quote: animals

  • People must have renounced, it seems to me, all natural intelligence to dare to advance that animals are but animated machines…. It appears to me, besides, that [such people] can never have observed with attention the character of animals, not to have distinguished among them the different voices of need, of suffering, of joy, of…

  • It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English – up to fifty words used in correct context – no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese. – Carl Sagan

  • It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. – Mark Twain

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

  • Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. – Mark Twain

  • The animals are not as stupid as one thinks – they have neither doctors nor lawyers. – Unknown