Best 302 quotes in «beast quotes» category

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

There is no beast more cruel than man.

There is a beast in man that should be exercised, not exorcised.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

The violence of sorrow is not at the first to be striven withal; being, like a mighty beast, sooner tamed with following than overthrown by withstanding.

The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

The unicorn is a mythical beast.

The terrible beast, that no one may understand, Came to my side, and put down his head in love.

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below

The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.

The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.

Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast.

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

Time is a beast who has the immense patience to swallow everything.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!

We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

Train like a beauty look like a beast

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think.

We live like caged beasts waiting for the day to let the rage free.

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

What bosom beast not in his country's cause?

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused.

What distinguishes us humans from animals is our conscience. Once our conscience is gone we lose our humanness. Without conscience, humans can be far more dangerous than beasts. Beasts kill for food, humans kill for ideology. Beasts kill just enough to eat. Humans can kill endlessly.

When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

What kind of woman greets the Beast Lord with 'here, kitty, kitty'?

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent

When we ever invited the beast to dinner he didn't come in and swipe the napkins and start taking notes on the tablecloth 'bout how to take over the whole house?

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

You have to starve the Beast. That's one of the most important things about tax cuts. If you leave the money in Washington, it's going to be spent.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

8 April 1891 The obscenity of nostrils and mouths; the ignominious cupidity of smiles and women encountered in the street; the shifty baseness on every side, as of hyenas and wild beasts ready to bite: tradesmen in their shops and strollers on their pavements. How long must I suffer this? I have suffered it before, as a child, when, descending by chance to the servant's quarters, I overheard in astonishment their vile gossip, tearing up my own kind with their lovely teeth. This hostility to the entire race, this muted detestation of lynxes in human form, I must have rediscovered it later while at school. I had a repugnance and horror for all base instincts, but am I not myself instinctively violent and lewd, murderous and sensual? Am I any different, in essence, from the members of the riotous and murderous mob of a hundred years ago, who hurled the town sergeants into the Seine and cried, 'String up the aristos!' just as they shout 'Down with the army!' or 'Death to the Jews!

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

You've got a man-beast, and a ho-beast.

A beast barely able to restrain itself carried a risk to its master.