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 ~
• Well, I had an immense respect for Cirque du Soleil when I first say them in the '80s on a television show and just thought, you know, this group is really reinventing the circus, as you know. Because there wasn't three rings. There were no animals.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
  ~ John Cleese ~
• I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.
  ~ Jacqueline Bisset ~
• Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
  ~ Julia Child ~
• Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
  ~ Wendell Phillips ~
• Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?
  ~ Tyra Banks ~
• The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
  ~ Thornton Wilder ~
• I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.
  ~ Kevin Smith ~
• All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Give your dog or cat respect, patience, understanding and love. And if you just change to one vegetarian day a week, that's a wonderful step that will save animal lives. It means you have chosen something kind instead of something cruel.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• Perhaps one of the most important things you can do for human beings is wean them off an animal-based diet. It hardens the arteries and runs up our health-care costs. The last thing a poor person can afford is a heart attack or cancer or a stroke. And that's all linked to a meat-based diet. I think animal liberation is human liberation.
  ~ Ingrid Newkirk ~
• A tool is usually more simple than a machine it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power.
  ~ Charles Babbage ~
• Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
  ~ Michael Morpurgo ~
• Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.
  ~ Roberto Cavalli ~
• You will die but the carbon will not its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
  ~ Jacob Bronowski ~
• Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.
  ~ Jacob Bronowski ~
• It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.
  ~ Brett Favre ~
• In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
  ~ Charles Darwin ~
• In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
  ~ Charles Darwin ~
• Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
  ~ Paris Hilton ~
• When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
  ~ Paris Hilton ~
• When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
  ~ Paris Hilton ~
• The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
  ~ Adam Smith ~
• I think that animals aren't less intelligent than humans, they're just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million - they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.
  ~ Mike Mills ~
• For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.
  ~ Michael Pollan ~
• People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!
  ~ Eddie Vedder ~
• The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
  ~ James Thurber ~
• I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then.
  ~ Dolly Parton ~
• I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.
  ~ Kesha ~
• I hope to bring much more attention to important issues and change for issues and practices that are harming animals.
  ~ Kesha ~
• Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
  ~ Edward Thorndike ~
• From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
  ~ Edward Thorndike ~
• Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
  ~ Edward Thorndike ~
• There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
  ~ Edward Thorndike ~
• 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.
  ~ Milan Kundera ~
• 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.
  ~ Milan Kundera ~
• No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.
  ~ Joni Mitchell ~
• If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'
  ~ Miley Cyrus ~
• I'm not into animal rights. I'm only into animal welfare and health. I've been with the Morris Animal Foundation since the '70s. We're a health organization. We fund campaign health studies for dogs, cats, lizards and wildlife. I've worked with the L.A. Zoo for about the same length of time. I get my animal fixes!
  ~ Betty White ~
• My mother and dad were big animal lovers, too. I just don't know how I would have lived without animals around me. I'm fascinated by them - both domestic pets and the wild community. They just are the most interesting things in the world to me, and it's made such a difference in my lifetime.
  ~ Betty White ~
• I am interested in a lot of things - not just show business and my passion for animals. I try to keep current in what's going on in the world. I do mental exercises. I don't have any trouble memorizing lines because of the crossword puzzles I do every day to keep my mind a little limber. I don't sit and vegetate.
  ~ Betty White ~
• I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.
  ~ Betty White ~
• I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.
  ~ Betty White ~
• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
  ~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
• All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
  ~ Maurice Maeterlinck ~
• The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.
  ~ Steve Irwin ~
• After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary's shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms.
  ~ Ginnifer Goodwin ~
• Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
  ~ Michael J. Fox ~
• If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
  ~ Brian Tracy ~
• There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic.
  ~ Susan Orlean ~
• Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• I know lots and lots and lots of vegetarians who think it's perfectly all right to kill animals for food to eat, but don't do it because they think all the ways in which it's done are wrong.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• I first became a vegetarian when I was nine, in response to an argument made by a radical babysitter. My great change - which lasted a couple of weeks - was based on the very simple instinct that it's wrong to kill animals for food.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.
  ~ Christopher Walken ~
• We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.
  ~ Lewis Thomas ~
• Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
  ~ Anatole France ~
• To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
  ~ Joseph Conrad ~
• I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
  ~ David Attenborough ~
• Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
  ~ David Attenborough ~
• The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
  ~ David Attenborough ~
• I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.
  ~ David Attenborough ~
• I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
  ~ Joan Jett ~
• I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
  ~ Joan Jett ~
• I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
  ~ Joan Jett ~
• I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
  ~ Joan Jett ~
• I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
  ~ Joan Jett ~
• Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.
  ~ Joan Jett ~
• Cutting meat out of your diet is the best thing you can do for animals and your own health.
  ~ Joan Jett ~
• Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.
  ~ Stanislav Grof ~