Loving touch makes the difference. Without Mom's chicken soup, without Mother Teresa,
without the loving touch of our neighbor in church or a caress in the hospital,
we might as well live like animals.
- Everett Tetley
No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.
- G. K. Chesterton
Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?
- Marianne Moore
Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off,
and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.
But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly,
except to people who don't understand.
- Margery Williams The Velveteen Rabbit
People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa.
That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals . . .
We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love.
- Miriam Makeba
Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions,
grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.
- Alfred A. Montapert
You're a good example of why some animals eat their young
- Jim Samuels
Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction,
so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious
of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted,
has to have experienced a shock of some kind.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
- Sir Winston Churchill
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers
- Joseph Blosephina
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm
- Malayan proverb
If we're not supposed to eat animals...how come they're made out of meat?
- Unknown
It is a matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical animal,
tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment.
He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.
- Theophile Gautier
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Sir Winston Churchill
A kitten is a rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom.
- Robert Southey
Never try and teach a pig to sing: it's a waste of time, and it annoys the pig.
- Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies,
who like to eat theirs.
- P. J. O'Rourke
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