Animal Quotes

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.

We are all a quarter good, a quarter bad, a quarter animal and a quarter child which equals a whole bunch of crazy.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

I secretly want to be a zebra. That is why I always wear stripes.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

The method of learning by trial and error – of learning from our mistakes – seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practiced by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees, or by men of science.

You can eat an elephant one bit at a time.