Animals

• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - H. L. Mencken

• All animals are equal - but some animals are more equal than others. - Animal Farm by George Orwell

• Four legs good, two legs bad. - Animal Farm by George Orwell

• Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

• Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice. - Aristotle

• The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. - Animal Farm by George Orwell

• What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so. - Hamlet by William Shakespeare

• Si quieres el perro, acepta las pulgas.
  • Translation: If you want the dog, accept the fleas. - Spanish proverb

• A caballo regalado no le mires el dentado.
  • Translation: Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. - Spanish proverb

• A perro flaco, todos son pulgas.
  • Translation: To a skinny dog, all are fleas. - Spanish proverb

• En boca cerrada no entran moscas.
  • Translation: A closed mouth gathers no flies. - Spanish proverb

• Gato escaldado del agua fría huye.
  • Translation: The cat that has been scalded flees from cold water. - Spanish proverb

• Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando.
  • Transliteration: A bird in the hand is better than a hundred flying birds.
  • Translation: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.- Spanish proverb

• Perro ladrador, poco mordedor.
  • Transliteration: A barking dog doesn't bite much.
  • Translation: His bark is worse than his bite.- Spanish proverb

• Ser como el perro del hortelano, que ni come las berzas, ni las deja comer al amo.
  • Translation: To be like the gardener's dog, who doesn't eat the cabbages, nor lets the master eat them.- Spanish proverb

• "If you think dogs can't count, try keeping three cookies in your pocket, and giving your dog only 2." - Unknown

• "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."

• "The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through." - A. Whitney Brown

• "The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for." - Will Cuppy

• "If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence." - Will Cuppy

See also Cats.