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Quotations About Animals

Related: Pets, Birds

Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives.

The years like great black oxen tread the world And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul — chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.

We like to praise birds for flying. But how much of it is actually flying, and how much of it is just sort of coasting from the previous flap?

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

No matter how much you feed a wolf, an elephant still has bigger balls.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

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

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.

A lion and a lamb can lay together, but the lamb will get little sleep.

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.

The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner.

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

A good shepherd knows time like no other, and a good shepherd sleeps well, even while dreaming of wolves.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

A dog is one of the remaining reasons why some people can be persuaded to go for a walk.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

Dogs should not chase chickens, and men should not fight with their wives.

Nothing there but basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

The birds of hope are everywhere, listen to them sing.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?"

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Better to be a dog in times of peace than a human being in times of trouble.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.