Animals-Pets

(109 votes)   Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.

Edward Hoagland
1932-, American Novelist, Essayist

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(104 votes)   There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1845, American Poet, Critic, short-story Writer

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(103 votes)   The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to the female of its choice, mating only every third year and then for no more than five days, and so secretly as never to be seen, until, on the sixth day, it appears and goes at once to wash its whole body in the river, unwilling to return to the herd until thus purified. Such good and modest habits are an example to husband and wife.

St. Francis De Sales
1567-1622, Roman Catholic Bishop, Writer

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(88 votes)   What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.

Chief Seattle
1786-1866, American Indian Chief of the Suquamish

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(84 votes)   They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago.

Walt Whitman
1819-1892, American Poet

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(82 votes)   Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Georg Hegel
1770-1831, German Philosopher

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(74 votes)   Happiness to a dog is what lies on the other side of a door.

Charleton Jr. Ogburn

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(66 votes)   A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

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(63 votes)   In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.

Ouida
1838-1908, British Writer

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(62 votes)   The owl of ignorance lays the egg of pride.

Proverbs

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(59 votes)   An eagle does not catch flies.

Proverbs

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(57 votes)   Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(55 votes)   The better I know men the more I admire dogs.

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