Animal Quotes - page 3

A cow is a very good animal in the field but we turn her out of a garden. (Samuel Johnson)
I'm not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pat them, but I am intoxicated by animals. View quote
David Attenborough
It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. View quote
Théophile Gautier
It cannot be too frequently emphasized that the behavior of any animal must depend upon on the nature of the stimulus which it meets, its anatomic and physiologic capacities, and its background of previous experience. Unless it has been conditioned by previous experience, an animal should respond identically to identical stimuli, whether they emanate from some part of its own body, from another individual of the same sex, or from an individual of the opposite sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
PIG, n. An animal ('Porcus omnivorus') closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Man is a reasoning Animal. View quote
Seneca
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden. View quote
Robert Southey
Vegetarianism alone can give us the quality of compassion, which distinguishes man from the rest of the animal world. View quote
Morarji Desai
I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal. View quote
Morarji Desai
The devils of past religions have always, at least in part, had animal characteristics, evidence of man's constant need to deny that he too is an animal, for to do so would serve a mighty blow to his impoverished ego. (Anton LaVey)
Man prides himself on being the only animal who can modify his nature, yet when he chooses to do so he is called a phony. View quote
Anton LaVey
Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace. View quote
Ingrid Newkirk
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die. View quote
Don DeLillo
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal. View quote
Michael Chabon
My favorite animal is steak. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal. View quote
John Steinbeck
Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of Saint John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comp. (Heinrich Heine)
The following general definition of an animal a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort. View quote
Denis Diderot
It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages! View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. View quote
Peter McWilliams
Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control. View quote
Paul Theroux