Animals Quotes
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition
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
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
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)
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)
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.H. L. Mencken
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.Isaac Bashevis Singe
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
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
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
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.Loren
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.G. C. Lichtenberg
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.Alfred Victor Vigny
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
Animals are such agreeable friends - They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.George Eliot
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
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
Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas with children you never know where you are.Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)
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
Men as well as animals do whatever makes them happy, differences lie in what makes them happy.B. J. Gupta
Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.Erving Goffman
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.Mahatma Gandhi, 1869 - 1948
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 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
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.Richard F. Lovelace
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
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
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.Henrik Ibsen
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
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
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.Alexander Graham Bell
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
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
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose 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
