Wild Beasts Quotes

43 quotes by 34 authors

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of… — Mark Twain
A wealth of knowledge is openly accessible in nature. Our ancestors knew this and embraced the natural cures found in the bosoms of the earth.… — Suzy Kassem
...Perses, hear me out on justice, and take what I have to say to heart; cease thinking of violence. For the son of Kronos, Zeus,… — Hesiod
The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings. — Juvenal
Do not press an enemy at bay. Prince Fu Ch'ai said: "Wild beasts, when at bay, fight desperately. How much more is this true of… — Sun Tzu
If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms… — Lucretius
There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say. — Jonathan Swift
Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes… — Pablo Neruda
Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we… — Theodore Roosevelt
What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling… — Marcus Aurelius
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. — Voltaire
Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most… — Hunter S. Thompson
The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without… — Diana Gabaldon
Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be… — George MacDonald
I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfullyâ€¦ — Louisa May Alcott
The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People… — Virginia Woolf
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick… — Thomas Carlyle
The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by… — David Hume
May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs… — Ignatius of Antioch

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