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

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

Samuel Butle

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 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

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948

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

Loren

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

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.

Froude

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

The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.

Richard F. Lovelace

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

Alexander Graham Bell

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

George Orwell

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

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

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

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)

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

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Erving Goffman

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

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

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

H. L. Mencken

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

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

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

Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)

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

B. J. Gupta

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

Paul Valery

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

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

Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.

Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition

Drinking without being thirsty and making love at any time, Madame, are the only things that distinguish us from other animals.

Beaumarchis

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

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

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

Paul Valery

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

George Eliot