Subject: Animals (Page 2)

Riding: The art of keeping a horse between yourself and the ground.

To err is human; to purr, feline.

(1930 – ) American author and billiard player, teacher & commentator

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

You can put a coat and tie on a goat, and it’s still a goat.

When insects take over the world, we hope they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor

Once on my birthday my ol’ man gave me a bat; the first day I played with it, it flew away.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Dogs come when they’re called; cats take a message and get back to you.

(1962 – ) American English professor & writer under pen name Eloisa James

Dogs are forever in the push-up position.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Chicken: An egg's way of making more eggs.

Let fightin' dogs lie.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I spilled spot remover on my dog and now he's gone.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.

(1950 – ) American cartoonist The Far Side

I've seen insects walking around with kneepads.

(1971 – ) Irish comedian, actor & writer

Animals may be our friends; but they won’t pick you up at the airport.

(1962 – ) comedian, actor, voice actor, screenwriter, & film & television director

Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong… [they] know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why they kill you.

(1978 – ) American comedian & writer

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

Smart as a tree full of owls.

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

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Zebra: A horse behind bars.

It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.

(1919 – 1985) Scottish comedian & actor