(1800 quotes found)
“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons”
Robertson Davies
“I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.”
David Sedaris
“If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.”
Martin Delany
“About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“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
“The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.”
Christine Stevens
“The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others”
Saint John Chrysostom
“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”
Albert Schweitzer
