C. S. Lewis Quotes

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

I set my monkey on the log, and ordered him to do the Dog. He wagged his tail and shook his head, and he went and did the Cat instead.

Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

There is three different ways that autistic kids will interact with animals.And they also need to make sure that they're not getting too rough with their animals - they need to learn how to pet the dog properly, they can't be pulling its ears and things like that.

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.

Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.

Fighting should be left to dogs and cats and chickens, who can't reason.

Domesticated animals such as dogs and cats are vulnerable and entirely dependent on us for all of their needs. They live very unnatural lives because they are not part of the human world and they are not part of the animal world.

I had not spent a ton of time around animals as a kid.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

I know a lot of animal communicators and I think a lot of them are just good behaviorists because they pick up on a lot little posture things like how the eyes look, the posture of the cat ears, is it tense? They're picking up just a lot of their body cues from the dog, the cat or the horse.

Animals make us Human.

I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!"

The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

No animal admires another animal.

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

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

Once people spend time with farm animals in a loving way ... a pig or cow or a little chicken or a turkey, they might find they relate with them the same way they relate with dogs and cats. People don't really think of them that way because they're on the plate. Why should they be food when other animals are pets? I would never eat my doggies.