Beast Quotes - Page 25

• Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Tree, Lightning

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.37

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• Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

  William Butler Yeats

  Sleep, Twenties, Lasts

  "The Second Coming" l. 18 (1921)

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• Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield;
  Learn from the beasts the physic of the field;
  The arts of building from the bee receive;
  Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave.

  Alexander Pope

  Inspirational, Art, Yield

  Alexander Pope (1763). “An essay on man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and improved by the author. Together with his MS. additions and variations as in the last edition of his works. With the notes of William, Lord Bishop of Gloucester”, p.70

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• From all wild beasts, a child is the most difficult to handle.

  Plato

  Children, Parenting, Difficult

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• I've never believed in the end of times. We are mankind. Our footprints are on the moon. When the last trumpet sounds and the beast rises from the pit - we will kill it.

  Travis Beacham

  Life, Moon, Pits

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• When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

  Epictetus

  Anger, Animal, Levels

  Epictetus (1926). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Chess, Strategy, Monk

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• I'm finally able to tell you... that I will be playing Belle in Disney's new live-action Beauty and the Beast! It was such a big part of my growing up, it almost feels surreal that I'll get to dance to 'Be Our Guest' and sing 'Something There'. My six year old self is on the ceiling - heart bursting. Time to start some singing lessons. I can't wait for you to see it.

  Emma Watson

  Growing Up, Heart, Self

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Jan 26, 2015

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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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• Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

  John Milton

  Men, Rose, Bird

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.698-705.

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• What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.

  Erica Jong

  Eye, Men, Eight

  Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Men, Three, Chiefs

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• However and wherever war begins, it persists, it spreads, it propagates itself through time and across space with the terrifying tenacity of a beast attached to the neck of living prey. This is not an idly chosen figure of speech. War spreads and perpetuates itself through a dynamic that often seems independent of human will. It has, as we like to say of things we do not fully understand, 'a life of its own.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  War, Independent, Space

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• Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
  To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
  Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing,
  Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
  But Man alone has skill and power to send
  The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
  'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
  Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

  George Crabbe

  Spring, Heart, Men

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.60

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• Beasts feed. Man eats. Only the man of intellect knows how to eat.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Men, Cooking

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