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| A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. | | Groucho Marx | |
| A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. | | Josh Billings | |
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| All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. | | George Orwell | |
| All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. | | Samuel Butler | |
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| Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms | | George Eliot | |
| Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion. | | Blaise Pascal | |
| As a draft-animal is yoked in a wagon, even so the spirit is yoked in this body. | | Thomas Hobbes | |
| At his best man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst | | Aristotle | |
| Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings | | Oliver Herford | |
| Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. | | Walter Scott | |
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| From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought. | | Victor Hugo | |
| Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. | | W. C. Fields | |
| 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 know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares | | George Washington | |
| I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. | | Winston Churchill | |
| I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. | | Jean Cocteau | |
| If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. | | James Thurber | |
