210 Animals Quotes

The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.

I used to suffer particularly because the poor animals must endure so much pain and want. The sight of an old, limping horse being dragged along by one man while another man struck him with a stick he was being driven to the Colmar slaughterhouse - haunted me for weeks.

Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

Our success was mainly due to the fact that we stimulated the nerves of animals that easily stood on their own feet and were not subjected to any painful stimulus either during or immediately before stimulation of their nerves.

Thanks to our present surgical methods in physiology we can demonstrate at any time almost all phenomena of digestion without the loss of even a single drop of blood, without a single scream from the animal undergoing the experiment.

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

One memory I have is there were a lot of dogs at this one place and my brother got in a horrific fight with a dog and the dog bit his toe off. They became fast friends after that. He lost a toe and gained a friend.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress them, share with them feelings neither has words for. Have they ever stroked any adult with the love they bestow on a cat? Hugged any grownup with the ecstasy they feel when clasping a puppy?

Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prevent you from being eaten. Thinking less than that, as humans do, will almost guarantee it.

To be sure, the dog is loyal. But why, on that account, should we take him as an example? He is loyal to man, not to other dogs.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.

Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.

When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

We need an extreme movement because what is happening to animals is so extreme. Some misinformed people claim that animal rights activists are terrorists, but these people are simply ignorant of who the real terrorists are - the companies and industries that torture literally billions of animals each year.

Animals are not our playthings. We are on this earth to protect them. It's our duty.

I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.

I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.

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.

Sharks are the criminals of the sea. Dolphins are the outlaws.

I have a great love of animals and laughter.

There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

Groucho: Would you mind getting up off of that fly paper and giving the flies a chance? Chico: Flies can't read papers.

A moose is an animal with horns on the front of his head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it.

Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there!

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

Clyde: Your'e telling me. What about those first three nights, we had to light fires to keep the animals away.

Clyde: Then the animals lit fires to keep us away.

Jack: [Pointing to the tiger] He must have gone to a veterinarian in Denmark.

Jack: What kind of tiger is that - Siberian or Bengal?

Now I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling Man up to its level of sagacity, but Man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

When dark clouds full with new waters are thundering repeatedly, the ruttish wild elephants respond by trumpeting, on the premise that it is the she-elephant's call.

That guy's being awfully forward with that donkey.

Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried my uncle Toby, - but nothing to this. - For my own part, I could not have a heart to curse my dog so.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.

Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings. (p. 67e)

When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?

Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly - but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.

Ces terribles chevaux gris! Comme ils travaillent!

And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree.

The man recovered of the bite, The dog it was that died.

Its like Dr. Doolittle in this fucking house here.

If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.

I started back to the house, and in the drive I met Jeeves. He was at the wheel of Stiffy's car. Beside him, looking like a Scotch elder rebuking sin, was the dog Bartholomew.

Oh, no, it's not dogs I don't like -- it's corgis. They get the blame for all the farts.

The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven.

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

The old dog barks backward without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.

My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.

The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart.

Brother, thy tail hangs down behind! This is the way of the Monkey-kind!

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

I got rabies shots for biting the head off a bat but that's OK - the bat had to get Ozzy shots

... it is certainly wrong to condemn poor old Homo Sapiens as the only species to kill his own kind, the only inheritor of the mark of Cain, and similar melodramatic charges.

The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole

'Sit, Alla!!!'