The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. – George Eliot
You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets. – Nora Ephron
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner. – Hebrew Proverb
It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being. – Henry David Thoreau
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet. – Colette
I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the “lower animals” (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. – Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth, 1907
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. – Winston Churchill
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
I subscribe to the theory that Mankind never domesticated any animal. They came in from the cold and looked cute until they were fed. – David Beard, @Raqhun
There is a drop of blood in the snow before me…. The coyote… is in estrus…. spurred to let out a bit of herself, sending a message, telling everyone she was now ready, that the clock of her winter was ticking toward spring. – Craig Childs, The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild
If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth. – Chief Seattle of the Suquamish Tribe, letter to President Franklin Pierce
It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Eagles do not beget Doves. – Anon.
We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them and acquired this knowledge from their animal wives. Today the priests say we lie, but we know better. – American Indian Proverb
The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride. – Proverb
