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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
Robert A. Heinlein1907–1988The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
Heraclitus535–470 BCFragment 97
- Knowledge
Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935“Early Forms of Liability,” Lecture I from The Common Law. (1909).
My heart in hiding
Stirred for a bird,⁠—the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889The Windhover (1877)In context
- Nature
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
William Ralph Inge1860–1954“The Idea of Progress”, Romanes Lecture (27 May 1920), reprinted in Outspoken Essays: Second Series (1922)
Now at last I can look at you in peace, I don’t eat you anymore.
Franz Kafka1883–1924To a fish, after he became a vegetarian; as quoted in Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography (1960), p. 74
- Food
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Power of the Dog, Stanza 1 (1909).
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Second Jungle Book (1895)
We be of one blood, ye and I
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Jungle Book (1894), Kaa’s HuntingIn context
- Friendship
It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is, “Run and find out”; and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Jungle Book (1894), “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”In context
This is the story of the great war that Rikki-tikki-tavi fought single-handed, through the bath-rooms of the big bungalow in Segowlee cantonment.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Jungle Book (1894), “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”In context
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.
Edward Lear1812–1888The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (1870)In context
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Harper Lee1926–2016To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Pt. 1, Ch. 10 (Atticus Finch)
- Morality
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.
Harper Lee1926–2016To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Pt. 1, Ch. 10 (Miss Maudie)
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego.
Jack London1876–1916The Call of the Wild (1903), Chapter IIn context