Beast
Any living creature; an animal; -- including man, insects, etc.
Any four-footed animal, that may be used for labor, food, or sport; as, a beast of burden.
As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.
Fig.: A coarse, brutal, filthy, or degraded fellow.
A game at cards similar to loo.
A penalty at beast, omber, etc. Hence: To be beasted, to be beaten at beast, omber, etc.
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Beast Quotations
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Buddha
If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.
Aristotle
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle
The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.
Voltaire
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert Camus
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
Martin Luther
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer
I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
George Washington Carver
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston
Beast Translations
beast in Afrikaans is dier
beast in Danish is dyr
beast in Dutch is dier, beest
beast in German is Bestie, Biest, Tier, Tier
beast in Latin is bestia
beast in Norwegian is udyr
beast in Portuguese is besta
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