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

—Winston Churchill, 1945

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

—Archilochus, c. 650 BC

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.

—Thomas Hobbes, 1651

What delight can there be, and not rather displeasure, in hearing the barking and howling of dogs? Or what greater pleasure is there to be felt when a dog followeth a hare than when a dog followeth a dog?

—Thomas More, 1516

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

—François Rabelais, 1535

I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.

—Henry Luttrell, 1820

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.

—Anna Sewell, 1877

Happiness is a warm puppy.

—Charles Schulz, 1971

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

—Alexander Pope, 1709

A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.

—Ben Jonson, 1633

Man and animals are really the conduit of food, the sepulcher of animals, and resting place of the dead, one causing the death of the other, making themselves the covering for the corruption of other dead bodies.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.

—The Simpsons, 1993

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

—Horace Walpole, 1777