How Did They Get There?

Truth is always strange. - Lord Byron

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Can vegetarians eat animal crackers? - George Carlin

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

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

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

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

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme. - Richard Dawkins

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. - Groucho Marx

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

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. - Martin Buber

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

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

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

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

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. - Groucho Marx

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

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

Husband-hunting: A sport in which the animal that gets caught has to buy the license - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

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

A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time. - Marjorie Johnson

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

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. - Leo Tolstoy

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi

So come, and slowly we will walk through green gardens and marvel at this strange and sweet world. - Sylvia Plath

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

My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen. - Quvenzhane Wallis

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

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

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

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

There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature. - Danny Meyer

You love flowers, but you cut them. You love animals, but you eat them. You tell me you love me, so now I'm scared. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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