How Did They Get There?

My favorite animal is steak. - Fran Lebowitz

PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals - Unknown

We hold these semi-animal meetings. - Archie Bunker

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Watchdog: Animal that keeps the best time - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

When wine goes in strange things come out. - Friedrich Schiller

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. - Ellsworth Huntington

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

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

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it. - Raymond Chandler

Hot Dog: The only animal that feeds the hand that bites it - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

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 is strange to be known so universally and yet be so lonely. - Albert Einstein

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

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange. - Daniel Webster

Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them. - Elvis Presley

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. - Bernard Williams

It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes. - Terri Minsky

What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant? - George Carlin

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. - Scott Westerfeld

Chocolate makes otherwise normal people melt into strange states of ecstasy. - John West

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem. - A A Milne

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal. - Charles Darwin

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. - Sara Teasdale

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The turkey is living proof that an animal can survive with no intelligence at all. - Harvey D. Comstock

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. - John Hodgman

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein: it rejects it. - P.B. Medawar

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal. - Yoko Ono

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

There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. - James Dean

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. - H L Mencken

A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it. - Groucho Marx

I was readin' an article about the animal population - there's millions of pets explodin'. - Archie Bunker

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses. - Estella Warren

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another. - Rene Descartes

Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange. - Dan Gable

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

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel. - Homer Simpson

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. - P J O'Rourke

I am bewildered by the thousands of strange people who write me letters. They do not know me. Why do they do that? - Greta Garbo

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. - Eva Hoffman

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues. - Lene Hau

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

Monkey: 1. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees; 2. A key that won't open a door. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't. - Laurie H. Anderson

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

Horse: 1. An oatsmobile; 2. An animal that cannot say yes, only neigh; 3. An animal that goes to bed with its shoes on. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and long. - Walt Whitman

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult. - C S Lewis

Mule: 1. An animal that is stubbornly backward about going forward; 2. An animal who boasts that his ancestors were horses. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet. - Barbara Kingsolver

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

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness where the explorers often get lost. - W.S. Anglin

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. - Robert Brault

A great lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting - only the deeply personal and familiar. - John Steinbeck

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