Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.

Imitate the ass in his love to his master.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

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.

Man is no man, but a wolf, to a stranger.

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

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

A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.