Creature Quotes

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Men, Rather

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
Mark Twain

Work, God, Tired

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Bruce Lee

Important, Living, Individual

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.
Theodore Roosevelt

Work, End, Hard

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Swami Vivekananda

Power, Greatest, Cannot

I'm very much a creature of habit.
Eminem

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
George Orwell

Give, Enough, Cannot

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
Charles Dickens

Human, Wonderful, Fact

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

Men, Fight, Important

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Alone, Lives, Bread

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx

Religion, Heart, Soul

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

Men, Fight, Important

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust

Knowledge, Alone, Live

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
John Ruskin

Work, Great, Art

A man is a poor creature compared to a woman.
Honore de Balzac

Woman, Poor, Compared

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.
Salman Rushdie

Life, Revenge, Remember

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli

Men, Powerful, Free

God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon

Every creature is a word of God.
Meister Eckhart

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Great, Art

They have most satisfaction in themselves, and consequently the sweetest relish of their creature comforts.
Matthew Henry

Themselves, Sweetest, Comforts

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
John Donne

God, Eyes, Before

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Terry Pratchett

Known, Number, Crowd

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
Ramakrishna

God, May, Become

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
Abigail Adams

Power, Give, Few

What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?
Max Muller

Reality, Fire, Sun

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.
Eric Hoffer

Impossible, Himself, Surpass

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.
Emma Goldman

Sex, Moral, Once

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
David Herbert Lawrence

Human, Soul, Thinks

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