Pets Quotes
Shakespeare, Robert Heinlein, Jane Goodall, John Heywood and Mark Twain share the top places. Twain, in What Is Man? (1906), is withering about man’s vanity in calling an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Bertrand Russell, in 1948, points out that a dog cannot relate his autobiography or tell you that his parents were honest but poor, and Bierce’s definition of a cat is an automaton to be kicked when things go wrong at home.
Three lines are flagged. “Time spent with cats is never wasted,” credited to Sigmund Freud, is marked misattributed. A remark that a cat cannot hide its feelings is credited to Hemingway and disputed, and so is a saying about religion being like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat, credited to Oscar Wilde.
I see this wicked creature ordained of God to punish us for our sins and unthankfulness.
Do you know they're now producing eating dogs for the anorexics?
Weren't humans domesticated by the requirements of the plants and animals themselves?
If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?
I'm coming back as a cat or a tree or a molecule in my next life.
"Animal is driven by instincts, human by values, aims and reasons."
Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.
Before the cat tastes the fish, his whiskers must feel the head.