Happiness is a warm puppy.

Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.

One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character; he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.

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

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

Animals are good to think with.

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.

Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.

It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.

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

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.

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.

Of all the creatures that breathe and creep on the surface of the earth, none is more to be pitied than man.