(1799 quotes found)
“If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.”
Martin Delany
“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
“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
“Cats are connoisseurs of comfort”
James Herriot
“It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.”
Henrik Ibsen
“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
Immanuel Kant
“Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway.”
Mary Kay Ash
“Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.”
Buddha
“I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat animals who are”
Groucho Marx
“It is much easier to show compassions to animals. They are never wicked.”
Haile Selassie
