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Quotes and aphorisms on animals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Quotes and aphorisms on animals by famous authors, writers, artists and men of science to remind us the importance of animals for our lives and our planet earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

World Animal Day is an international day of action for animal rights and welfare. It is celebrated on October 4 each year, the feast day of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.<\/span><\/p>\n

The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.<\/span>
\nSt. Francis De Sales<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nJoseph Addison<\/span><\/p>\n

Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing “Embraceable You” in spats.<\/span>
\nWoody Allen<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is an animal endowed with reason, but also with much stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.<\/span>
\nAristotle<\/span><\/p>\n

Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.<\/span>
\nPierre De Beaumarchais<\/span><\/p>\n

The dog is the god of frolic.<\/span>
\nHenry Ward Beecher<\/span><\/p>\n

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.<\/span>
\nHilaire Belloc<\/span><\/p>\n

Jealousy is a barking dog that attracts thieves.<\/span>
\nKarl Kraus<\/span><\/p>\n

By now the animals of the jungle are nothing more than phenomena of a protected park, an extinct civilization like that of the Indians; excellent subjects for churning out video cassettes, documentaries and CD-ROMs for the true wild beasts of humanity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

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Quotes on animals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Scientific laws are still a product of man, that’s why I, first of all, dedicate myself to the study of this amazing animal.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.<\/span>
\nJohn Berger<\/span><\/p>\n

Politicians are none of my business\u2026 I was struck by the fact that they live a dog’s life without the manners of a dog.<\/span>
\nRudyard Kipling<\/span><\/p>\n

I fear that animals see in man a being equal to themselves who has lost in an extremely dangerous way the healthy animal intellect: they see in him the delirious animal, the laughing animal, the crying animal, the unhappy animal.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

The search for a partner is one of the most powerful forces in the animal kingdom, for this reason we must never consider our journey concluded, in fact if it is not said that an ideal partner exists, it can be taken for granted that the ideality of the search exists.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.<\/span>
\nJohn Berryman<\/span><\/p>\n

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.<\/span>
\nJosh Billings<\/span><\/p>\n

A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.<\/span>
\nSamuel Butler<\/span><\/p>\n

If you take a starving dog and fatten him up, he will not bite you. That is the main difference between a dog and a man.<\/span>
\nMark Twain<\/span><\/p>\n

The road to understanding man passes through understanding the animal, just as the road to the birth of man undoubtedly passed through the animal.<\/span>
\nKonrad Lorenz<\/span><\/p>\n

Brothers, love the beasts: God has given them the beginning of thought and peaceful joy. Do not torment them, do not disturb them, do not take away their joy, do not oppose the purpose of God. Man, do not exalt yourself above the animals.<\/span>
\nF. Dostoevskij<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.<\/span>
\nSamuel Butler<\/span><\/p>\n

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.<\/span>
\nLord Byron<\/span><\/p>\n

Humans are the only animals that have a highly developed brain; perhaps that is why they are so avidly aggressive.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men’s bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.<\/span>
\nMalcolm De Chazal<\/span><\/p>\n

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Quotes about animals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.<\/span>
\nWinston Churchill<\/span><\/p>\n

Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.<\/span>
\nSamuel Taylor Coleridge<\/span><\/p>\n

Shall we never have done with that cliche, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they’ll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they’ll reflect our sadness. But they flee unhappiness as they flee fever, and I believe that in the long run they are capable of boycotting it.<\/span>
\nGabrielle Colette<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is certainly an animal as stupid as his inferior relatives, only he is also dangerously and destructively vain. <\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Pride is a wild beast that lives in caves and deserts; vanity is a parrot that jumps from branch to branch and chatters in broad daylight. <\/span>
\nGustave Flaubert<\/span><\/p>\n

For the warriors of the pre-Christian era, a dragon was a fairly dangerous animal; for the students of the 21st century after Christ, a wasp is a very dangerous beast.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

A fence should be horse high, hog tight and bull strong.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.<\/span>
\nGeorge Eliot<\/span><\/p>\n

Before reading Chomsky I didn’t realize that man is the only animal that speaks, but I was already aware that he is the only animal that does a lot of stupid things.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us confess to ourselves once and for all that since humanity introduced human rights, life has been a dog’s life.<\/span>
\nKarl Kraus<\/span><\/p>\n

Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?<\/span>
\nRalph Waldo Emerson<\/span><\/p>\n

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.<\/span>
\nVictor Hugo<\/span><\/p>\n

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.<\/span>
\nGeorg Hegel<\/span><\/p>\n

A sensible philosopher who speaks to a capitalist, religious and respectable or secular and indifferent, is likely to waste his time, just as a scientist who speaks to an ox is likely to waste his. (The animal is chosen at random, the selfish capitalist, is not.)<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

If we all had the same opinions there would be no horse racing.<\/span>
\nGeorge Bernard Shaw<\/span><\/p>\n

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Quotes and aphorisms on animals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga – stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.<\/span>
\nEdward Hoagland<\/span><\/p>\n

It is well known that in periods of prolonged abstinence some shepherds in various parts of the world did not disdain to mate with the prettiest sheep of their flock, and I think that from here was born the famous saying that well explains the rich humanity of certain people, namely: “Rather than go with a woman like that, I would certainly go more willingly with a sheep!”<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.<\/span>
\nEdward Hoagland<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn’t in us. It’s almost as if we’re put here on earth to show how silly they aren’t.<\/span>
\nRussell Hoban<\/span><\/p>\n

Animals often strike us as passionate machines.<\/span>
\nEric Hoffer<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is an animal so stupid, first he destroys other species and then he worries about safeguarding the species in danger of extinction.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span>
\nVictor Hugo<\/span><\/p>\n

The better I know men the more I admire dogs.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

As you read this book, keep in mind that I agree with Chamfort who very wisely said: \u201cMan is a stupid animal, to judge by me.\u201d<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

I have enforced the law against killing certain animals and many others, but the greatest progress of righteousness among men comes from the exhortation in favor of non-injury to life and abstention from killing living beings.<\/span>
\nKing Asoka of India<\/span><\/p>\n

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats: all human life is there.<\/span>
\nHenry James<\/span><\/p>\n

Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.<\/span>
\nAnn Landers<\/span><\/p>\n

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.<\/span>
\nD. H. Lawrence<\/span><\/p>\n

Before I am interested in people, I am interested in their language, their ideas, their hypocrisy, their selfishness, their greed stuffed with vanity, in short, more than in these strange animals I am interested in their stupidity.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.<\/span>
\nJoe E. Lewis<\/span><\/p>\n

Animals are considered as property only. To destroy or to abuse them, from malice to the proprietor, or with an intention injurious to his interest in them, is criminal. But the animals themselves are without protection. The law regards them not substantively. They have no RIGHTS!<\/span>
\nShirley Lord<\/span><\/p>\n

Eagles do not beget Doves.<\/span>
\nMotto<\/span><\/p>\n

The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk.<\/span>
\nOgden Nash<\/span><\/p>\n

It may be that the animals of the earth become extinct, but it will always be possible to revive them with a computer.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

The wild deer wandering the path saves the human soul from his thought.<\/span>
\nWilliam Blake<\/span><\/p>\n

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Aphorisms and quotes about animals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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.<\/span>
\nNative Americans<\/span><\/p>\n

I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason – as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.<\/span>
\nFriedrich Nietzsche<\/span><\/p>\n

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.<\/span>
\nCharleton Jr. Ogburn<\/span><\/p>\n

The English ban clinical experimentation on animals, but not on humans, for whom there is no legislation, neither legal nor ethical, and so human guinea pigs proliferate, for which, needless to say, no association mobilizes.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

And his eyes in the sky, would run through the region of air with such splendor that the birds, thinking the night was over, would start singing again.<\/span>
\nWilliam Shakespeare<\/span><\/p>\n

The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride.<\/span>
\nAuthor Unknown<\/span><\/p>\n

Four legs good, two legs bad.<\/span>
\nGeorge Orwell<\/span><\/p>\n

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world’s youth.<\/span>
\nOuida<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.<\/span>
\nThomas Love Peacock<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to language, man is the animal with the most complex communication system and perhaps for this reason he is also the most stupid.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.<\/span>
\nEdgar Allan Poe<\/span><\/p>\n

The zebra told the white horse, “I am white,” and told the black horse, “I am actually black.”<\/span>
\nAfrican Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

The fatter the flea the leaner the dog.<\/span>
\nGerman Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Who loves me loves my dog.<\/span>
\nLatin Proverb<\/span><\/p>\n

Nowadays, we are increasingly concerned about the health of animals, so in Italy they have even invented mutual insurance for dogs and cats; although it is also true that at the same time they are trying to dismantle the one for humans.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them. And, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.<\/span>
\nThomas De Quincey<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.<\/span>
\nBertrand Russell<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.<\/span>
\nAlbert Schweitzer<\/span><\/p>\n

No matter how great a person may do, the mere fact that he is a justice bureaucrat, with a police dog record, married to a law professional, daughter of a prestigious court servant, can be more than enough to detest him.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

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Aphorisms about animals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.<\/span>
\nChief Seattle<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals, “love” them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.<\/span>
\nEdwin Way Teale<\/span><\/p>\n

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.<\/span>
\nHenry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p>\n

Many people make a big fuss about eliminating animals from the circus and yet they persist in wanting to continue to see the performances of man, who by now, wrongly, is no longer considered an animal.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.<\/span>
\nHenry David Thoreau<\/span><\/p>\n

An eagle does not catch flies.<\/span>
\nAnonimous<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you know what a dog and a short-sighted gynecologist have in common? It’s simple, they both always have wet noses.<\/span>
\nCarl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

If it wasn’t for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.<\/span>
\nAnonimous<\/span><\/p>\n

Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.<\/span>
\nFrancois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire<\/span><\/p>\n

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.<\/span>
\nWalt Whitman<\/span><\/p>\n

The best thing about animals is they don’t talk much.<\/span>
\nThornton Wilder<\/span><\/p>\n

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