Animals

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• "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. And to act so is immoral." --On Civil Disobedience by Leo Tolstoy

• "All animals are equal — but some animals are more equal than others." --Animal Farm by George Orwell

• "Four legs good, two legs bad." --Animal Farm by George Orwell

• "If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals." --The First Step by Leo Tolstoy

• "It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind." --Albert Einstein (Letter to Vegetarian Watch-Tower, Dec. 27, 1930)

• "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." --Animal Farm by George Orwell

• "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so." --Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• "A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle." ~ Ian Fleming, The Sunday Times (1966)

• "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." ~ George Eliot, Scences of a Clerical Life (1858)

• "Animals are always loyal and love you, whereas children you never know where you are." ~ Christina Foyle, The Times (1993)

• "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog on big one." ~ Archilochus, In Plutarch Moralia

• "There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them." ~ Voltaire, Letter (1739)

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• "A caballo regalado no le mires el dentado."
  • Translation: Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. --Spanish proverb

• "A heedless dog will not do for the chase." --Anonymous

• "A lurking dog does not lie in the hyena's lair." --Anonymous

• "A perro flaco, todos son pulgas."
  • Translation: To a skinny dog, all are fleas. --Spanish proverb

• "Dogs are forever in the push-up position." --Mitch Hedberg

• "En boca cerrada no entran moscas."
  • Translation: A closed mouth gathers no flies. --Spanish proverb

• "Gato escaldado del agua fría huye."
  • Translation: The cat that has been scalded flees from cold water. --Spanish proverb

• "He who can not move an ant, and yet tries to move an elephant, shall find out his folly." --Anonymous

• "He who goes with the wolf will learn to howl." --Anonymous

• "Hot dogs: feeding the hand that bites it." --Laurence J. Peter, paraphrased

• I bought myself a parrot. The parrot talked. But it did not say, "I'm hungry,"... so it died. ~ Mitch Hedberg

• I'd hate to be a giraffe with a sore throat. ~ Mitch Hedberg

• "If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence." --Will Cuppy

• "If the dog is not at home, he barks not." --Anonymous

• "If the fly flies, the frog goes not supperless to bed." --Anonymous

• "If you think dogs can't count, try keeping three cookies in your pocket, and giving your dog only 2."

• "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
  • Translation: Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice. --Aristotle

• "Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando."
  • Transliteration: A bird in the hand is better than a hundred flying birds.
  • Translation: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. --Spanish proverb

• "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." --Albert Einstein

• "Perro ladrador, poco mordedor."
  • Transliteration: A barking dog doesn't bite much.
  • Translation: His bark is worse than his bite. --Spanish proverb

• "Ser como el perro del hortelano, que ni come las berzas, ni las deja comer al amo."
  • Translation: To be like the gardener's dog, who doesn't eat the cabbages, nor lets the master eat them. --Spanish proverb

• "Si quieres el perro, acepta las pulgas."
  • Translation: If you want the dog, accept the fleas. --Spanish proverb

• "The butterfly that brushes against thorns will tear its wings." --Anonymous

• "The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for." --Will Cuppy

• "The elephant does not find his trunk heavy." --Anonymous

• "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." --Mahatma Gandhi

• "The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through." --A. Whitney Brown

• "We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form." --William Ralph Inge

• "We hope that, when insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on our picnics." --Bill Vaughan

• "Were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal." --Anonymous

• "When the fox dies, fowls do not mourn." --Anonymous

• "When the goat goes abroad, the sheep must run." --Anonymous

• "When the rat laughs at the cat, there is a hole. The rat has not power to call the cat to account. The rat does not go to sleep in the cat's bed." --Anonymous

See also

• Cats
• Goatsde:Tier

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