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- Favorite animal: steak.
- Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
- Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
- Erving Goffman
- Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
- Fork, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- 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)
- Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed to be a cat.
- Rule 46, Oxford Union Society, London
- Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
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