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"Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?" »Ernest Thompson Seton
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"I was the kid next door's imaginary friend." »Emo Phillips
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"Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter." »Oliver Goldsmith
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"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary." »Franklin P. Adams
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"Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage." »Athenus
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »Henry Louis Mencken
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »H. L. Mencken
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." »H.L. Mencken
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"The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist." »Aaron Machado
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"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." »Albert Camus
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"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, Going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me." »Walt Whitman
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"Whenever I need to get away,'' I just get away in my mind. I go to my imaginary spot, where the beach is perfect and the water is perfect and the weather is perfect. The only bad thing there are the flies. They're terrible" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Man without religion is the creature of circumstances." »Augustus Hare
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"Boredom is a finicky creature, never around when you need it, and always popping up when you want it the least." »Lewis Ward
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"Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only." »Thomas Hobbes
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"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible." »Eric Hoffer
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"The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it." »Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"Always be just and honest so that every time you look at the mirror you don’t see an abominable creature on it!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty." »Edmund Spenser
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"What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty." »Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly
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"Noble be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets him apart
From every other creature
On earth." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), from The Divine, 1783
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"Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed." »Tom Clancy
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"Man will always remain an unsuccessful creature till he stops being a mortal being!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword." »The Koran
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"One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one. I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh. Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he asked me." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion." »Unknown
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"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,
Were each of them once a kiddie.
A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
Do I want one? God Forbiddie!" »Ogden Nash
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