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- 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)
- Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.
- Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
- For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imaginations, we learned to talk.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- I don't know if the presidential candidates are running for the White House or Animal House.
- Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
- Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- I don’t like animals. It’s a strange thing, I don’t like men and I don’t like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), "Molloy", 1951
- Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.
- Matt Groening (1954 - ), The Simpsons
- Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "The Lowest Animal"
- I wanted to talk to the animals like Dr. Doolittle.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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