Quadruped quotes:

Send

Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased. -- Charles Dickens
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits. -- Charles Darwin
You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human. -- Donald Johanson
This is where the whole ape-descended thing reveals its worth, I thought madly. Sucks to be you, quadruped. Opposable thumbs - don't leave home without them. -- Ben Aaronovitch
We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World. -- Charles Darwin
Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped. -- Frances Wright
The "hairy quadruped furnished with a tail and, pointed ears, probably arboreal in his habits," this good fellow carried hidden in his nature, apparently, something destined to develop into a necessity for humane letters. -- Matthew Arnold

Send