Men practice war; beasts do not. [ Seneca ]

Of all tame beasts I hate a slut. [ Proverb ]

The rising winds
And falling springs,
Birds, beasts, all things
Adore him in their kinds.
Thus all is hurled
In sacred hymns and order, the great chime
And symphony of nature. [ Henry Vaughan ]

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. [ William Shakespeare ]

All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field. [ Pope ]

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing.
Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
But Man alone has skill and power to send
The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
Ages remote, and nations yet to rise. [ Crabbe ]

Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's and not the beasts': God is, they are;
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. [ Browning ]

Now began
Night with her sullen wing to double-shade
The desert; fowls in their clay nests were couched.
And now wild beasts came forth, the woods to roam. [ Milton ]

Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure. [ Cleanthes ]

Drunkenness makes men fools; some beasts, some devils. [ Proverb ]

Apes are never more beasts, than when they wear men's clothes. [ Proverb ]

Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer. [ Ben Jonson ]

If you be false to both beasts and birds, you must with the bat, fly only by night. [ Proverb ]

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye. [ Emerson ]

There is a greater distance between some men and others, than between some men and the beasts. [ Montaigne ]

Great towns are but a large sort of prison to the soul, like cages to birds or pounds to beasts. [ Charron ]

There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. [ Bovee ]

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts, in this lower world. [ Dr. Watts ]

Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature. [ Cicero ]

Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provisions of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. [ Swift ]

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil. [ St. Augustine ]

The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man! [ Quarles ]

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune; such is the extensiveness thereof, that it stoopeth so low as brute beasts, yet mounteth as high as angels; horses will do more for a whistle than for a whip, and by hearing their bells, jingle away their weariness. [ T. Fuller ]

In the use of the tongue God hath distinguished us from beasts, and by the well or ill using it we are distinguished from one another; and therefore, though silence be innocent as death, harmless as a rose's breath to a distant passenger, yet it is rather the state of death than life. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts, - the ifirst and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind, - just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference. [ Coleridge ]