quotes about animals

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses. ~David Storey


To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another. ~Katherine Paterson, Jacob Have I Loved


After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ~J.K. Rowling


Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker. ~William Green


Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy. Coffee is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so. From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat. ~Author Unknown


If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. ~Robert G. Ingersoll


A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence. ~Barbara Walters


There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel. ~Astrid Alauda, on the "hot mom" trend


No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time. ~Earl R. Beck, On Teaching History in Colleges and Universities


How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. ~Oscar Wilde


If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick's Day you get what you want very much but haven't wished for. ~Patricia Lynch


You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. ~Stephen King, The Stand


Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own. ~Johann Pestalozzi


A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ~Niccolo Machiavelli


I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical. ~Arthur C. Clarke


Long A: The Quote Garden began in 1987 when I was 13 years old and read The Scarlet Letter. As I was reading, I noticed some sentences that I really liked and wrote them on a notepad as I went along. And that is where my passion for quotations began. From then on I obsessively wrote down any short excerpts I liked and kept my collection on paper and in WordStar for CP/M as well as turning my favorites into amateur mini-posters and taping them to my bedroom walls. In early 1998 I began sharing my collection with the world by starting a site on GeoCities and learning HTML. Both the site and my obsession for quotes grew quickly with this new platform for sharing. I moved to quotegarden.com in 2001 and continue to this very day maintaining the site by typing every quote and piece of code from scratch into Notepad, and carrying paper and pen with me everywhere I go in case I see anything quotable! Believe it or not, I have yet to finish placing my entire collection online, there are still thousands of quote-scribbled scraps of paper here and there, torn-edged articles with highlighting, etc which I will eventually get around to posting.


Don't try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough. ~Arthur Freed


Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring?


After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. ~Author Unknown


Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle. ~E.V. Lucas