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 ~
• 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 ~
• 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 ~