Animal Quotes

Poetry is a religion without hope. The poet exhausts himself in its service, knowing that, in the long run, a masterpiece is nothing but the performance of a trained dog on very shaky ground.

Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.

You know what the problem that animal activists sometimes have? They only concentrate on the heartbreaking things to the point where the general public thinks, ‘Oh, here comes those animal folks again and I’m going to hear all the things I don’t want to hear.’

Elephants and grandchildren never forget.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

I’m human, you’re human. So they said, but inside we’re all animals.

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

As long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap the joy of love.

If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

But the life of a man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.