Beast Quotes

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha

Mind, Evil, Friend

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle

God, Solitude, Either

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert Camus

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle

God, Society, Live

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tongue, Forest, Framed

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.
Martin Luther

God, Goes, Choose

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
Voltaire

Public, Either, Chain

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
George Washington Carver

Life, Flower, Wanted

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.
Margaret Cavendish

Nature, Rude, Cruel

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon

God, Solitude, Either

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

Life, Same, Spirit

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Courage, Conscience, Wild

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
Hedy Lamarr

Girl, Pretty, Divorce

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
George MacDonald

Less, Knows, Nearer

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
David Herbert Lawrence

Flower, Alive, Bird

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.
Brad Pitt

Success, Away, Wrong

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
Baltasar Gracian

God, Alone, Live

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

God, Law, Reason

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston

Fear, Anger, Off

Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Power, Art

The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.
Hugh Jackman

Beauty, Two, Show

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Jean de La Fontaine

Before, Skin, Bear

Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Pierre Trudeau

Friendly, Living, Matter

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.
Junior Seau

Him, Put, Hockey

Los Angeles is such a town of show business, and I'm a terrible celebrity. I find it difficult - it's the beast that must be fed. There's this big wheel of pictures and articles that goes around, and you get pinned on it.
Julia Roberts

Business, Find, Big

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Thomas Hardy

Words, Terrible, Truly

I fear no man, no beast or evil, brother.
Hulk Hogan

Fear, Evil, Brother

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson

Children, Others, Child

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer

Selfish, Law, Wild

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