animals as if they were so many blocks of wood.
Man is distinguished not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion, from all other animals.
The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.
It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to violate animal life at the first opportunity.
If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages.
Beyond my desire to boycott the torture factories, I am also way happier when I eat a plant-based diet, and I feel about a thousand times more energetic.
Being a humanitarian, supporting animal rights activists, human rights activists, it's all the same.
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
The comic strip is what I looked at, and it's another reason I did it. The comic strip, where animals would comment on human behaviour, interested me.
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.
Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.
It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have these lowly organized creatures.
I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?