Talk:Animals

Men are always like animals once you get there food they will leave you alone.

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• Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
  • Adolf Hitler (sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein).

• We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

• Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
  • Aristotle

• The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.
  • A. Whitney Brown

• 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

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

• I bought myself a parrot. The parrot talked. But it did not say, "I'm hungry,"... so it died. ~ Mitch Hedberg

• Dogs are forever in the push-up position.
  • Mitch Hedberg

• I'd hate to be a giraffe with a sore throat. ~ Mitch Hedberg

• Hot dogs: feeding the hand that bites it.
  • Laurence J. Peter, paraphrased

• We hope that, when insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on our picnics.
  • Bill Vaughan

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• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

• A heedless dog will not do for the chase.

• A lurking dog does not lie in the hyena's lair.

• A zebra is a light-colored animal with dark stripes, not a dark one with light stripes. — American Museum of Natural History
  • From Encarta Online, featured in Newsweek on December 30, 1957.

• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
  • Also an Italian proverb: A caval donato non si guarda in bocca.
  • Also a Spanish proverbs: A caballo regalado no le mires el dentado.
  • Also a Dutch proverb: Men moet een gegeven paard niet in de muil kijken.
  • Also a German proverm: Einem geschenkten Gaul schaut man nicht ins Maul.

• He who can not move an ant, and yet tries to move an elephant, shall find out his folly.

• He who goes with the wolf will learn to howl.

• His bark is worse than his bite.

• If the dog is not at home, he barks not.

• If the fly flies, the frog goes not supperless to bed.

• If you think dogs can't count, try keeping three cookies in your pocket, and giving your dog only 2.

• It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

• The butterfly that brushes against thorns will tear its wings.

• The elephant does not find his trunk heavy.

• Were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.

• When the fox dies, fowls do not mourn.

• When the goat goes abroad, the sheep must run.

• When the rat laughs at the cat, there is a hole. The rat has not power to call the cat to account. The rat does not go to sleep in the cat's bed.

Spanish proverbs

• A perro flaco, todos son pulgas.
  • To a skinny dog, all are fleas.

• En boca cerrada no entran moscas.
  • A closed mouth gathers no flies.

• Gato escaldado del agua fría huye.
  • The cat that has been scalded flees from cold water.

• Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando.
  • A bird in the hand is better than a hundred flying birds.

• Perro ladrador, poco mordedor.
  • A barking dog doesn't bite much.

• Ser como el perro del hortelano, que ni come las berzas, ni las deja comer al amo.
  • To be like the gardener's dog, who doesn't eat the cabbages, nor lets the master eat them.

• Si quieres el perro, acepta las pulgas.
  • If you want the dog, accept the fleas.