Quotes on animals
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
Tyler, Anne
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Buber, Martin
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Ephron, Nora
Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.
Hoff, Benjamin
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.
Twain, Mark
It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons.
Adams, Douglas
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 kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner.
Proverb, Hebrew
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Churchill, Winston
I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot.
Bush, Kate
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Eliot, George
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
Thoreau, Henry David