Animals Quotes

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Samuel Butle

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

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961

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

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)