Animals
- 800 lb gorilla
- Albatross (metaphor)
- Belling the cat
- Blind men and an elephant
- Boiling frog
- Butterfly effect
- Camel's nose
- Chicken or the egg
- Dead cat bounce
- Duck trick
- Elephant in the house
- Beating a dead horse
- Four Asian Tigers
- His Eye Is on the Sparrow
- Jumping the gun
- Mama grizzly
- Monkey see, monkey do
- Ostrich effect
- Reverse ferret
- Seeing pink elephants
- The Sheep and the Goats
- Snake venom
- Spherical cow
- Turkeys voting for Christmas
- Turtles all the way down
- White elephant
- Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
- You have two cows
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Famous quotes containing the word animals:
“For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves. Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)