Instinct is animal strength. [ Daniel Webster ]

Man, I tell you, is a vicious animal. [ Moliere ]

A coward is the kindest animal;
'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight. [ Dryden ]

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction. [ Hazlitt ]

Man is a social animal formed to please in society. [ Montesquieu ]

Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest. [ Pliny ]

Expediency is a law of nature.
The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel. [ Beaconsfield ]

Handsomeness is the more animal excellence, beauty the more imaginative. [ Hare ]

The animal with long ears, after having drunk, gives a kick to the bucket. [ From the Italian ]

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden. [ Samuel Johnson ]

The best metal is iron, the best vegetable wheat, but the worst animal is man. [ Proverb ]

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, pass no criticisms. [ George Eliot ]

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage. [ Wendell Phillips ]

From Paris to Peru, from Japan to Rome, the most foolish animal, in my estimation, is man. [ Boileau ]

They rejoice each with their kind, lion with lioness, so fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. [ Milton ]

The race is won as much by the dexterity of the rider as by the vigor and fleetness of the animal. [ Earl of Bath ]

Constant and exclusive devotion to mere physical necessities, degrades man to the rank of an animal. [ Lamennais ]

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [ Goethe ]

Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this, - one dog does not change a bone with another. [ Adam Smith ]

Sweet reader, do you know what a toady is? That agreeable animal which you meet every day in civilised society. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms. [ W. Godwin ]

Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity. [ Joubert ]

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence. [ George Eliot ]

Man is at bottom a savage animal and an object of dread, as we may see (it is added) he still is when emancipated from all control. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

A man who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. [ Frederick the Great ]

You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong. [ Bob Hagel ]

There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead. [ Pope ]

Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man. [ Saadi ]

A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow. [ Smollett ]

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. [ William Shakespeare ]

Contrary to popular belief, the most dangerous animal is not the lion or tiger or even the elephant. The most dangerous animal is a shark riding on an elephant, just trampling and eating everything they see. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

It takes twenty years to bring man from the state of embryo, and from that of a mere animal, as he is in his first infancy, to the point when his reason begins to dawn. It has taken thirty centuries to know his structure; it would take eternity to know something of his soul; it takes but an instant to kill him. [ Voltaire ]

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]

All things are engaged in writing their history. The planet, the pebble, goes attended by its shadow. The rolling rock leaves its scratches on the mountain; the river, its channel in the soil; the animal, its bones in the stratum; the fern and leaf, their modest epitaph in the coal. The falling drop makes its sculpture in the sand or the stone. Not a foot steps into the snow or along the ground, but prints, in characters more or less lasting, a map of its march. Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of its fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds, the sky of tokens, the ground is all memoranda and signatures, and every object covered over with hints which speak to the intelligent. [ Emerson ]