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Eagles do not beget Doves.
-Anon.
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We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better.
-American Indian Proverb
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The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride.
-Proverb
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An eagle does not catch flies.
-Proverb
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The fatter the flea the leaner the dog.
-Proverb
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
-Joseph Addison
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Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing Embraceable You in spats.
-Woody Allen
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At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
-Aristotle
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Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
-Pierre De Beaumarchais
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The dog is the god of frolic.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.
-Alexander Graham Bell
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I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
-Hilaire Belloc
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and and not by a but.
-John Berger
Why Look at Animals? about looking, 1980
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Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
-John Berryman
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The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
-Henry Beston
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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creatures through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
-Henry Beston
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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
-Josh Billings
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
-Samuel Butler
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The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
-Malcolm De Chazal
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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.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
-Sir Winston Churchill
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What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Shall we never have done with that cliche, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they'll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they'll reflect our sadness. But they flee unhappiness as they flee fever, and I believe that in the long run they are capable of boycotting it.
-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Books about Animals
