Keep running after a dog, and he will never bite you.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.

There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.

An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.

It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.

Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.