1,641 Quotes About Animal

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.

You use to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat, who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat.

I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

Judiciously show a cat milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.

Why should I disguise what you know so well, but what the crowd never dream of? We companies are all birds of prey; mere birds of prey. The only question is, whether in serving our own turn, we can serve yours too; whether in double-lining our own nest, we can put a single living into yours.

After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.