Animals are good to think with.

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

Cows are among the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them—and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

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

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

Who hears the fishes when they cry?

There are some who, if a cat accidentally comes into the room, though they neither see it nor are told of it, will presently be in a sweat and ready to die away.

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

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

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

The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.

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.