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The girl slept on, motionless, in that curled-up looseness achieved by some women and all cats.
Raymond Chandler1888–1959“I’ll Be Waiting” (short story), The Saturday Evening Post (14 October 1939)
- Sleep
There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.
Desmond Morris1928–2026The Naked Ape (1967), Introduction, p. 9
- Science
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849The Black Cat (1843)
- Love
Speciesism⁠—the word is not an attractive one, but I can think of no better term⁠—is a prejudice or attitude of bias in favor of the interests of members of one’s own species and against those of members of other species.
Peter Singerborn 1946Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for our Treatment of Animals (1975), Ch. 1: All Animals Are Equal
- Morality
Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
Heraclitus535–470 BCFragment 97
- Knowledge
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Philosophical Investigations (1953), Pt II, p. 223 of the 1968 English edition
- Talking
Sharks are hardy creatures, but they do not thrive on public transportation.
Dave Barryborn 1947I’ll Mature When I’m Dead (2010), p. 83
- Comedy
The kindness lavished on dogs, if evenly distributed, would establish peace on earth.
WFWilliam Feather1889–1981Featherisms (2008)
I’m not an animal lover if that means you think things are nice if you can pet them, but I am intoxicated by animals.
David Attenboroughborn 1926Interview in Metro 29 Jan 2013
It is mankind’s discovery of language which more than any other single thing has separated him from the animal creation.
Robertson Davies1913–1995On Seeing Plays (1990).
- Talking
Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady’s sparrow is dead, the sparrow my lady’s pet, whom she loved more than her own eyes.
Catullus84–54 BCIII, lines 1–4
If I were reincarnated, I’d want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner1897–1962Interview with Jean Stein, The Paris Review, No. 12 (Spring 1956)
- Comedy
A man that don’t love a Horse, there is something the matter with him. If he has no sympathy for the man that does love Horses, then there is something worse the matter with him.
Will Rogers1879–1935The Illiterate Digest (1924)
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive. This is the story of how a few of them came to be as they are.
David Attenboroughborn 1926Life on Earth (1979), Opening narration
- Nature
And our little girl — Tricia, the 6-year old — named it Checkers. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog and I just want to say this right now, that regardless of what they say about it, we’re gonna keep it.
Richard Nixon1913–1994Checkers speech (1952)
- Politics