It is remarkable that only small birds properly sing.

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

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

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

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.

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.