Enough's as good as a feast
To one that's not a beast. [ Proverb ]

The gravest fish is an oyster,
The gravest bird's an owl,
The gravest beast's an ass,
And the gravest man's a fool. [ Proverb ]

Age and wedlock tame man and beast. [ Proverb ]

A mad beast must have a sober driver. [ Proverb ]

An eyesore; a bugbear (a black beast). [ French ]

A beast that wants discourse of reason. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

A merciful man is merciful to his beast. [ Bible ]

The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

What is man,
If his chief good, and market of his time,
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no man. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet ]

Music's force can tame the furious beast;
Can make the wolf or foaming boar restrain
His rage; the lion drop his crested mane
Attentive to the song. [ Prior ]

Man is not the prince of creatures,
But in reason; fail that, he is worse
Than horse or dog, or beast of wilderness. [ Field ]

The drunkard forfeits man and doth divest
All wordly right, save what he hath by beast. [ Herbert ]

The beast that goes always never wants blows. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]

A good beast will get himself a heat with eating. [ Proverb ]

The man that once did sell the lion's skin
While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. [ William Shakespeare ]

An ass is the gravest beast, an owl the gravest bird. [ Proverb ]

Passion makes a man a beast, but wine makes him worse. [ Proverb ]

Neither marry nor buy an old beast; the reason is plain. [ Proverb ]

It is not the beast, but the mind, that is the sacrifice. [ Proverb ]

He a beast doth die that hath done no good to his country. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. [ Emerson ]

Drunkenness turns a man out of himself, and leaves a beast in his room. [ Proverb ]

To be without passion is worse than a beast; to be without reason is to be less than a man. [ A. Warwick ]

If the tongue had not been formed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden. [ La Harpe ]

Woman among savages is a beast of burden; in Asia, she is a piece of furniture; in Europe, she is a spoiled child. [ Senac de Meilhan ]

Whosoever in the frame of his nature and affections is unfit for friendship, he taketh it of the beast, and not from humanity. [ Bacon ]

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast [ Coleridge ]

One man affirms that he has rode post a hundred miles in six hours: probably it is a lie; but supposing it to be true, what then? Why, he is a very good post-boy; that is all. Another asserts, and probably not without oaths, that he has drunk six or eight bottles of wine at a sitting; out of charity I will believe him a liar; for, if I do not, I must think him a beast. [ Chesterfield ]