Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Animals

• The dog is the god of frolic.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, War, Animal

• Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Animal, Men, Climate

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Animal, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.100, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

• Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Animal, Men, Stirring

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, Horse, Animal

• There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Animal, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Animal, Imagination, Temptation

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