Animal Quotations

Animals are such agreeable friends--they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
- George Eliot

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
- Elias Canetti

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
- Henry David Thoreau

If called by a panther
Don't anther.
- Ogden Nash

The behavior of men to lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
- Herbert Spencer

A nightingale cannot sing in a cage.
- Thomas Fuller

If man in time of need seeks deeper knowledge concerning himself, then he must explore those animal horizons from which we have made our quick little march.
- Robert Ardrey

Men show their superiority inside; animals, outside.
- Russian Proverb

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

A cat looks down upon man, a dog looks up to a man, but a pig will look a man in the eye and see his equal. - Winston Churchill

Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.
- Milan Kundera

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it--and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.
- Samuel Butler