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- The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
- Jilly Cooper
- One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
- No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- My favorite animal is steak.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
- Michael Friedman
- A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- 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.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
- Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
- Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
- Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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