William Clay Quotes

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

I love animals. I just don't want to have a pet. That's OK, right? I would take a dog over a cat, at least to interact with you. I feel like cats just stare you down all the time. Cats have, like, bad attitudes.

I'm fascinated by animals and couldn't live without Dewy, my Boston bulldog.

If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.

The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.

It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

You can keep a dog: but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.

You are hierarchical. That's the older and more entrenched characteristic. We saw it in your closest animal relatives and in your most distant ones. It's a terrestrial characteristic. When human intelligence served it instead of guiding it, when human intelligence did not even acknowledge it as a problem, but took pride in it or did not notice it at all... That was like ignoring cancer.

A cat may look at a king.

Cats are the tigers of us poor devils.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?

You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

How do you plan to keep me here during the day? An unblooded Forbearer shouldn't be sohard to vanquish."Vanquished by her? Amusing. "I'll send you back to the cell. You want to be my pet? I'll takeyou out and put you back in your cage at my pleasure."She blinked at him. "You don't want to send me back. Who will entertain you? I can deal pokerand make shadow animals.

Dogs serve people, but people serve cats.

Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many people were under the impression that I owned a badly behaved rabbit.

Authority is quite degrading.

The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped me. It seemed to explain almost everything, and I applied it to everything.

The weak are meat the strong do eat.