Animal Quotes

My favorite animal is steak.
Fran Lebowitz

Favorite, Steak

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
Albert Schweitzer

Clever, Imbecile, Behaves

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx

Society, Political, Human

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
William Hazlitt

Between, Difference, Laughs

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Caring, Nation, Alive

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
Saint Augustine

Life, Pain, Action

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles

Reason, Act, Temper

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
William Hazlitt

Beauty, Health, Person

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Jose Rizal

Love, Fish, Language

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Equality, Human

I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.
Temple Grandin

Someone, Boring, Down

I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.
Jim Carrey

Live, Hard, Night

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
William Butler Yeats

Hope, End, Dying

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
Samuel Butler

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.
Richard Dawkins

Important, Lives, Point

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
David Herbert Lawrence

Good, True, Instincts

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
Harry S. Truman

Good, Human, Thought

People love their animals so much so that they put little clothes on them and necklaces and booties and things like that. And if you love your animal, then you should feed them something that's not dangerous for them. There's a lot of poisonous stuff that they're putting in a lot of that food, those by-products.
Ellen DeGeneres

Love, Food, Put

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
E. O. Wilson

Rain, Living, Earth

Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Anatole France

Him, Makes, Worst

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
Brian Tracy

Business, Person, Together

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
Adam Smith

Another, Makes, Dog

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
E. O. Wilson

Once, Social, High

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
Charles Lamb

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
Ogden Nash

Family, Women, Men

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
Chief Joseph

Love, Father, Worse

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
Doris Day

Women, Men, True

It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.
Theophile Gautier

Friendship, Place, Difficult

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt

Acting, Himself, Truly

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoir

Life, Sex, Humanity

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