"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own."

Animals, Children, Faces

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"Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don't think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn't start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

Animals, Cats, History, Companionship, Observation

"Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

Animals, Humor, Perception, Absurdity

"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

Animals, Being, Children

"The dog is a gentleman, I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

Mark Twain, American Author

Animals, Heaven, Gentleman, Hope

"Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail."

Chris Murray, Irish Author

Animals, Dogs, Loyalty, Happiness, Love

"Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Animals, Cats, Identity, Peace

"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Animals, Freedom, Responsibility, Parenting

"We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Animals, Life, Death, Afterlife

"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."

Mark Twain, American Author

Animals, Speech, Cat, Personality

"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Animals, Man, Reward

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"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."

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