How Did They Get There?

Truth is always strange. - Lord Byron

PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals - Unknown

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

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

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

Animals are like people because people are animals. - Barbara T Gates

time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes - e e cummings

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. - Plato

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

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

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

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

Mouse: An animal which strews its path with fainting women. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

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

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. - Anatole France

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

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

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

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

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it. - Unknown

Moose: An animal that has a head and horns on one end and a living room wall on the other - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either. - Julius Lester

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

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

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

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones

Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. - Alan Alda

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. - Vladimir Nabokov

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

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

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

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

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

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

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

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 just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. - Mark Twain

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

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

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

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed a hundred percent of the time. - Nora Volkow

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

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

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 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