Animal Quotes

Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.

There’s a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.

Use a sweet tongue, courtesy, and gentleness, and thou mayest manage to guide an elephant by a hair.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.