Animals Quotes

Animals are such agreeble friends...

O, reason not the need: our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's

According to the laws of aerodynamics, the bumblebee can't fly either. But the bumblebee doesn't know anything about the laws of aerodynamics, so it goes ahead and flies anyway.

'Humans have evolved in order to function in our own limited world,' he said 'just like every other animal. Yes, we're smarter. We couldn't outrun tigers or outfight bears, so we had to out-think them. But just because some of us our smarter than kangaroos, doesn't mean we know everything.'

Split the lark—and you'll find the music—
Bulb after bulb, in silver rolled—
Scantily dealt to the summer morning
Saved for your ear when lutes be old.

Now I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance — a sharp, vindictive glance.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

To travel in the company of animals is to walk with angels, guides, guardians, jesters, shadows and mirrors. It cannot imagine how it is to travel bereft of such excellent companions.

We recommend that no one eat more than two tons of turkey-that's what it would take to poison someone.

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Tie me kangaroo down, sport.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

People are more violently opposed to fur than to leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly!
Like a teatray in the sky.