Animals Quotes

When the Earth is sick, the animals will begin to disappear, when that happens, The Warriors of the Rainbow will come to save them.

Chief Seattle

Animals are such agreeable friends - They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

Rudyard Kipling

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988

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.

Alfred A. Montapert

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.

Mignon McLaughlin

Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.

Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)

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.

Joseph Addison

Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals.

Will Rogers

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.

Arnold Toynbee

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.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

Wystan Hugh Auden

Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.

B. J. Gupta

Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.

Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.

Alexander Graham Bell

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.

H. L. Mencken

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.

Alfred Victor Vigny

For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.

Stephen Hawking

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

Michael Sherme

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.

Aldous Huxley

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.

Henrik Ibsen

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

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.

Aristotle

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Anna Sewell, Black Beauty, 1877

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butle

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.

H. L. Mencken

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Masterlinck

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Sir William Osler, In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)

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.

Victor Hugo

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.

Native American

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 them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Paul Valery

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Loren

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butle

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell