Animal Quotes - Page 4

• Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Dog, Philosophical, Cat

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  Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Deep Love, Breathing, Passionate

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.168, Delphi Classics

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• If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing to obey the commands of a rabbit.

  Robert Breault

  Humility, Intelligent, Men

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• The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless a creature the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of humankind.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Nature, Greatness

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• Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Nature, Stupid

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• People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

  Richard Gere

  Rights, People, Campaigns

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• Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a series of complicated changes, during which they often acquire organs which have no function, and which, after remaining visible for a short time, disappear without leaving a trace ... To the Darwinian, the explanation of such facts is obvious. The stage when the tadpole breathes by gills is a repetition of the stage when the ancestors of the frog had not advanced in the scale of development beyond a fish.

  Francis Maitland Balfour

  Science, Simple, Simplicity

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• The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But not until recently has it been recognized that in living organisms, as in the realm of crystals, chemical differences parallel the variation in structure.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Science, Differences, Variation

  Karl Landsteiner (2013). “The Specificity of Serological Reactions”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?

  Aldo Leopold

  Nature, Ignorance, Men

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.557, Library of America

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• The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

  Gertrude Stein

  Men, Literature, Differentiate

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal.

  Joni Mitchell

  Likes, Humans, Human Animal

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• The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Cat, Denmark In Hamlet

  1600-1 Hamlet to Laertes. Hamlet, act 5, sc.1, l.288-9.

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• A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.

  William Blake

  Heaven, Humanity, Cages

  "Auguries of Innocence" l. 5 (ca. 1803)

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• It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.

  Carmen Electra

  Fashion, Vegetarian, Creatures

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• The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins as the differences in form. If we could define clearly the differences in molecular constitution and functions of different kinds of organisms, there would be possible a more illuminating and deeper understanding of question of the evolutionary reactions of organisms than could ever be expected from morphological considerations.

  Ray Lankester

  Science, Differences, History

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• Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little puppies.

  Gene Hill

  Dog, Nature, Silly

  Gene Hill (2013). “A Hunter's Fireside Book: Tales of Dogs, Ducks, Birds, & Guns”, p.62, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

  Paul McCartney

  Character, Men, Compassion

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• [About gorillas] You take these fine, regal animals. How many (human) fathers have the same sense of paternity? How many human mothers are more caring? The family structure is unbelievably strong.

  Dian Fossey

  Mother, Strong, Father

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

  Samuel Butler

  Life, Motivational, Happiness

  Way of All Flesh (1903) ch. 19

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  If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Cat, Appreciate

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• During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.

  Lorenz Oken

  Science, Class, Development

  Lorenz Oken, Alfred Tulk (1847). “Elements of Physiophilosophy”, p.491

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• Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Science, Law, Males

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• Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

  Richard Owen

  Science, Differences, Nomenclature

  Richard Owen (1848). “On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton”, p.7

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• Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

  Richard Owen

  Science, Differences, Nomenclature

  Richard Owen (1848). “On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton”, p.7

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• Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.

  Charles Darwin

  Curiosity, Suffering, May

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