Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
Animals Quotes
A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new game. Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along it at the water’s edge. Perhaps ten […]
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.
In the old ten-acre pasture, Lookin’ eastward toward a tree, There’s a Purple Cow a-settin’ And I know she thinks of me. For the wind is in the gum-tree, And the hay is in the mow, And the cow-bells are a-callin’ “Come and see a Purple Cow!” But I am not going now, Not at […]
The rabbit has a charming face; Its private life is a disgrace: I really dare not name to you The awful things that rabbits do.
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. 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 […]
If carrots are so good for the eyes, how come I see so many dead rabbits on the highway?
A lady came up to me on the street and pointed at my suede jacket. ‘You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?’ she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, ‘I didn’t know there were any witnesses. Now I’ll have to kill you too.’
Then, as usual, the sheep broke into ‘Four legs good, two legs bad!’ and the momentary awkwardness was smoothed over.
