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

The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.

There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.

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?

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

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

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.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

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

A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.

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.

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals—except the weasel.

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.