'Hang Ten' Perseverance Pays Off

My favorite animal is steak. - Fran Lebowitz

Moose are the squirrels of Alaska. - Tim Moon

We hold these semi-animal meetings. - Archie Bunker

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. - Ellsworth Huntington

A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit. - Sarah J. Parker

My music is best understood by children and animals. - Igor Stravinsky

Mmmm, pork chops and bacon... my two favorite animals. - Homer Simpson

Mothers of teens know why some animals eat their young. - Unknown

Having an animal in your life makes you a better human. - Rachel Ray

Contempt for animal life leads to contempt for human life. - Edward Abbey

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. - George Orwell

Hamster: The animal least likely to be found in a synagogue - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all. - Cleveland Amory

Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free. - Carol J Adams

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. - Thornton Wilder

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect. - Dylan Moran

I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me. - Willem Dafoe

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. - Loren Eiseley

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights. - Laura Mennell

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. - Erik Satie

Animals are simply sophisticated machines created by the infinitely skilled artisan, God. - Brian G Henning

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. - A. Whitney Brown

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky

I like cookies, any cookie you put in front of me - animal cookies, sugar cookies, anything crunchy. - Maria Shriver

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice. - Stephen Covey

I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked. - Amy Lee

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. - Henrik Ibsen

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

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox. - Francois Truffaut

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland

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

Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them. - Ivan Klima

Ugly animals have it rough. We're more likely to eat them or let them go extinct, and less likely to adopt them from animal shelters. - Joshua A Krisch

God gave unto the Animals
A wisdom past our power to see:
Each knows innately how to live,
Which we must learn laboriously. - Margaret Atwood

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. - Mark Twain

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around. - Ernest Hemingway

Animals are like little angels sent to earth to teach us how to love. They don't get angry or play silly games. They are always there for us. - Whitney Mandel

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. - Joseph Addison