Quotations about Animals

An ever expanding collection of thoughts about all kinds of animals.

Quotes and Quotations about cats and dogs

"Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway."
--- Mary Kay Ash

"All of the animals except for man know that the
principle business of life is to enjoy it."
--- Samuel Butler

"Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts"
-- Coleman Cox 

"Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms"
---  George Eliot

"Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people."
--- W.C. Fields

" The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
---  Mahatma Gandhi

"Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends"
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Psychologists tell us that there are several different ways to approach the learning of a complex skill such as horseback riding.  The obvious essential is the application of the seat of one's pants to the back of a horse..."
--- William Steinkraus

"Penguins mate for life. That doesn't surprise me much because they all look alike. It's not like they're going to meet a really new, great looking penguin someday."
--- Anonymous