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Animal Quotes - Quotations About Animals
"Only animals were not expelled from Paradise."
-- Milan Kundera
"Animals are such agreeable friends
- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."
-- George Eliot
"Men show their superiority inside; animals, outside."
-- Russian Proverb
"An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
-- Martin Buber
"God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat.
He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas."
-- Pablo Picasso
Quotations About Butterflies
"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
-- Muhammad Ali
"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued,
is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you."
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Butterflies are self propelled flowers."
-- R.H. Heinlein
"Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases
and it pleases wherever it goes."
-- Anonymous
"I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free."
-- Charles Dickens
"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."
-- Carl Sagan
"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly,
but rarely admit the changes it has gone through
to achieve that beauty."
-- Maya Angelou
"The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect
climate changes on the other side of the planet."
-- Paul Erlich
"Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time."
-- Deborah Chaskin
Quotes About Cats
"A cat looks down upon man, a dog looks up to a man,
but a pig will look a man in the eye and see his equal."
-- Winston Churchill
"Nature breaks through the eyes of the cat."
-- Irish proverb
"When the cat's away, the rats dance on the table."
-- Swedish proverb
"Anyone who claims that a cat cannot give a dirty look
either has never kept a cat or is singularly unobservant."
-- Maurice Burton
"The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him."
-- Rudyard Kipling
"When I play with my cat, who knows whether
she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
-- Montaigne
"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash.
That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat
it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat."
-- Mark Twain
"With their qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage,
how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?"
-- Fernand Mery
"I have studied many philosophers and many cats."
The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
-- Hippolyte Taine
"Everything I know I learned from my cat:
When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam.
When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner."
-- Gary Smith
"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel.
True, and they have many other fine qualities as well."
-- Missy Dizick
"One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other,
whether it's affection, the taste or a trial run for the jugular."
-- Helen Thomson
"Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods.
Cats have never forgotten this."
-- Anonymous
"A cat sees no good reason why it should obey another animal,
even if it does stand on two legs."
-- Sarah Thompson
"Cats are kindly masters, just so long as you remember your place."
-- Paul Gray
"One must love a cat on its own terms."
-- Paul Gray
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
-- Ben Williams
Cats and Dogs
"A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat."
-- George Mikes
"You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people,
because cats find humans useful domestic animals."
-- George Mikes
"You own a dog but you feed a cat."
-- Jenny de Vries
"Women and cats will do as they please
and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance,
everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him."
-- Dereke Bruce
Dog Quotes
"Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit,
you would stay out and your dog would go in. "
-- Mark Twain
"A dog is the only thing on earth
that loves you more than he loves himself."
-- Josh Billings
"The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him,
and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself, too. "
-- Samuel Butler
"Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us,
yes, but they haven't been true to themselves."
-- Clarence Day
"A dog is the only thing on earth that will love you more than you love yourself."
-- Josh Billings
"If your dog thinks you're the greatest person in the world,
don't seek a second opinion."
-- Jim Fiebig
"Never trust a dog to watch your food."
-- Anonymous
"Blessed is the person who has earned the love of an old dog."
-- Sydney Jeanne Seward
"Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog;
but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog."
-- Douglas Mallock
"Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot about little puppies."
-- Gene Hill
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
-- Ann Landers
Dragons
"Meddle not in the affairs of the dragon;
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
-- Anonymous
"So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending."
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
"The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
"It does not do to leave a live dragon
out of your calculations, if you live near him."
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
"Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive."
-- Henry Ellis
"Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon."
-- Steven Brust
"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales
whose gates are guarded by dragons:
we must fight in order to conquer it."
-- Alexandre Dumas
Elephants
"A true philosopher is like an elephant;
he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place."
Fontenelle
Fairies
"Spread your wings and let the fairy in you fly!"
-- Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams."
Douglas Jerrold
"We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss."
-- Charles de Lint
"I believe in everything until it's disproved.
So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons.
It all exists, even if it's in your mind.
Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
-- John Lennon
Horses
"There is something about the outside of a horse
that is good for the inside of a man."
-- Winston Churchill
"Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground."
-- Anonymous
"It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall."
-- Mexican Proverb
"To ride a horse is to ride the sky."
-- Anonymous
"A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves
- strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability
of giving us escape from our mundane existence."
-- Pam Brown
"The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us
in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire."
-- Sharon Ralls Lemon
"Riding: The art of keeping a horse between you and the ground."
-- Anonymous
"It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall."
-- Mexican Proverb
"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle."
-- Winston Churchill
"Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above
the ground than other men, you will know what that means."
-- Rudolf C. Binding
"The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears."
Arabian Proverb
"I can always tell which is the front end of a horse,
but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary."
-- Mark Twain
"If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle."
-- Rita Mae Brown
"A horse is worth more than riches."
-- Spanish Proverb
"When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something.
When you're my age, you splatter."
-- Roy Rogers
"In riding a horse we borrow freedom."
-- Helen Thomson
"Feeling down? Saddle up."
-- Anonymous
Pigs
"I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig.
You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."
-- Cyrus Ching
Spiders
"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."
-- Ethiopian Proverb
"The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line."
-- Alexander Pope
Teddy Bears
"I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me."
-- Pooh (A. A. Milne)
"Everything in life I share, except of course my teddy bear!"
-- Anonymous
"You really don't have to be young to find a friend in a teddy bear."
-- Rachel Newman
"Teddy bears don't need hearts as they are already stuffed with love."
-- Anonymous
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