Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.

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

Do you not see how God is praised by those in the heavens and those on earth? The very birds praised Him as they wing their way.

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.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

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

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

A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.

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

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.

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

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