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Animals

«Even the woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job he starts»
«For me, one of the pleasures of cats' company is their devotion to bodily comfort»
«Every dog is a lion at home.»
Author: H. G. Bohn | About: Animals | Keywords: at home, lion
«Every dog must have his day.»
Author: Jonathan Swift (Author, Satirist) | About: Animals | Keywords: dog days
«Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries , and you will have a fine pig and a bad child»
Author: Danish Proverb | About: Animals, Children | Keywords: grunt, grunted, grunting, grunts
«Even a wolf will not stay - Where sounds no bleat to offer hope of prey»
Author: Greek proverb | About: Animals, Hope | Keywords: bleat, bleating, prey, preyed, preying, preys, sounds, wolf
«Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.»
Author: Thomas Fuller (Clergyman, Writer) | About: Animals, Horses | Keywords: heaviest, pack
«Don't cast your pearls before swine»
Author: Proverb | About: Animals | Keywords: pearls, Pearls Before Swine, swine
«He's a hard dog to keep on the porch»
Author: Proverb | About: Animals | Keywords: porch
«From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.»

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