It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.

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

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

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.

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.

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?

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

Life is no way to treat an animal.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

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

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.

Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.