Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A good dog, sir, deserves a good bone.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

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

There be beasts that, at a year old, observe more, and pursue that which is for their good more prudently, than a child can do at ten.

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.

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.

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