Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

In every man is a wild beast; most of them don’t know how to hold it back, and the majority give it full rein when they are not restrained by terror of law.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

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?

Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

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

The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.

A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.

Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.

Imitate the ass in his love to his master.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?