Animals Quotes
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
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
My music is best understood by children and animals.Igor Stravinsky, In Observer 8 Oct. 1961
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 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 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
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.Henrik Ibsen
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)
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
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.Alfred Victor Vigny
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
Humankind differs from the animals only by a little, and most people throw that away.Confucius, Roots of Wisdom 4th edition
Animals are such agreeable friends - They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.George Eliot
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
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)
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.George Orwell
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
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.Mignon McLaughlin
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 goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.Richard F. Lovelace
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
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
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
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.Maurice Masterlinck
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
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 is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.Erving Goffman
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
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
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
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
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 animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
