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

—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BC

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.

—Joseph Addison, 1711

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.

—Frederick the Great, 1759

Happiness is a warm puppy.

—Charles Schulz, 1971

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

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

Life is no way to treat an animal.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005

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

—Samuel Butler, c. 1890

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.

—St. Francis de Sales, 1609

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

—William Blake, 1807

Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.

—John Florio, 1578

Imitate the ass in his love to his master.

—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

—Henry David Thoreau, 1849