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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

—D.H. Lawrence, 1911

Happiness is a warm puppy.

—Charles Schulz, 1971

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.

—Increase Mather, 1684

A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.

—Seneca the Younger, c. 64

It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.

—Charles Darwin, 1871

Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.

—Gnomologia, 1732

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

—François Rabelais, 1535

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. 

—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821

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

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

—Henry Luttrell, 1820

Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.

—John Florio, 1578

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

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

—Erich Fromm, 1947