Quotes and Sayings about Animals
We all love animals. Why do we call some “pets” and others “dinner?” ~ k.d. lang
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
- Franz Kafka
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
- Anatole France
I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.
- Mark Twain
If you love animals called pets, why do you eat animals called dinner?
The trouble with loving is that pets don’t last long enough and people last too long.
But if we stop loving animals, aren’t we bound to stop loving humans too?
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.
- Elias Canetti
Man, unlike animals, has never learned that the sole purpose in life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
- Brigitte Bardot
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
- Murray Banks
The best thing about animals is that they don’t talk much.
- Thornton Wilder
I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.
- Samuel Butler
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
- Mahatma Gandhi
All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler
Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.
- William S. Gilbert
