“Boys and girls are only little men and women. And WE are much harder and hardier than they are--" (Peter liked the… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“Indeed, pursuing pleasure, Seneca warns, is like pursuing a wild beast: On being captured, it can turn on us and tear us… — William B. Irvine 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
“Tell me, what's the difference between tracking a wild beast and securing a husband?” — Shari L. Tapscott Copy Share Image
Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“What appears in the former statue of Apollo, however, cannot simply be equated with the Olympian of the same name, who had… — Peter Sloterdijk 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
“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
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
It has got to the point in this country where men believe they are men, just because that is their birthright. If… — William Powell Copy Share Image
“By the heavens!' he exclaimed. 'Anyone who can save the captain's life and tame that wild beast certainly deserves to be a… — Jan Burchett Copy Share Image
From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
“Dim, gradual thinning of the shapeless gloom Shudders to drizzling daybreak that reveals Disconsolate men who stamp their sodden boots And turn… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in… — Virgil Copy Share Image
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“What rending pains were close at hand! Death! and what a death! worse than any other that is to be named! Water,… — Harriet Prescott Spofford Copy Share Image
“Julian recognized that the strength of the orthodox Church rested to a great extent on the imperial discrimination in its favour. According… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“My hair is coming out from under my cap. Red hair of an ogre. A wild beast, the newspaper said. A monster.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
That wild beast which lives in man and does not dare to show itself until the barriers of law and custom have… — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
“Major imperial shows could deploy thousands of pairs of combatants, not to mention all manner of animals and wild beasts-hounds, lions, bears,… — Vincent Carroll 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
Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin 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
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
