“Every animal knows more than you do”
Native American Proverb
“The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“To know that you know, and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom.”
Confucius
“Animals are my friends, and I don't eat my friends”
George Bernard Shaw
“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost”
Voltaire
“It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly.”
Theophile Gautier
“Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.”
Charles Caleb Colton