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Life is no way to treat an animal.

—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005

Imitate the ass in his love to his master.

—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

—Horace Walpole, 1777

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

—Henry David Thoreau, 1849

Happiness is a warm puppy.

—Charles Schulz, 1971

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

—Alexander Pope, 1709

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

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.

—Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.

—Thomas Browne, 1658

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.

—Thomas Hobbes, 1651

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

—William Blake, 1807

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

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

—Henry Luttrell, 1820