Best Animal Proverbs

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It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a… — William Carlos Williams
I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with… — Jack Handey
Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along. — Charles Bukowski
Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn tasty! — Stephen Colbert
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others. — Saint John Chrysostom
When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse. — George Carlin
Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness. — Jean Cocteau
A cat is the only domestic animal I know who toilet trains itself and does a damned impressive job of it. — Joseph Epstein
By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog. — Barbara Holland
Few animals display their mood via facial expressions as distinctly as cats. — Konrad Lorenz
To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny...though...I do not too much mind being somewhat… — Joseph Wood Krutch
You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals. — George Mikes
The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal. — Compton Mackenzie
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable… — Lewis Thomas
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. — Albert Einstein
Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the… — Terry Pratchett
And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer… — William S. Burroughs
We are often more merciful to our animals [cats] than we are to each other. — P.D. James
Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings,… — Swami Vivekananda
The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals. — Swami Vivekananda
A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead,… — Alexander McCall Smith
Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity. — Erich Fromm
Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the… — Paulo Coelho
A spiritual man should be a normal man, a sound man. God Himself is normal; He is not insane. In order to reach God, a… — Sri Chinmoy
As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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