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- Attention to our duties provides far greater rewards than beauty and wit. Self-control is what differentiates us from the beasts. Without it, we are merely animals.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Secret Heart of Charlotte Lucas, 2014
- All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
- It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- Piglet, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
- Men make the mistake of thinking that because women can't see the sense in violence, they must be passive creatures. It's just not true. In one important way, at least, men are the passive sex. Given a choice, they will always opt for the status quo. They hate change of any kind, and they fight against it constantly. On the other hand, what women want is stability, which when you stop to think about it is a very different animal.
- Eric Lustbader, The Kaisho
- Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Arthur Shopenhauer
- It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
- After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein.
- Mark Gooley
- The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domesticated animal
- Sir Compton MacKenzie
- Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
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