Animal Quotes


Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn’t in us. It’s almost as if we are put here on earth to show how silly they aren’t.
Russell Hiban (b.1925) British author.

I know two things about the horse, And one of them is rather coarse.
Anonymous.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This ,however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.
Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) English born Canadian economist and humorist.

To confess that you are totally Ignorant about the Horse, is social suicide: you will be despised by everybody, especially the horse.
W.C. Sellar (1898-1951) British humorous writer.

Nowadays we don’t think much of a man’s love for an animal; we laugh at people who are attached to cats. But if we stop loving aniamals, aren’t we bound to stop loving humans too?
Alexander Solzhnitsyn (1918) Soviet novelist.

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they known nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.
Voltaire (Francois – Marie Arouet; 1694-1778) French writer.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self contained.
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892) American poet.

A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
John Berger (b.1926) British critic.

Of all God’s creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author.

The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowhere in a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.
John Berger (b.1926) British critic.

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