He slipped quietly away with no pain or suffering and is now buried in the garden with lots of tennis balls. Rest now old friend. See you in the sweet bye and bye. – Monty Don Gardener’s tribute to his retriever Nigel who died aged 11.
No animal in England is free. The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. – George Orwell Animal Farm. Chapter 1. Old Major, on the tyranny of man towards animals.
I really only worked for about a month on ‘Meatballs.’ What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with ‘Animal House’ except the producer. So he thought he’d better start directing. – Harold Ramis
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. – H. L. Mencken
The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House. – Harold Ramis
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman. – Henry Fielding
I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season. – Hedy Lamarr
Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits. – Gary L. Francione
The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. – Henry Mayhew
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. – H. L. Mencken
There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families. – Helen Hunt Jackson
There is no ‘need’ for us to eat meat, dairy or eggs. Indeed, these foods are increasingly linked to various human diseases and animal agriculture is an environmental disaster for the planet. – Gary L. Francione
Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that’s got true religion, several of them. – Hal Holbrook
The human animal originally came from out-of-doors. When spring begins to move in his bones, he just must get out again. Moreover, as civilization, cement pavements, office buildings, radios have overwhelmed us, the need for regeneration has increased, and the impulses are even stronger. – Herbert Hoover
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied. – Henry George
We eat animals because they taste good. And if that’s O.K., what’s wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use. – Gary L. Francione
I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal. – Gina McKee
It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous climate variation. – Hendrik Poinar
You don’t have to wear fur. They make such great fakes. There’s no reason to kill an animal. – Grace Slick
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. – Jared Diamond
He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material. – George Gaylord Simpson
Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation. – Ike Skelton
I live in New York, and the only live animals you see are cockroaches, rats and pigeons, which I admire immensely. When I see an animal that thrives in the garbage, I feel relief; in our urban environment, other animals are dying out. – Isabella Rossellini
Goats are the cable talk show panelists of the animal world, ready at a moment’s notice to interject, interrupt, and opine. They have something to say about everything, little of it complimentary. They are the most impertinent animals I have ever known. – Jon Katz
My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration. – Jonathan Safran Foer
It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium. – Ivan Pavlov
I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don’t understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you. – James Cameron
