Animals Quotations
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| It is an important and popular fact that things are not always what they seem. For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely the same reasons. | |||
| - Douglas Adams | |||
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| To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. | |||
| - Isaac Asimov | |||
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| Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. | |||
| - George Eliot | |||
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| It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. | |||
| - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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| I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. | |||
| - Mark Twain | |||
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| 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. | |||
| - Voltaire | |||