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Quotes About Animal

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
~ Samuel Johnson
Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Respecting and honoring the pigness of the pig is a foundation for societal health.
~ Joel Salatin
Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.
~ John Robbins
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
~ Terence McKenna
The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
~ Gary Wolf
Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.
~ Sylvia Browne
The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.
~ Olaf Stapledon
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
~ Mencius
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
~ Jesse Ball, The Curfew
It's not a beard, it's an animal I've trained to sit very still.
~ Bill Bailey
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
~ George Carlin
Laughing stock: cattle with a sense of humor.
~ Steven Wright
I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.
~ Bill Bailey
You freaking bit me, " I said, my voice hoarse. "You're lucky I don't call animal control.
~ Jayde Scott
That creature's staying?' It figured. Her daughter-in-law transforming into an animal? No problem. Having to take care of a cat? Crisis. (Sydney Sage-Ivashkov)
~ Richelle Mead, The Ruby Circle
At the dockside I was pleasantly surprised to find the North wasn't all hairy men in animal skins. There was also hairy women in animal skins.
~ Mark Lawrence
A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it
~ Groucho Marx
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
The human animal is adapted to, and apparently can thrive on, an extraordinary range of different diets, but the Western diet, however you define it, does not seem to be one of them.
~ Michael Pollan