Animals

We all are worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man

Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the waters are calm

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

Barking dogs seldom bite

Don’t count the chickens before they are hatched

Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

It's the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste