Animal Quotes

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals... 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 splendour and travail of the earth.
Henry Beston

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Martin Buber


Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.
Jean Cocteau



Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing—not unlike friends and wives.
Gerald Durrell




Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein




Shall we, because we walk on our hind feet, assume to ourselves only the privilege of imperishability?
George Eliot

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.
Nora Ephron

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France




The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
Michael Friedman




The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mohandas Gandhi




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



Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
His Holiness The Dalai Lama




Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem.
Benjamin Hoff,
The Tao of Pooh




Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Milan Kundera,
The Unbearable Lightness of Being




I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
Gary Larson


I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.
Abraham Lincoln



The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit.
Ashley Montagu




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

QUOTES ABOUT DOGS 2

“There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog — waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.”
—Lee Iacocca (former president and CEO of Chrysler)

"Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog."
—Franklin P. Jones (humorist and PR executive)

“A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.”
―Barbara Kingsolver (author, Animal Dreams)

"When the Man waked up he said, 'What is Wild Dog doing here?' And the Woman said, 'His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.'"
—Rudyard Kipling (author, The Jungle Book)

“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”
—Dean Koontz (author, Whispers)

"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
—Ann Landers (a.k.a. Eppie Lederer; famous advice columnist)

"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
—Abraham Lincoln (16th President of the United States)

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
—Jack London (author, The Call of the Wild)

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
—Groucho Marx (comedian)

“Dogs don't rationalize. They don't hold anything against a person. They don't see the outside of a human but the inside of a human.”
—Cesar Millan (dog trainer)

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”
—Marilyn Monroe (actress, Some Like It Hot)

"No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does."
—Christopher Morley (author, Kitty Foyle)

"If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them."
—Phil Pastoret (author, Our Boarding House)

“I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.”
—Gilda Radner (comedienne)

"If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went."
—Will Rogers (actor, A Connecticut Yankee)

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."
—Andy Rooney (contributor, 60 Minutes)

"I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult."
—Rita Rudner (comedienne)

"Happiness is a warm puppy."
—Charles M. Schulz (cartoonist, Peanuts)

“If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.”
—George Bernard Shaw (playwright)

"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."
—John Steinbeck (author, The Grapes of Wrath)

"You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us."
—Robert Louis Stevenson (author, Treasure Island)

“Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.”
—Quentin Tarantino (director and screenwriter, Pulp Fiction)

“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”
—Elizabeth Taylor (actress, Cleopatra)

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons."
—James Thurber (author, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”)

“A hungry dog hunts best.”
—Lee Trevino (golfer)

"If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog."
—Harry S. Truman (33rd President of the United States)

"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
—Mark Twain (author, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

"Ever consider what our dogs 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 (author, The Accidental Tourist)

“A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.”
—Robert Wagner (actor, The Longest Day)

“Let sleeping dogs lie.”
—Robert Walpole (first Prime Minister of Great Britain)

"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can. That's almost $21.00 in dog money."
—Joe Weinstein (comedian)

"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience."
—Woodrow Wilson (28th President of the United States)