Mark Twain Quotes, Character Quotes, Animal Quotes

There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.

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Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.

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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Horse Quotes , Animal Quotes

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

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The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.

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The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil. The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored

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Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

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PIG, n. An animal ("Porcus omnivorus") closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.

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My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Animal Quotes , Humans Quotes

Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.

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I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

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Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?

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I am like a wounded animal in a remote isolated place - How wonderful! - How happy!

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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Animal Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Running Quotes , Animal Quotes

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

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