Quotes About Instinct

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

But the dog who is rabid is not by bowl attracted. (Mais le chien qui est enragé n'est par gamelle attiré)

The animal is not afraid of the flame, but of the heat it emanates. (L'animal n'a peur de la flamme, - Mais de la chaleur qu'elle émane.)

The survival instinct prove that we are alive. (L'instinct de survie - Prouve qu'on est en vie.)

When a dog mews, it's because he eats him (Si le chien miaule, c'est qu'il le mange)

Meow says the cat ,quack says the duck , Bow wow wow says the dog ! Grrrr!

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human natur.

Judiciously show a cat, milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.

But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself--you know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.

Trust your intuition and be guided by love.

The evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand years of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man is, and always will be, a wild animal.

Instinct is untaught ability.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, While meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray...

Intuition, my trustworthy friend...

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Marriage is an institution for the paralysis of the sexual instinct.

Air was filtering out of my two collapsing lungs. Water rose, bubbling to enter, and I would have died of instantaneous pneumonia - something I have never heard of - if my hand had not got hold of a glass ashtray and, entirely apart from my personal decision, flung it.

Common decency and civil behaviour are just a thin veneer over the animal at the core of mankind that gets out whenever it has the chance.

No need to teach an eagle to fly.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.