There is nothing funnier
than the human animal.
-Walt Disney
People can be fairly ridiculous animals.
-Barbara Kingsolver
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
-Peter de Vries
Clearly, the city is not a concrete jungle,
it is a human zoo.
-Desmond Morris
Zoo: an excellent place
to study the habits of human beings.
-Evan Esar
Humans are animals of habit.
-Arundhati Roy
Be a good animal,
true to your instincts.
-D. H. Lawrence
If man was what he ought to be,
he would be adored by the animals.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
Animals do not admire each other.
A horse does not admire its companion.
-Thomas Mann
No bird soars too high,
if he soars with his own wings.
-William Blake
The bird's delirium
does not interest the trees.
-Henri Michaux
A forest bird never wants a cage.
-Henrik Ibsen
The bird who has eaten
cannot fly with the bird that is hungry.
-Omaha Indian Saying
Eagles come in all shapes and sizes,
but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
-E. F. Schumacher
An eagle has nothing to say to a parrot.
-Vernon Howard
The eagle never lost so much time
as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
-William Blake
A swallow cannot know
the lofty ambition of an eagle.
-Chinese Proverb
He whose game is the eagle
takes no heed of the sparrow.
-Alexandre Dumas
Eagles don't chase flies.
-Mongolian Proverb
Eagles we see fly alone;
and they are but sheep which always herd together.
-Philip Sidney
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?
Or wilt thou go ask the Mole?
-William Blake
The sparrow flying behind the hawk
thinks the hawk is fleeing.
-Japanese Proverb
Many indeed are the owls who know no song
unlike their own hooting.
-Kahlil Gibran
The crow wished everything was black,
the owl, that everything was white.
-William Blake
When a dove begins to associate with crows
its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.
-German Proverb
What, is the jay more precious than the lark,
Because his feathers are more beautiful?
-William Shakespeare
The sparrow is sorry for the peacock
at the burden of his tail.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Let the long contention cease!
Geese are swans and swans are geese.
-Matthew Arnold
It's not the fault of the parrot,
but of the one who teaches him to talk.
-Guatamalian Proverb
You know how chickens are,
imagining the world coming to an end at one moment,
then pecking corn the next.
-Lloyd Alexander
When the elephant decides to walk through the village,
all the dogs come out and bark.
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
If a camel once gets his nose in the tent,
his body will soon follow.
-Saudi Arabian Proverb
One camel does not make fun
of another camel's hump.
-Ghanaian Proverb
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump;
you might be freeing him from being a camel.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton
To give your sheep or cow a large spacious meadow
is the only way to control him.
-Shunryu Suzuki
A leopard does not change his spots,
or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
-Ivy Compton-Burnett
Did you think the lion was sleeping
because he didn't roar?
-Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The polar bear and the tiger cannot fight.
-Sigmund Freud
The lion doesn't turn around when the small dog barks. -African Proverb
The lion is not so fierce as painted.
-Thomas Fuller
It is alright for the lion and the lamb to lie down together
if they are still asleep,
but if one of them begins to get active,
it is dangerous.
-Crystal Eastman
The lion and the lamb shall lie down together.
but the lamb won't get much sleep.
-Italian Proverb
There may come a time
when the lion and the lamb will lie down together,
but I am still betting on the lion.
-Josh Billings
No absolute is going to make
the lion lie down with the lamb
unless the lamb is inside.
-D. H. Lawrence
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb,
and the rose grow without thorn.
-Martin Amis
The bleating of the lamb
merely arouses the tiger.
-French Proverb
Tis a silly sheep
that makes the wolf her confessor.
-French Proverb
There's a black sheep in every flock.
-English Proverb
Men are like sheep,
of which a flock is more easily driven
than a single one.
-Richard Whately
A dog is the god of frolic.
-Henry Ward Beecher
A dog wags its tail with all its heart.
-Max Buxbaum
Pay attention
when an old dog is barking.
-Proverb
A barking dog is often more useful
than a sleeping lion.
-Washington Irving
Don't let the same dog bite you twice.
-Chuck Berry
The rabbit's eye differs
from that of the owl.
-Greek Proverb
Mosquitoes cannot bite an iron ox.
-William Douglas Horden
With a stout heart,
a mouse can lift an elephant.
-Tibetan Proverb
It is only cold-blooded animals
whose bite is poisonous.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Just because the river is quiet does not mean the crocodiles have left. -Malay Proverb
Even the hand of compassion is stung when it strokes a scorpion. -Persian Proverb
The bloodsucker never cares about the social status of anyone. -Cameroonian Proverb
It takes a season
for the snake to change into its new skin.
-African Proverb
All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too hard for any frog's digestion,
To have his froghood call'd in question!
-Christopher Smart
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
-Aristophanes
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
-Charles H. Spurgeon
The cut worm forgives the plow.
-William Blake
When spider webs unite,
they can tie up a lion.
-Ethiopian Proverb
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
-William Blake
A bee is never as busy as it seems;
it's just that it can't buzz any slower.
-Kin Hubbard
There's nothing in a caterpillar
that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
The butterfly often forgets
it once was a caterpillar.
-Swedish Proverb
Even the smallest of creatures
carries the sun in its eyes.
-Antonio Porchia
