Famous Quotes about Animals (62 Quotations)

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

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.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

Eagles do not beget Doves.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

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.

Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

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.

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk.

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.

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Mankind differs from the animals only by a little and most people throw that away.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.

Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

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.