“As savage as a bear with a sore head.”
Captain Frederick Marryat
“We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.”
Mark Twain
“Breed not a savage dog, nor permit a loose stairway”
The Talmud
“Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.”
Stephen King
“The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage”
Plato
“It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or of the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the will and intent of God exactly and completely.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns”
Jonathan Swift
