The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Imagine your anger to be a kind of wild beast, because it has ferocious teeth and claws, and if you don't tame… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“Much of human behavior can be explained by watching the wild beasts around us. They are constantly teaching us things about ourselves… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
A dreadful thing is the love of money! It disables both eyes and ears, and makes men worse to deal with than… — John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“Wild beasts run away from dangers when they see them. Once they have escaped, they are free of anxiety. But we are… — Donald J. Robertson Copy Share Image
Do not press an enemy at bay. Prince Fu Ch'ai said: "Wild beasts, when at bay, fight desperately. How much more is… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Speaking of the murder of the younger Hanan, and other eminent nobles and hierarchs, Josephus says, "I cannot but think that it… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“Try to remember some details. For the world is filled with people who were torn from their sleep with no one to… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
I am writing to all the Churches and I enjoin all, that I am dying willingly for God's sake, if only you… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Maybe the greatest anger and frustration come not from unemployment or poverty or the lack of a future but from the feeling… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
This is the swamp as I see it, but what I can’t capture on canvas is you as I see you. No… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“If anyone attempted to rule the world by the gospel and to abolish all temporal law and sword on the plea that… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent,… — Robert Lewis Dabney Copy Share Image
“The Russians opened his mouth and with a pair of pliers the Germans used for other purposes they seized his tongue and… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Surely it is obvious enough, if one looks at the whole world, that it is becoming daily better cultivated and more fully… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
“In the cage is the lion. She paces with her memories. Her body is a record of her past. As she moves… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“Margery," I blurted out in a passion of frustration. "I don't know what to make of you!" Nor I you, Mary. Frankly,… — Laurie R. King Copy Share Image
“As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“At the end of the forest the guardian angel pointed to the village and said: ‘There you will find your mother. She… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Save for thee and thy lessons, man in society would everywhere sink into a sad compound of the fiend and the wild… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
I honestly believe that the doctrine of hell was born in the glittering eyes of snakes that run in frightful coils watching… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“No, I did not think of him. When a man is hunted like a wild beast he forgets there is a God,… — Harriet Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Whoseoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. Certain it is that the light that a man… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones,… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
“It is a great evil to look upon mankind with too clear vision. You seem to be living among wild beasts, and… — William Beckford Copy Share Image
“Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
“But the more shrewdly and earnestly we study the histories of men, the less ready shall we be to make use of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son… — Hesiod Copy Share Image
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem… — Fernando de Rojas Copy Share Image
Now I begin to be a disciple. I care for nothing, of visible or invisible things, so that I may but win… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
“She wanted to flee this, to return to her island, to roar her fire, to drown in the sea, or to be… — Daniel Arenson Copy Share Image
“8 And the husbands and fathers of those women and children they have slain; and they feed the women upon the aflesh… — Joseph Smith Jr Copy Share Image
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image