Subject: Animals (Page 2)

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

(1948 – ) English novelist

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist

Man is the only animal that blushes… or needs to.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

A few cobras in your home will soon clear it of rats and mice… of course, you will still have the cobras.

(1884 – 1949) American humorist & literary critic

Free Puppies: part German shepherd, part stupid dog.

I love defenseless animals… especially in good gravy.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

You're a good example of why some animals eat their young.

(1948 – 1990) comedian

I bought myself a parrot, but it did not say “I’m hungry”, and so it died.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Never wear anything that panics the cat.

(1947 – ) author, humorist & satirist

Did you know that a possum walking through a cornfield sounds exactly like three men with an ax?

(1954 – ) American stand-up comedian

Fiddle: An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

But… You’re a Horse

A study says owning a dog makes you 10 years younger; my first thought was to rescue two more, but I don’t want to go through menopause again.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.

(1966 – ) American stand-up comic

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

Our dog died from licking our wedding picture.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

(1943 – ) U.S. agriculture commissioner, columnist, activist & author

Animals have two vital functions in today's society: to be delicious and to fit well.

(1959 – ) American actor, stand-up comedian & television host

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

(1917 – 1998) author, critic, animal rights activist

Any man who hates dogs and babies can’t be all bad.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist