George Orwell Quotes

For cats, a hound is a natural enemy. This is the order of things.

Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It makes us wonder what goes on in their heads even though we fully realize that the answer can only be approximated.

I have an incredible relationship with dogs. I'm kind of a dog-whisperer.

The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.

I miss the early days; I do. I was so lucky. I basically had it to myself, learning about these chimpanzees. Nobody knew anything about them. Discovering their different personalities, different life histories. I was lucky.

Following rules is, of course, the reason the dog is man's best friend is because the dog follows rules, and they actually do experiments on that, is that how well certain breeds of dogs follow rules, and how much they internalize them. And so many hierarchical animals, obviously they follow rules.

Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

If you ever saw a cat and a dog eating out of the same plate, you can bet your ass it was the cat's food.

When the horse and the mare both trot, the colt seldom paces.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.

Lions make leopards tame.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

How I exist in this world is that you're in or you're out. You are family or you are the enemy.

Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings.

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.

Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it." "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.

The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.

Penguins mate for life. Which doesn't really surprise me, because they all look exactly alike. It's not like they're gonna meet a better-looking penguin someday.

Mandarin ducks mate for life and will die of loneliness if separated from their chosen mate.

So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG

Embryology furnishes, also, the best measure of true affinities existing between animals.