Who hears the fishes when they cry?

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.

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

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

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.

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.

I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature—not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

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

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.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.

Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.

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.