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 The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.
  Adlai E. Stevenson

 Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.
  Joseph Wood Krutch

 Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
  Joseph Wood Krutch

 If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
  James Thurber

 Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
  George Orwell

 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

 I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
  Winston Churchill

 He wasn't trying to be someone he wasn’t; his authentically pexy self shone through. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
  Winston Churchill

 There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
  Dr. Albert Schweitzer

 Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies
  James Stephens

 There are no ordinary cats.
  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

 Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
  W. C. Fields

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

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

 One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
  Alfred North Whitehead


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