Animals

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• "All animals are equal — but some animals are more equal than others." --Animal Farm by George Orwell

• "Four legs good, two legs bad." --Animal Farm by George Orwell

• "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." --Animal Farm by George Orwell

• "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so." --Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Attributed

• "A caballo regalado no le mires el dentado."
  • Translation: Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. --Spanish proverb

• "A perro flaco, todos son pulgas."
  • Translation: To a skinny dog, all are fleas. --Spanish proverb

• "En boca cerrada no entran moscas."
  • Translation: A closed mouth gathers no flies. --Spanish proverb

• "Gato escaldado del agua fría huye."
  • Translation: The cat that has been scalded flees from cold water. --Spanish proverb

• "Hot dogs: feeding the hand that bites it." --Laurence J. Peter, paraphrased

• "If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence." --Will Cuppy

• "If you think dogs can't count, try keeping three cookies in your pocket, and giving your dog only 2."

• "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats."
  • Translation: Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice. --Aristotle

• "Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando."
  • Transliteration: A bird in the hand is better than a hundred flying birds.
  • Translation: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. --Spanish proverb

• "Perro ladrador, poco mordedor."
  • Transliteration: A barking dog doesn't bite much.
  • Translation: His bark is worse than his bite. --Spanish proverb

• "Ser como el perro del hortelano, que ni come las berzas, ni las deja comer al amo."
  • Translation: To be like the gardener's dog, who doesn't eat the cabbages, nor lets the master eat them. --Spanish proverb

• "Si quieres el perro, acepta las pulgas."
  • Translation: If you want the dog, accept the fleas. --Spanish proverb

• "The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for." --Will Cuppy

• "The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through." --A. Whitney Brown

• "We hope that, when insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on our picnics." --Bill Vaughan

• "The butterfly that brushes against thorns will tear its wings." --Anonymous

• "If the dog is not at home, he barks not." --Anonymous

• "A heedless dog will not do for the chase." --Anonymous

• "A lurking dog does not lie in the hyena's lair." --Anonymous

• "He who can not move an ant, and yet tries to move an elephant, shall find out his folly." --Anonymous

• "The elephant does not find his trunk heavy." -Anonymous

• "Were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal." --Anonymous

• "If the fly flies, the frog goes not supperless to bed." --Anonymous

• "When the fox dies, fowls do not mourn." --Anonymous

• "When the goat goes abroad, the sheep must run." --Anonymous

• "When the rat laughs at the cat, there is a hole. The rat has not power to call the cat to account. The rat does not go to sleep in the cat's bed." --Anonymous

• "He who goes with the wolf will learn to howl." --Anonymous

See also

• Cats
• Goats