Animal Quotes · Page 95

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— William James

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment.

— Paul Watson

“The humankind is far from being human, and much further kind.”

— Anthony Liccione

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

— Mark Twain

My watchful animal instinct to avoid people is almost overpowering.

— Samantha Abeel

Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

— Martin Luther

I hate getting attached to dogs! I love them too much and then they die or runaway.

— Anonymous

Never break a promise to an animal. They're like babies—they won't understand.

— Tamora Pierce

I love my dog, but since the kids came along, the petting has gone out of our relationship.

— Dana Gould

“If you're in the midst of a midlife crisis, you could buy a convertible, have an affair, or upgrade your cup size.…

— Jen Lancaster

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals.

— Walt Whitman

The more exposure people have to the realities of factory farming, the more we will see people rejecting it. It's already happening.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I prefer my Mexican food to have a little bit of an animal that suffered a little bit. That's some of the…

— George Lopez

“No doubt, when your dog will be your best friend. Then she'd add, But never underestimate the power of purrs.”

— Gary Shiebler

A lot of people think I am the one to turn to for dog behavior issues. I'm not. All you have to…

— W. Bruce Cameron

We live in a world of energy. An important task at this time is to learn to sense or see the energy…

— Carlos Barrios

There is yet no ethic dealing with man's relation to land and to the animals and plants which grow upon it. Land,…

— Aldo Leopold

The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we…

— Blaise Pascal

Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express…

— Gregory Colbert

The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have…

— Bertrand Russell

In North Korea, we never learned to think critically. There is no concept of individualism. The government treated us as less valuable…

— Park Yeon-mi

But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could…

— Jack London

It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the…

— Charles Darwin

...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something

— Yann Martel

Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

— Anonymous

I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

“Never refer to a large dog as a friend - he is in custody and he knows it.”

— Steve Aylett

Don't ever have two dogs. That way you won't know which one to blame.

— Bob Newhart

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

— Madame Roland

Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?

— Anonymous

The bond with a dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth can ever be.

— Konrad Lorenz

I don't treasure things much - just people. And pets.

— Felicity Kendal

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

— John B. S. Haldane

“You can tell a lot about a man by the way he treats his dog…”

— Peary Perry

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

— H. Allen Smith

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

— Rumi

I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.

— Damien Hirst

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

— Christopher Morley

I have one pug and one Czechoslovakian dog called Prazsky krysarik.

— Agnetha Faltskog