Animal Quotes

• Time spent with cats is never wasted.

  Sigmund Freud

  Time, Cat, Humanity

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• Animals are footprints of God.

  Martin Luther

  Evolution, Footprint

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• Animals can be understimulated, but hardly bored.

  Lars Svendsen

  Bored

  Lars Svendsen (2005). “A Philosophy of Boredom”, p.32, Reaktion Books

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• Many birds and beasts are...as fit to go to Heaven as many human beings - people who talk of their seats there with as much confidence as if they had booked them at a box office.

  Leigh Hunt

  People, Office, Bird

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• I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

  Edward Carpenter

  Eye, Soul, Pet

  Edward Carpenter, Tony Brown (1990). “Edward Carpenter and Late Victorian Radicalism”, p.40, Psychology Press

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• Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

  Douglas Malloch

  Friendship, Dog, Hurt

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• Treat other animals as friends and they become friends. Treat other animals as family and they become family. Give other animals your love and they will love you in return.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Friendship, Family, Love You

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• Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.

  Victor Hugo

  Eye, Reflection, Soul

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing

  Gene Baur

  Helping, Bigs, Big Things

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• I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

  James Stewart

  Rights, Pet, Should

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• Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Inspirational, Nature, Silence

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• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

  Samuel Butler

  Dog, Humorous, Personality

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Men, Compassion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.15, Publishdrive

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• Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Thinking, Sloth

  Albert Einstein (2016). “The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It”, p.24, Open Road Media

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• Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Sports, Gun, Hunting

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• Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us

  Marc Bekoff

  Doe, Different, May

  Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

  Edward Abbey

  Friendship, Dog, Silly

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• Never wear anything that panics the cat.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Cat, Humanity

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

  Emile Zola

  Men, Welfare, Cruelty

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• The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

  Axel Munthe

  Inspirational, Freedom, Democracy

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• There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

  Bernard Williams

  Happiness, Dog, Nature

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• Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Differences, Brutality, Victim

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• Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.

  Eloisa James

  Dog, Cat, Humanity

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  Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

  Anne Tyler

  Funny, Dog, Mean

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

  Clint Eastwood

  Childhood, Innocence

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