Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
—George Eliot, 1857Quotes
Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.
—John Florio, 1578Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.
—Gnomologia, 1732Imitate the ass in his love to his master.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 388Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.
—Book of Proverbs, c. 350 BCMen, my dear, are very queer animals—a mixture of horse nervousness, ass stubbornness, and camel malice.
—T. H. Huxley, 1895Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.
—Napoleon Bonaparte, 1816A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.
—Ben Jonson, 1633Who hears the fishes when they cry?
—Henry David Thoreau, 1849Alas! We are ridiculous animals.
—Horace Walpole, 1777We 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.
—Anna Sewell, 1877Animals, 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.
—Joseph Addison, 1711Happiness is a warm puppy.
—Charles Schulz, 1971