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

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.

Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king’s horses.

The fox knows lots of tricks, the hedgehog only one—but it’s a winner.

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.

Man is merely a more perfect animal than the rest. He reasons better.

Alas! We are ridiculous animals.

Who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

Every creature in the world is like a book and a picture, to us, and a mirror.

Imitate the ass in his love to his master.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

How like to us is that filthy beast the ape.