The righteous know the needs of their animals, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

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

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

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

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.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

Man is a troublesome animal and therefore is not very manageable.

The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.

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

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

Men, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.