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Animal Quotes by Will Cuppy
- As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one…
- Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on…
- 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…
- The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is…
- The hippopotamus looks monogamous- he looks as if he would have to be.
- It is because of his brain that [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.
- If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
More Animal Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of… — David Attenborough
- Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And… — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I'm not a propagandist, I'm not a polemicist; my primary interest is just looking at and trying to understand how animals work. — David Attenborough
- I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated… — David Attenborough
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough