“So Geographers in Afric-maps With Savage-Pictures fill their Gaps; And o'er uninhabitable Downs Place Elephants for want of Towns” — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Pity is not natural to man. Children always are cruel. Savages are always cruel. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation. — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit,… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think that show will go down in history... people will scratch their heads and say 'How did this ever get on… — Denise Crosby Copy Share Image
My piano has not yet arrived. How did you send it? By Marseilles or by Perpignan? I dream music but I cannot… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Are you?” “What?” “Venomous?” Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
"Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we're in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subsciously aware of having no… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Man is neither by birth nor disposition a savage, nor of unsocial habits, but only becomes so by indulging in vices contrary… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages" Pt.1, 41” — Rousseau Copy Share Image
The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild. — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages. — Zebulon Pike Copy Share Image
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“(K)ids are savages who haven't learned to lie to themselves yet, and they don't flinch from the truth.” — Brendan McGinley Copy Share Image
Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change. — Nelly Copy Share Image
'Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.' — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image