Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

I hate the sight of monkeys; they remind me so of poor relations.

Life is no way to treat an animal.

The elephant, although a gross beast, is yet the most decent and most sensible of any other upon earth. Although he never changes his female, and hath so tender a love for her whom he hath chosen, yet he never couples with her but at the end of every three years, and then only for the space of five days.

A dog starved at his master’s gate / Predicts the ruin of the state.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve and from which he cannot escape.

Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Go to the ant, you lazybones; consider its ways, and be wise.

I do not mean to call an elephant a vulgar animal, but if you think about him carefully, you will find that his nonvulgarity consists in such gentleness as is possible to elephantine nature—not in his insensitive hide, nor in his clumsy foot, but in the way he will lift his foot if a child lies in his way; and in his sensitive trunk, and still more sensitive mind, and capability of pique on points of honor.

A bull contents himself with one meadow, and one forest is enough for a thousand elephants; but the little body of a man devours more than all other living creatures.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail.

Animals are good to think with.

Happiness is a warm puppy.