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Happiness is a warm puppy.

—Charles Schulz, 1971

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

—Horace Walpole, 1777

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

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

—Homer, c. 750 BC

A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.

—Seneca the Younger, c. 64

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

—William Blake, 1807

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

—D.H. Lawrence, 1911

An ape will be an ape, though clad in purple.

—Erasmus, 1511

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

—Gnomologia, 1732

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

—Alexander Pope, 1709

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

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. 

—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 1821

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

—Henry David Thoreau, 1849