The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

He who hath many friends hath none.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.

Some animals utter a loud cry. Some are silent, and others have a voice, which in some cases may be expressed by a word; in others, it cannot. There are also noisy animals and silent animals, musical and unmusical kinds, but they are mostly noisy about the breeding season.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

We are so very ‚umble.

We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon’s unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I bear a charmed life.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

People say maybe we have a soul and chimpanzees don’t. I feel that it’s quite possible that if we have souls, chimpanzees have souls as well.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

I intend, before the endgame looms, to die sitting in a chair in my own garden with a glass of brandy in my hand and Thomas Tallis on the iPod. Oh, and since this is England, I had better add, ‚If wet, in the library.‘ Who could say that this is bad?

Lost time is never found again.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

It must be the Brit in me, because I like animals.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Language is wine upon the lips.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

A right delayed is a right denied.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

What is past is prologue.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.