The mice which haunted my house were not the common ones, which are said to have been introduced into the country, but a wild native kind not found in the village. I sent one to a distinguished naturalist, and it interested him much. When I was building, one of these had its nest underneath the […]
Animals Quotes
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves. (Matthew 10:16)
We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own life, live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality never fully understanding the necessary plan.
He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from his goats. (Matthew 25:32)
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. The fact that man knows right from wrong […]
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. (Isaiah 53:5-7)
I believe that our Heavenly Father created the monkey because he was disappointed in man.
Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold. (John 10:16)
They’d had enough of freedom now, The republic of animals clamored For one single regent with absolute rule, Of this they were enamored. Every species assembled itself, Proceeded with fevered devotion, Parties were organized, ballots drawn up, Intrigues were set into motion. The steering committee for asses was By the Old-Long-Ears directed… A little horse’s-party […]
No person hath drunk a better draught than that of anger which he hath swallowed for God’s sake.
