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The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister's expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her - a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied in an awkward bow around its neck.
Sep 10, 2025
I think breeds of dogs and breeds of men are quite a bit alike. If you think it’s insulting that I compare people with animals, well, if you knew how I love animals, you would understand that coming from me, this is a compliment.
I really love animals and enjoy working with them.
We always had dogs,so I understood all the joy and the love animals are capable of giving. It's crazy to me that some people have dogs in thier homes, but they treat them more like furniture.
If you're going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you're going to lose them. It's helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.
Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.
I've always been an animal lover. People should be made aware of all the issues. Some people think that the whole wearing-fur thing is glamorous, but you can look good without it.
I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and also because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
If you love animals, don't eat them.
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.
My reason for becoming a vegetarian was simple: I loved (and love) animals
I'm the best animal lover in the world. There's nobody who takes care of their pets like me...... they are my children.
I love animals because all they really want from you is love. Too bad that's even too much to ask for from some people.
I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them.
Have compassion towards each other, including animals. Love and respect every living being on this planet - a key factor to a greater society.
I love animals, but I don't really like riding animals. Like, I don't love being on a horse - it's just not my thing.
I am a huge animal lover. I prefer to rescue any of the pets that I have had.
My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.
Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs...
You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.
Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things.
May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
A good deed done to an animal is as meritorious as a good deed done to a human being, while an act of cruelty to an animal is a bad as an act of cruelty to a human being.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!
Animals are just pure, uncomplicated entities of creation from God. They live like the Maasai do in Kenya-for each day is forever to them and the "Now" is what they live in. You can get aggravated with your pets and yell at them, but in a matter of minutes they are licking your hand again in love.
Animal lovers often tend to be misanthropes or loners, and so they transfer their affection to the creature in their control.
But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.