Beasts

Famous quotes containing the word beasts:

    Then, that no region of the universe
    Should remain void of life, the floor of heaven
    Was peopled with the stars and godlike forms,
    The seas became the abode of glittering fish.
    Earth took the beasts and mobile air the birds.
    A holier animal was wanting.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    Asceticism is the right way of thinking for those who have to extirpate their sensual drives because they are ravening beasts of prey. But only for those!
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Jesus our brother, strong and good,
    Was humbly born in a stable rude,
    And the friendly beasts around Him stood,
    Jesus our brother, strong and good.
    “I”, said the donkey, shaggy and brown
    —Unknown. The Friendly Beasts (l. 1–5)