Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see.
– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you turn your back on these people, you yourself are an animal. You may be a well-dressed animal, but you are nevertheless an animal.
– Edward Irving Koch
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
– Albert Schweitzer
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
– Mark Twain
Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.
– Plato
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn't reserve a patch for
– Dag Hammarskjld
Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries avoid all entanglements.
– Clive Staples Lewis
I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying
– Jalal ud-Din Rumi
Man is by nature a political animal.
– Aristotle
Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
– Wendell Phillips
From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some into a more fortunate estate, and some quite contrary. . .Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine. Once separated from the body, and after the struggle to acquire piety, which consists in knowing God and injuring none, such a soul becomes all intelligence. The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy. . .The soul passeth from form to form and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man yea, thou art from everlasting.
– Hermes
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
– Samuel Butler
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
– Rebecca West
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.
– Ogden Nash
A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.
– Clifford Geertz, "Cultural Anthropology" by Nanda
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
– Henry Louis Mencken
About the rhinoceros Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste.
– Randolph Silliman Bourne
After several minutes of utterly dull conversation I began to think of her not as a woman but as a human, then not as a human but as an animal, then not as an animal but as a source of high-grade protein.
– Mark Gooley
At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning.
– Martin Luther
Do not be proud just because you have brute force, because an animal has brute force too! Either you be proud with your intellect and with your thoughts or be silent and sit down!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Every animal knows more than you do. Nez Perce
– American Indian Proverb
Favorite animal: steak.
– Fran Lebowitz
Here's a suggestion for a new animal, if some new ones get created or evolve something that stings you, then laughs at you.
Human animal is considered the most valuable animal to enforce/ensure each others growth
– GSAN
I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching.
