Beast Quotes - Page 24

• The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.

  Saint Augustine

  Night, Treasure, Riches

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 523, 1895.

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• A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gentleman, May, Lunatic

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• Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

  George Eliot

  Music, Echoes, Law

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.64

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• Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway.

  George Eliot

  Ocean, Men, Air

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.440, 谷月社

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• In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Solitude, Grows

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• Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Clouds, Centaurs

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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• If you have given up your heart ... you have already lost. A heartless creature is a loveless creature, and a loveless creature is a beast.

  Stephen King

  Love, Heart, Given

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Animal, Giving, Dominion

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, Determination, Views

  "Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason". Book by Andrew Dickson White, p. 59, 1915.

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• I have watched Brock Lesnar for a really long time and I thought I knew how strong he was, I thought I knew how fast he was. Being in the ring with him, he is a completely different animal. He is a beast. They call him the Beast Incarnate and that is real. Whether you are in the Octagon with him trading fists, or in the ring trading German suplexes it is on another level. It was a pleasure and I am glad I got to be in the ring with him and i think I proved to the entire world I can hang with the guy.

  Seth Rollins

  Strong, Real, Thinking

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• If you're interested in matching your mind with the most intelligent kind of beast I have ever encountered, get yourself a Scotty dog. He'll get bored very fast, and it will require all of your personal power and intelligence to keep up with him. You might find a good friend.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, Good Friend, Intelligent

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• Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

  Plutarch

  Wisdom, Justice, Politics

  Plutarch (2000). “The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.629, Modern Library

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• "Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things - beasts, fowl, and fishes. To respond through touch, sight, smell, and sound to all things in nature - both organic and inorganic-to colors, shapes, and textures - to not only look at a blade of grass but to really see a blade of grass. These things, to me, are what life and living are all about. I would call it "Humanism."

  Jacob Lawrence

  Thinking, Color, Smell

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• The beast faith lives on its own dung.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Atheism, Positive Atheism

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• The East is going to be pretty easy for me. The Great Chest of the West becomes the Great Beast of the East.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, West, East

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• Before I became the 'Great Test of the West," I was the 'Beast of the East.'

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, East, Tests

  Shaquille O'Neal (2014). “Shaq Talks Back”, p.277, St. Martin's Press

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• This rose became a bandanna, which became a house, which became infused with all passion, which became a hideaway, which became yes I would like to have dinner, which became hands, which became lands, shores, beaches, natives on the stones, staring and wild beasts in the trees, chasing the hats of lost hunters, and all this deserves a tone.

  Kenneth Koch

  Beach, Passion, Hands

  Kenneth Koch (1982). “Days and nights”, Random House (NY)

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• Compatibility is weird. Love is confusing. Love is one wild beast.

  Charlyne Yi

  Love Is, Confusing, Compatibility

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• Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Men, Talking

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• A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

  Aristotle

  Men, Harm, Badness

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law and without justice. If he finds himself an individual who cannot live in society, or who pretends he has need of only his own resources do not consider him as a member of humanity; he is a savage beast or a god.

  Aristotle

  Men, Animal, Law

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• Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
  [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]

  Ovid

  Peace, Men, Ira

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• Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.

  Juvenal

  Kind, Spots, Spares

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• All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous.

  George Herbert

  Strong, Prey, Treacherous

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.323

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• Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.

  Robert Southey

  Men, Bird, Abuse

  Robert Southey (1831). “Sir Thomas Marc Or Colloquies on the Progress und Prospects of Sceuly, 1”, p.153

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