Animal Quote by Paul Johnson

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on…

— William Hazlitt

Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this,…

— Jonathan Swift

We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and…

— Rupert Murdoch

But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, "deficit-financed government spending," and "the animal spirits of the spendthrift in the service of boosting "consumption demand"...…

— Ilana Mercer

Compassion begets compassion, cruelty begets cruelty. What we give we will ultimately receive. Nonhumans help make us human. They teach us respect, compassion, and…

— Marc Bekoff

Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences of which will be drawn out over many days to come, can…

— John Maynard Keynes

Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while…

— Anonymous

I always believed in animal spirits. It's not their existence that is new. It's the fact that they are not random events, but actually…

— Alan Greenspan

The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops…

— Abdu'l-Bahá

I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping. I don't like to go into subways,…

— Sandra Cisneros

Dancing is at once rational & healthful: it gives animal spirits; it is the natural amusement of young people, & such it has been…

— William Cobbett

A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations…

— Tobias Smollett