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- The difference between man and animals is that we don't use our tongue to clean our genitals.
- Rimmer - Red Dwarf
- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.
- Kelvin Throop
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29.
- P.J. O'Rourke (commenting on _Moby Dick_)
- The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".
- H. Allen Smith
- It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
- Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
- Man is 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 capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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