How Did They Get There?

Truth is always strange. - Lord Byron

My favorite animal is steak. - Fran Lebowitz

PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals - Unknown

Politics makes strange red-fellows. - Will Rogers

Politics makes strange postmasters. - Kin Hubbard

Can vegetarians eat animal crackers? - George Carlin

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Watchdog: Animal that keeps the best time - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

When wine goes in strange things come out. - Friedrich Schiller

The buffalo is a surprisingly stupid animal. - Ellsworth Huntington

Only animals were not expelled from Paradise. - Milan Kundera

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

Strange how little a while a person can be contented. - Mark Twain

Mmmm, pork chops and bacon... my two favorite animals. - Homer Simpson

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

Contempt for animal life leads to contempt for human life. - Edward Abbey

Hot Dog: The only animal that feeds the hand that bites it - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Mouse: An animal which strews its path with fainting women. - Ambrose Bierce

The only meat I eat is from animals I've killed myself. - Mark Zuckerberg

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

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

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened. - Anatole France

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. - Groucho Marx

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

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights. - Laura Mennell

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

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

Humility is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it. - Unknown

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

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either. - Julius Lester

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

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

I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal. - Yoko Ono

Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. - Alan Alda

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

There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. - James Dean

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

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

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

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. - Noam Chomsky

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

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

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

I am bewildered by the thousands of strange people who write me letters. They do not know me. Why do they do that? - Greta Garbo

Physics is about questioning, studying, probing nature. You probe, and, if you're lucky, you get strange clues. - Lene Hau

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

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. - Bertrand Russell

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

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. - Oscar Wilde

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. - Bertrand Russell

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

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

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. - Paul Harvey

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