Animal Quotes - page 2

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not. (Gertrude Stein)
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. View quote
Willa Cather
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw. View quote
James Herriot
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. View quote
Henry Fielding
Man [is a] tool-making animal. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. View quote
Anatole France
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. View quote
H. G. Wells
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. (H. L. Mencken)
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities. View quote
Eric Hoffer
In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined. View quote
Thomas Szasz
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. View quote
Mark Twain
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. View quote
C. S. Lewis
To live alone one must be an animal or a god --says Aristotle. There is yet a third case one must be both --a philosopher. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human. View quote
Andre Comte-Sponville
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressly for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals. View quote
Philip Kapleau
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal. View quote
Brian May
Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive. (Christian Lous Lange)
My favorite animal is the mule. He has more sense than a horse. He knows when to stop eating - and when to stop working. View quote
Harry S. Truman
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. View quote
William Hazlitt
The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon. View quote
Angelina Jolie
I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs and cats, for example - from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussels sprouts. View quote
Kristen Bell