How Did They Get There?

My favorite animal is steak. - Fran Lebowitz

PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals - Unknown

We hold these semi-animal meetings. - Archie Bunker

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. - Ellsworth Huntington

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. - Mark Twain

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. - Plato

Mothers of teens know why some animals eat their young. - Unknown

Having an animal in your life makes you a better human. - Rachel Ray

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it. - Raymond Chandler

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. - George Bernard Shaw

All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. - George Orwell

Hamster: The animal least likely to be found in a synagogue - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

All animals are minor variations on a very particular theme. - Richard Dawkins

We're the only animal that wakes up and doesn't stretch. - Conor McGregor

There is nothing so powerful as truth - and often nothing so strange. - Daniel Webster

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. - Plato

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. - Loren Eiseley

It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes. - Terri Minsky

What do you do when you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant? - George Carlin

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side. - Scott Westerfeld

Chocolate makes otherwise normal people melt into strange states of ecstasy. - John West

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem. - A A Milne

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler

Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Husband-hunting: A sport in which the animal that gets caught has to buy the license - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. - John Hodgman

Animals are simply sophisticated machines created by the infinitely skilled artisan, God. - Brian G Henning

Moose: An animal that has a head and horns on one end and a living room wall on the other - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. - Freya Stark

The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein: it rejects it. - P.B. Medawar

A racehorse is an animal that can take several thousand people for a ride at the same time. - Marjorie Johnson

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. - A. Whitney Brown

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. - Aristotle

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. - Vladimir Nabokov

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals. - Leo Tolstoy

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi

So come, and slowly we will walk through green gardens and marvel at this strange and sweet world. - Sylvia Plath

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. - H L Mencken

A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it. - Groucho Marx

I like cookies, any cookie you put in front of me - animal cookies, sugar cookies, anything crunchy. - Maria Shriver

I was readin' an article about the animal population - there's millions of pets explodin'. - Archie Bunker

Animals are like little children a bit. They're simple. They don't have politics driving them. - Annabelle Sabloff

It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses. - Estella Warren

My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen. - Quvenzhane Wallis

Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange. - Dan Gable

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash

I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked. - Amy Lee

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals... except the weasel. - Homer Simpson

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs. - P J O'Rourke

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. - Eva Hoffman

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. - Mark Twain

Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't. - Laurie H. Anderson

You love flowers, but you cut them. You love animals, but you eat them. You tell me you love me, so now I'm scared. - Unknown

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained. I stand and look at them long and long. - Walt Whitman

When you hunt animals, you may succeed or not. But when you open the fridge, you will succeed a hundred percent of the time. - Nora Volkow

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet. - Barbara Kingsolver

Animals have one thing that puts them way ahead of people: they don't dissemble, and you don't have to pretend in front of them. - Ivan Klima

God gave unto the Animals
A wisdom past our power to see:
Each knows innately how to live,
Which we must learn laboriously. - Margaret Atwood

Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness where the explorers often get lost. - W.S. Anglin

Man is the only animal who enjoys the consolation of believing in a next life; all other animals enjoy the consolation of not worrying about it. - Robert Brault

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. - Joseph Addison