Talk:Animals

Men are always like animals once you get there food they will leave you alone.

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• Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
  • Adolf Hitler (sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein).

• We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

• Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice.
  • Aristotle

• The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.
  • A. Whitney Brown

• If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
  • Will Cuppy

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

• I bought myself a parrot. The parrot talked. But it did not say, "I'm hungry,"... so it died. ~ Mitch Hedberg

• Dogs are forever in the push-up position.
  • Mitch Hedberg

• I'd hate to be a giraffe with a sore throat. ~ Mitch Hedberg

• Hot dogs: feeding the hand that bites it.
  • Laurence J. Peter, paraphrased

• We hope that, when insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on our picnics.
  • Bill Vaughan

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• A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

• A heedless dog will not do for the chase.

• A lurking dog does not lie in the hyena's lair.

• A zebra is a light-colored animal with dark stripes, not a dark one with light stripes. — American Museum of Natural History
  • From Encarta Online, featured in Newsweek on December 30, 1957.

• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
  • Also an Italian proverb: A caval donato non si guarda in bocca.
  • Also a Spanish proverbs: A caballo regalado no le mires el dentado.
  • Also a Dutch proverb: Men moet een gegeven paard niet in de muil kijken.
  • Also a German proverm: Einem geschenkten Gaul schaut man nicht ins Maul.

• He who can not move an ant, and yet tries to move an elephant, shall find out his folly.

• He who goes with the wolf will learn to howl.

• His bark is worse than his bite.

• If the dog is not at home, he barks not.

• If the fly flies, the frog goes not supperless to bed.

• If you think dogs can't count, try keeping three cookies in your pocket, and giving your dog only 2.

• It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

• The butterfly that brushes against thorns will tear its wings.

• The elephant does not find his trunk heavy.

• Were no elephant in the jungle, the buffalo would be a great animal.

• When the fox dies, fowls do not mourn.

• When the goat goes abroad, the sheep must run.

• When the rat laughs at the cat, there is a hole. The rat has not power to call the cat to account. The rat does not go to sleep in the cat's bed.

Spanish proverbs

• A perro flaco, todos son pulgas.
  • To a skinny dog, all are fleas.

• En boca cerrada no entran moscas.
  • A closed mouth gathers no flies.

• Gato escaldado del agua fría huye.
  • The cat that has been scalded flees from cold water.

• Más vale pájaro en mano que ciento volando.
  • A bird in the hand is better than a hundred flying birds.

• Perro ladrador, poco mordedor.
  • A barking dog doesn't bite much.

• Ser como el perro del hortelano, que ni come las berzas, ni las deja comer al amo.
  • To be like the gardener's dog, who doesn't eat the cabbages, nor lets the master eat them.

• Si quieres el perro, acepta las pulgas.
  • If you want the dog, accept the fleas.

Cet animal est très méchant

"Cet animal est très méchant / Quand on l'attaque il se défend" ("This animal is very mean / when someone attacks it, it defends itself"). The quotation is evidently from a song called "La Ménagerie" by someone called Théodore P. K. who is otherwise unknown (some sources give his name as P. K. Théodore). It was written in 1828 according to the most reliable sources (but some say 1868). The singer takes the voice of a carnival barker encouraging potential customers to pay two sols or sous (10 centimes or a tenth of a franc) to see the various animals. In context, "this animal" is obviously a reference to a leopard. More verses of the song can be read here: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Phras%C3%A9ologie_fran%C3%A7aise/C3Q5AQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=voici+lheure,c%C3%A9s+le+moment+entrez+tous+ici+dedans.+%C3%A7a+ncoutque+deux+sols+par+t%C3%AAte&pg=PA453&printsec=frontcover on p. 453. The song may have been a parody of a line from an earlier work about historical voyages published in 1826 which says, regarding a voyage of Vasco da Gama, "Ces animaux sont si furieux, qu'ils se défendent contre ceux qui les attaquent" ("These animals are so furious that they defend themselves against those who attack them.") These animals are called "loups-marins" in the original, probably a reference to walruses. More on this theory at https://www.guichetdusavoir.org/question/voir/14316

A slightly different wording is attributed to "H. D'Audigier" in Grand Dictionnaire Universel du XIXe Siècle volume I (1866), p. 392 ( https://www.google.com/books/edition/Grand_dictionnaire_universel_du_XIXe_si/rlG_2zvaFncC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=m%C3%A9chant ): "Cet animal est fort méchant: / Quand on l'attaque, il se défend". I have no further information on H. D'Audigier. 69.161.125.36 15:22, 17 July 2023 (UTC)