The best Quotes by Desmond Morris

The best Quotes by Desmond Morris

Desmond John Morris (born 24 January 1928) is an English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter, as well as a popular author in human sociobiology. He is known for his 1967 book The Naked Ape, and for his television programmes such as Zoo Time.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

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Want an animal to stare at you with contempt? Get a cat! Open box of excrement in your house? Cat!

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My cat is really annoyed by me, now that I hang around in her apartment all day.

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When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

Rupert Brooke

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Cats City & Urban

Cats can use their ears to express their feelings. If they flatten them backwards, it indicates fear or caution, and if their ears are perked up and occasionally face forward, that usually means they're happy. Constant swiveling indicates that they are vigilantly assessing their surroundings.

Lyney in Genshin Impact

Cats will outsmart dogs every time.

John Grogan

Time you spend with cats is never wasted.

Cats make great companions! Just ask my master... who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Yuumi, the Magical Cat in League of Legends

Cats come when they feel like it. Not when they're told.

Catwoman in Catwoman

Everything comes to those who wait... except a cat.

Mario Andretti

Cats rule the world.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein

Cats Dogs Men & Women

A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water logged stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?

Marley & Me

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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.

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Humanity Gratitude Animals Dogs

I am NOT telling you to be aggressive! I am telling you to stay in control. Be calm and assertive!

Cesar Millan (Rudelführer, Hundetrainer)

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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

Josh Billings

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Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

Kinky Friedman

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Happiness starts with a wet nose and ends with a tail.

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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.

Charles de Gaulle

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Humanity Animals Dogs

A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog.

John Grogan

A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his.

John Grogan in Marley & Me

Owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

John Grogan in Marley & Me

There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

John Grogan in Marley & Me

"Is he friendly?" Tom says quietly. "I've discovered," Jules says, "that a dog will become fast friends with the people who feed him."

Josh Malerman in Bird Box

You know, son, now that you're grown up, it's time we have a heart to heart talk about the facts of life. First of all, you're a dog. And there's three things dogs are gonna know how to do.
First: a dog's gonna know how to be man's best friend. That comes in two easy positions: the begging position with the big sad, soulful eyes, and the lyin' at the master's feet position also with the big sad, soulful eyes.
Now the second thing that dog has to know is how to bury bones. Why? I don't know. I can never find them, after I bury them. But that's what dogs is supposed to do.
Third, and most important: all dogs gonna know how to chase cats. Which happens to be my specialty.

Spike in Tom and Jerry

The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.

Norman Reedus

A city is a concrete labyrinth in which our mind is lost.

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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

Billie Joe Armstrong

A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

City & Urban Size

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

James Comey

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