Fernand Mery

Don’t tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don’t tell them where they know the fish.

Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.

Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.

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

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, he turned into a butterfly.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

I’d like to devote about three years to the elimination of the cow. There’s not reason in the world why the chemist can’t discover the cow’s secret of converting vegetation into dairy products. And there’s less reason why the chemist can’t do a better job of it after he learns how.

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward-you will never get her full confidence again.

The more I know about people, the more I like dogs. I simply like animals.