Animal Analogy Quotes

Democracy is ... a form of religion; it is the worship of jackals by jackasses.

Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?

Indians and wolves are both beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape.

The Chameleon's face reminded Aristotle of a Baboon. Aristotle wasn't much of a looker himself.

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression which fails to appreciate that some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and that some humans are just the same.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

Cell phones are like a dog's nipples... you don't have to shout into them!

If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.

They run like deer, jump like deer and think like deer.

It always seems to me when the anti-suffrage members of the Government criticise militancy in women that it is very like beasts of prey reproaching the gentler animals who turn in desperate resistance when at the point of death.

American soldiers must be turned into lambs and eating them is tolerated.

And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.

The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.

The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground world and water striders live in a surface tension-dominated flatland, we live in a social world.

I feel like a dog who has been to the vet too many times.

He's as strong as an ox...and ALMOST as smart!

There were two Republican responses to the State of the Union. So if you watched the whole night, it was kind of evolution in reverse. You have Obama, then Paul Ryan, and then Michele Bachmann. Then Animal Planet had a squirrel monkey give his take.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

I don't like to talk about it in those terms; it's impossible to describe who or what God "is." Suppose you were a horse, and you were asked to describe what a human being was like. You couldn't do it.

A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.

A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!