Famous Animal Quotes and Sayings
Famous animal quotes, poems, and sayings.
"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber" - Sir Winston Churchill.
- "No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink." - G. K. Chesterton.
"Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind." - Arthur Schopenhauer.
"It is a matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave." - Theophile Gautier.
"Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons." - Douglas Adams.
"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." - Marianne Moore
"Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?" - Marianne Moore
"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to." - Alfred A. Montapert.
"Old Mother Shuttle acoured out her coal-scuttle,
And washed both her dog and her cat;
The cat scratched her nose, so they came to hard blows,
And who was the gainer by that?" - anon
"I bought a dog ... I named him Stay. It's fun to call him... 'Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!' ... Now he just ignores me." - Steven Wright.
"Even wild animals, if you keep them in confinement, forget their fierceness." - anon.
"A nation's progress can be judged by how they treat their animals." - Gandhi.
"Be as wise as the serpent and gentle as the dove." - St. Matthew 10:16
"Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals." - Tacitus
"Every animal loves itself." - Cicero
"Man is a two-legged animal without feathers." - Plato
"Man is a plucked chicken" - Diogenes
"A timid dog barks more violently than it bites." - Curtius
"When one dog barks, another immediately begins to bark as well" - anon.
"A dog in the manger will not let the ox eat the hay nor will it eat the hay itself." - anon.
"A cat likes fish, but it does not like to wet its paws." - anon.
"The fox knows many devices, the cat only one - to run up a tree." - anon
| TIGER, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder and what art Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand and what dread feet? |
What the hammer? what the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp? Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee? Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? |
