Animals Quotes: Creatures of Wisdom and Inspiration (Page 3)

"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time"

C. S. Lewis, Author

"Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Animals often strike us as passionate machines"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"The thing that differentiates man from animals is money"

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"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, Critic

"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, Critic

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals"

George Orwell, Author

"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"

George Orwell, Author

"In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules"

Tina Turner, Musician

"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"There's nothing funnier than the human animal"

Walt Disney, Cartoonist

"All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it"

Samuel Butler, Poet

"For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals"

Alexandra Paul, Actress

"It's been my dream to have four babies by 30. I look after animals, so I'd have a lot to give my kids"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs"

Saadi, Poet

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

Adam Smith, Economist

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms"

George Eliot, Author

"The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals"

Adam Smith, Economist

"I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people"

Edward Bond, Playwright

"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

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

Anatole France, Novelist

"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families"

Helen Hunt Jackson, Writer

"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults"

Jessamyn West, Author

"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, Saint

"The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness"

Jessamyn West, Author

"People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals"

Muhammad Iqbal, Poet

"To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

Page 3 of 14