Animals Quotes
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.Alexander Graham Bell
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
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
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
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
Man... is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
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 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)
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.Richard F. Lovelace
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.Alfred Victor Vigny
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
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)
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
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
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
Animals are such agreeable friends - They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.George Eliot
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
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
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.H. L. Mencken
Man... is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill - Educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.Plato
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
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
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
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.Erving Goffman
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.George Orwell
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
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 lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.Mignon McLaughlin
The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
Every women needs at least 4 animals. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass that pays for everything.Paris Hilton
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to a mate with, beat, run away from, and rocks.Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.Plato
