(153 quotes found)
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”
Confucius
“The truest wild beasts live in the most populous places”
Baltasar Gracian
“Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.”
Chanakya
“Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear”
Zora Neale Hurston
“Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.”
William Shakespeare
“The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars”
Johnny Cash
“They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.”
Bible
“He's a gent from Monday to Friday... then on Saturday, out comes the beast.”
Paul Ince
“What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.”
Chief Seattle
“We have used the Bible as if it were a mere special constable's handbook, an opium dose for keeping beasts of burden patient while they are overloaded.”
Charles Kingsley