ANIMAL QUOTES

• Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.
  ~ Clive Staples Lewis ~
• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
  ~ Samuel Butler ~
• Life is boat in limitless ocean animal called man is just sitting in it knowing not where it will sail or be capsized.
  ~ Rayaba Saindane ~
• You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but now, as yet, intelligent enough.
  ~ Aldous Huxley ~
• What is a country without rabbits and partridges They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products ancient and venerable familes known to antiquity as to modern times of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
  ~ Henry David Thoreau ~
• 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 ~
• One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
  ~ Samuel Butler ~
• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
  ~ Samuel Butler ~
• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
  ~ C. S. Lewis ~
• In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~
• Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
  ~ George Eliot ~
• All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
  ~ Samuel Butler ~
• A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
  ~ Ogden Nash ~
• A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.
  ~ Sloane Crosley ~
• Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.
  ~ Antonio Banderas ~
• He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
  ~ Immanuel Kant ~
• A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~
• People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
  ~ Herbert Spencer ~
• The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
  ~ Herbert Spencer ~
• I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
  ~ Brigitte Bardot ~
• I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
  ~ Brigitte Bardot ~
• We have abolished the death penalty for humans, so why should it continue for animals?
  ~ Brigitte Bardot ~
• I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
  ~ Brigitte Bardot ~
• The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
  ~ Karl Marx ~
• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
  ~ Leo Tolstoy ~
• A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
  ~ Leo Tolstoy ~
• The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
  ~ Angelina Jolie ~
• The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
  ~ Angelina Jolie ~
• The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.
  ~ Angelina Jolie ~
• People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
  ~ Soren Kierkegaard ~
• When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
  ~ Ayn Rand ~
• What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
  ~ Shia Labeouf ~
• What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.
  ~ Shia Labeouf ~
• There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.
  ~ Doug Coupland ~
• People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
  ~ Muhammad Iqbal ~
• The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
  ~ Alice Walker ~
• The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.
  ~ Alice Walker ~
• We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.
  ~ Rachael Ray ~
• When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.
  ~ Rachael Ray ~
• We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.
  ~ Rachael Ray ~
• If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
  ~ Rachael Ray ~
• We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
  ~ Stephen Covey ~
• Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
  ~ Ben Stein ~
• So, basically, my view is I don't want to support the exploitation of animals, and within reason, I will do what I can to avoid it, but it's not like it's a religion for me. It's not like I consider I'm polluted if somehow some bit of milk or cheese or something passes my lips.
  ~ Peter Singer ~
• In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.
  ~ Peter Singer ~
• When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.
  ~ Peter Singer ~
• When fish experience something that would cause other animals physical pain, they behave in ways suggestive of pain, and the change in behaviour may last several hours.
  ~ Peter Singer ~
• If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.
  ~ Salma Hayek ~
• I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
  ~ Ellen Degeneres ~
• If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.
  ~ Ellen Degeneres ~
• We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed.
  ~ Ellen Degeneres ~
• People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.
  ~ Ellen Degeneres ~
• I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.
  ~ Christopher Hitchens ~
• Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
  ~ William Hazlitt ~
• Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
  ~ William Hazlitt ~
• The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
  ~ Bertrand Russell ~
• The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
  ~ Bertrand Russell ~
• Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
  ~ Bertrand Russell ~
• Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
  ~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~
• Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
  ~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~
• My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.
  ~ Hugh Jackman ~
• Man is by nature a political animal.
  ~ Aristotle ~
• At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.
  ~ Aristotle ~
• Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
  ~ Thomas Jefferson ~
• Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
  ~ George Bernard Shaw ~
• Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
  ~ Honore De Balzac ~
• Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.
  ~ Honore De Balzac ~
• We become wild animals the day we begin to feel fine hurting others for our personal gains.
  ~ Isaac Watum ~