Animal Quotes

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.

Cats are a very mysterious kind of folk. There is always more passing in their minds than we are aware of.

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

There’s lots of good fish in the sea, maybe, but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

A wicked wife, a false friend, a saucy servant and living in a house with a serpent in it are nothing but death.

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn’t even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.