Brute Quotes

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent. - Lennox Lewis

Arrogance - The best leaders inspire by example. When that's not an option, brute intimidation works pretty well, too. - Larry Kersten

Apartment vacancy has dropped from 13 percent to 8 percent over the last two years. It should continue to drop due to the limited new supply reaching the market, combined with accelerating job growth. - Cary Bruteig

Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them. - Henry David Thoreau

And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel, And loudest shouts when lowest lie Exalted worth and station high. - Sir Walter Scott

And overhanging all our difficulties is the simple, brute fact that our state's public finances are in ruin. We have outspent our income year after year. - Mitch Daniels

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ''facts.'' They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no ''facts'' at this table. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. - Thomas Hobbes

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. - Margaret Cavendish

[Of a husband] Feed the brute. - George Du Maurier