funny animals with quotes

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill


If I knew something that would serve my country but would harm mankind, I would never reveal it; for I am a citizen of humanity first and by necessity, and a citizen of France second, and only by accident. ~Montesquieu


Get a feel for fur: Slam your fingers in a car door. ~Anonymous, on the use of steel traps to capture fur-bearing animals, cited in Audubon, November 1990


Coffee is the best thing to douse the sunrise with. ~Terri Guillemets


Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ~George Washington


Men like a woman with a daring tongue. That's a double-entendre, which reminds me they also like a m�nage � trois. ~Carrie Latet


In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. ~John Fowles


Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. ~John Wesley


The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life. ~Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave


It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wishe for medicines. ~Thomas More, Utopia sic


Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Raindrops are like fairy whispers. ~Author Unknown


Good things come to those who bait. ~Author Unknown


Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature. ~Dave Foreman, Harper's, April 1990


Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. ~George-Louis de Buffon


I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted. ~Author Unknown


Your ancient gladness! ~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"


You can't say civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way. ~Will Rogers, New York Times, 23 December 1929


Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. ~J.B. Priestley


When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874