“You are not at all like my rose,” he said. “As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and […]
Animals Quotes
A spider is proud of catching a fly; so is one man of trapping a hare, or another of netting a sprat, or a third of capturing boars or bears or Sarmatians. If you go into the question of principles, are these anything but robbers one and all?
If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
But you must look at this matter in every light. Though so short a period ago – not a good lifetime – the census of the buffalo in Illinois exceeded the census of men now in London, and though at the present day not one horn or hoof of them remains in all that region; […]
A jolly old sow once lived in a sty. And three little piggies had she, And she waddled about, saying, “Umph! Umph! Umph!” While the little ones said, “Wee Wee!” – “My dear little brothers,” said one of the brats, “My dear little piggies,” said he, “Let us all for the future say, ‘Umph! Umph! […]
Nor, considered aright, does it seem any argument in favor of the gradual extinction of the Sperm Whale, for example, that in former years (the latter part of the last century, say) these Leviathans, in small pods, were encountered much oftener than at present, and, in consequence, the voyages were not so prolonged, and were […]
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man, All things are connected.
He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from anger.
The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep the shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master seeks not me: therefore, I am no sheep… The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not the sheep; thou for wages followest thy master, thy master for wages follows not thee: […]
They’d had enough of freedom now, The republic of animals clamored For one single regent with absolute rule, Of this they were enamored. Every species assembled itself, Proceeded with fevered devotion, Parties were organized, ballots drawn up, Intrigues were set into motion. The steering committee for asses was By the Old-Long-Ears directed… A little horse’s-party […]
