The Queen writes her own message to the Commonwealth each year.
The Queen’s Christmas Day Speech 2011
December 25, 2011 by ingoodfaith
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- Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. ~ Alfred A. Montapert
- The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. ~ Mahatma Ghandi
- There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat. ~ Wesley Bates
- There is no more intrepid explorer than a kitten. ~ Jules Champfleury
- All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. ~ Samuel Butler
- Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much! ~ Thornton Wilder
- Today more than ever before life must be characterized by a sense of Universal Responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. ~ Dalai Lama
- The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position. ~ Christine Stevens
- My most treasured possessions are not things, they are only things; my friends, family and animals are what counts. ~ Olivia Newton John
- If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~ James Herriot
- An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. ~ Martin Buber
- The smallest feline is a masterpiece. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci
- I welcome all creatures of the world with grace. ~ Hildegard von Bingen
- I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ~ Abraham Lincoln
- The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man. ~ Charles Darwin
- A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. ~ Agnes Repplier
- They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' ~ Samuel Butler
- All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. ~ George Orwell, Animal Farm
- My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. ~ Edith Wharton
- Properly trained, a man can be dog's best friend. ~ Corey Ford
- I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
- Every creature is a word of God. ~ Meister Eckhart
- The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog~ ~ Ambrose Bierce
- Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic monuments, there will always be the animal refugee living a precarious life on the edge of extermination, dependent for existence on the charity of a few human beings. ~ Gerald Durrell
- Every bird speaks to me, every tree nods gently to me. ~ John Audubon
- Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later... ~ Mary Bly
- Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. ~ Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
- If people were superior to animals, they'd take better care of the world. ~ A A Milne
- Animals have these advantages over man: They have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills. ~ Voltaire
- I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. ~ Walt Whitman
- We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. ~ Tennessee Williams
- Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace. ~ Albert Schweitzer
- When dogs leap onto your bed, it's because they adore being with you. When cats leap onto your bed, it's because they adore your bed. ~ Alisha Everett
- You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!' ~ Dave Barry
- I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten or twelve years, what would it be if they were to live double that time? ~ Sir Walter Scott
- Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, filling an emptiness we don't even know we have. ~ Thom Jones
- A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ~ Josh Billings
- I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. ~ Jean Cocteau
- Before a cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream. ~ T. S. Eliot
- You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. ~ Harry S Truman
- The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. ~ Jeanne-Marie Roland
- The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- Life is a zoo in a jungle. ~ Peter De Vries
- Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. ~ Jeff Valdez
- A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. ~ Robert Benchley
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. ~ Saint Francis of Assisi
- Wisdom usually does not fall from high places. The mighty and the splendid have taught me little. I have learned more from my dog than from all the great books I have read. The wisdom of my dog is the product of his inability to conceal his wants. When he yearns to be loved, there is no pouting in the corner. There are no games entitled "Guess what is the matter with me." He puts his head on my lap, wags his tail and looks up at me with kind eyes, waiting to be petted. No professor or sage ever told me I might live a more successful life if I simply asked for love when I needed it. ~ Gerry Spence
- Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea. ~ Robert A. Heinlein
- Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. ~ Sigmund Freud
- There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. ~ Ben Williams
- Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. ~ Mark Twain
- Odd things animals. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down to you. Only a pig looks at you as an equal. ~ Winston Churchill
- Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end. ~ Charles Baudelaire
- There are no ordinary cats. ~ Colette
- Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ~ Paul Gray
- It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? ~ Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna
- I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine. ~ Psalm 50
- There is not an animal on earth, nor a bird that flies on its wings - but they are communities like you. ~ Qu'ran 6: 38
- All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful: The Lord God made them all. ~ Cecil Alexander
- I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. ~ Henry David Thoreau
- Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. ~ W.C. Fields
- There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. ~ Shakespeare
- Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. ~ William Penn
- Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. ~ Standing Bear
- Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. ~ Osho
- I love not man the less, but Nature more. ~ Lord Byron
- That best portion of a man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. ~ William Wordsworth
- Joy all creatures drink at nature's breast... ~ Friedrich von Schiller, Ode to Joy
- If you want a kitten, start out by asking for a pony. ~ Anon
- A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable unimplicated sun. ~ Llewelyn Powys
- Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~ John Muir
- Kittens can happen to anyone. ~ Paul Gallico
- The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be. ~ Ben Jonson
- I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. ~ Marie Corelli
- There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer
- To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. ~ Isaac Asimov
- Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. ~ Harriet tubman
- What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? ~ E.M. Forster
- Pets have more love and compassion in them than most humans. ~ Robert Wagner
- On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. ~ Peter Steiner, New Yorker cartoon
- Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ~ George Eliot
- To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common-this is my symphony. ~ William Henry Channing
- We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa
- Now ye may suppose that this is foolishness in me; but behold I say unto you, that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass; and small means in many instances doth confound the wise. ~ Alma the Younger
- You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things, to compete. You can be just an ordinary person, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. The intense effort, the giving of everything you've got, is a very pleasant side effect. ~ Sir Edmond Hillary
- All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. ~ Chief Seattle
- For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love. ~ Carl Sagan
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