Top Animal Quotes
Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
Jose Rizal
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
Bill Vaughan
I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal.
John Elway
Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?
Bindi Irwin
H. L. Mencken 
Thomas Carlyle 
William Jennings Bryan 
Anatole France 
George G. Simpson 
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin 
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I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.
William Jackson
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Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.
Jared Diamond
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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
Edward Thorndike
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If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements become impure, and even their milk may no longer be consumed. The animal must then be killed and as quickly as possible and burned.
Ayatollah Khomeini
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I'd gone into that restaurant and sat down and the waitress had taken my order and everybody else had seen me with this what must have looked like this creature, this animal, sitting on the top of my head!
Derek Jacobi
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Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.
Thomas Willis
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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.
Edsger Dijkstra
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To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.
Louis Leakey
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
Jacob Bronowski
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Popular Animal Authors
George Bernard ShawMark TwainOscar WildeSamuel JohnsonVictor HugoThomas JeffersonSamuel ButlerThomas Carlyle PlatoH. L. Mencken AristotleDoug CouplandBertrand RussellWilliam HazlittDavid Herbert Lawrence
Gertrude SteinArthur SchopenhauerAdlai E. StevensonCarl SandburgHarry S. TrumanJonathan SwiftGroucho MarxGustave FlaubertJim CarreyWilliam Butler YeatsAlbert SchweitzerHenri Frederic AmielJeanette WintersonHedy LamarrKarl Marx
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