Quotations About Animals
Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
Frederich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Thus Spake Zarathustra
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
Joseph Addison
The Spectator, 1712
The Spectator, 1712
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
Honore de Balzac
The Physiology of Marriage
The Physiology of Marriage
We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives.
Lewis Thomas
The Medusa and the Snail, 1979
The Medusa and the Snail, 1979
The years like great black oxen tread the world And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
William Butler Yeats
The Countess Cathleen
The Countess Cathleen
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Lynd
The Blue Lion and Other Essays
The Blue Lion and Other Essays
Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul ΓΆ€” chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!
Anne Tyler
The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
W.H. Hudson
Green Mansions
Green Mansions
We like to praise birds for flying. But how much of it is actually flying, and how much of it is just sort of coasting from the previous flap?
Jack Handey
Deeper Thoughts: All New, All Crispy
Deeper Thoughts: All New, All Crispy
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Jacques Deval
Afin de vivre bel et bien
Afin de vivre bel et bien
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
Jacques Deval
Afin de vivre bel et bien
Afin de vivre bel et bien
I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln
No matter how much you feed a wolf, an elephant still has bigger balls.
Russian proverb
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Nora Ephron
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
Murray Banks
Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid.
Arabic Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese Proverb
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber
Never wear anything that panics the cat.
P.J. O'Rourke
Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.
Jim Bishop
A lion and a lamb can lay together, but the lamb will get little sleep.
Woody Allen
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
Chinese Proverb
The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner.
Hebrew Proverb
Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.
Rue McClanahan
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
Abraham Lincoln
A good shepherd knows time like no other, and a good shepherd sleeps well, even while dreaming of wolves.
Steve Cash
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
Henry David Thoreau
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
Colette
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
George Eliot
A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.
O.A. Battista
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill
If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.
Bobby Knight
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
Robert Ingersoll
Dogs should not chase chickens, and men should not fight with their wives.
Chinese Proverb
Nothing there but basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
Ogden Nash
The birds of hope are everywhere, listen to them sing.
Terri Guillemets
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
A.A. Milne
The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"
Jeremy Bentham
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Better to be a dog in times of peace than a human being in times of trouble.
Unknown
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France