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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 find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. 'Legend' means, basically, 'bullshit.'" »Joel Rosenberg
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"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese." »David Riesman
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"The legendary Buddhist flower udumbara is believed to blossom once every three millennia! What about the Flower of Peace? In every ten million years?" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means....[A] machine might be imagined where the assumptions were put in at one end, while the theorems came out at the other, like the legendary Chicago machine where the pigs go in alive and come out transformed into hams and sausages. No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does." »Henri Poincare
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"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." »Albert Camus
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"Man without religion is the creature of circumstances." »Augustus Hare
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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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"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 only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible." »Eric Hoffer
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"The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only." »Thomas Hobbes
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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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"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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"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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"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty." »Edmund Spenser
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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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"What more felicity can fall to creature,
Than to enjoy delight with liberty." »Spenser, Fate of the Butterfly
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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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"Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword." »The Koran
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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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"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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"God made man mortal and to consol this transitory creature He gave him an immortal toy called Art!" »m
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"Man is the only creature on earth that can create his own environment. This is because he is the privileged creation of the Great Creator." »Werner Saunders
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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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"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Old creature with a sore leg (reference to Elizabeth I- he was incorrectly told she limped because of a varicose vein)" »King Henry III of France
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"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks." »Thomas Bailey
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"The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest of human creature that walks." »Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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"Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue)." »Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib, Nahj-ul-Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)
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"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided." »John Locke
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