Quotes about Animals

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.

Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Our people believed every creature had a spark—nitzotz—that which was holy, and we were to show kindness and compassion to all beings, what we called baal chayyim. All animals praise God, as we do, with their songs and their voices. In midwinter, we dedicated a Sabbath to the birds, to offer our gratitude and acknowledge that it is their songs that have taught mankind how to chant and praise the glory of our Creator.

That was why the Almighty had given us prayer, to distinguish man from animals, to leave the beasts inside of us locked away.

Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

Q: How do bunnies stay healthy? A: Egg-xercise!

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark.