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

—Plautus, c. 200 BC

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

—Winston Churchill, 1945

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

—Alain de Lille, c. 1200

Animals are good to think with.

—Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1962

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

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

—George Eliot, 1857

Life is no way to treat an animal.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

—Voltaire, 1769

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

—Henry David Thoreau, 1849

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

—Alexander Pope, 1709

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.

—The Qur’an, c. 620

Cows are among 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, 1821

Imitate the ass in his love to his master.

—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388