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I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
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Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act III, scene 7, line 161.

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Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Bible (NewTestament)

— St Matthew 10:16.

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(The Americans) advanced to within 500 meters from the Holy Mosque (in Najaf). On this occasion, I must thank and praise those in that complex who resist these bloodthirsty wolves.

ahmad jannati

— Friday Sermon at Tehran University: The Americans in Najaf Are Bloodthirsty Wolves August 2004

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Majority rule will only work if you're considering individual rights. You can't have five wolves and one sheep vote on what they want to have for supper

larry flynt

— Carol LLoyd, Flynt's revenge, Salon, 1999-02-23.

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A prince must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Machiavelli

— The Prince.

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

George carlin

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Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

jesus christ

— Matthew 7:15 (KJV)

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Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

john milton

— "To the Lord General Cromwell" (1652)

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It is beyond ridiculous that wolves need to study a human or that they are capable of it.

l. david mech

— On Jodi Picoult's Lone Wolf, as quoted in Tom Myrick. International Wolf Center Nominates Picoult's Lone Wolf for Scat Award. IWC Scat Awards. (March 8, 2012)

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Mr. Ellis is neither a scientist nor an expert on the natural behavior of wolves.

l. david mech

— B.J. King, "Why Are Wolf Scientists Howling At Jodi Picoult?" NPR. (April 19, 2012)

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People travel on straight paths, but wolves travel on devious paths.


— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)

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In my opinion, negotiating with America is like shaking hands with Satan, and dancing with wolves, because the Americans are interested in negotiations for negotiations' sake. ...By negotiating with us, they are trying to intimidate the world of Islam and the Islamic movements, saying: "Even Islamic Iran, which you follow and which serves as your model, eventually had no choice but to get along with us."

hossein shariatmadari

— Editor-in-Chief of Kayhan Iranian Daily: Negotiating with America is Like Shaking Hands with Satan and Dancing with Wolves (May 2007)

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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

Stephen King

— From his book Wolves of the Calla (2003).

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This is a nature-boy movie, a kid's daydream of being an Indian. When Dunbar has become a Sioux named Dances with wolves, he writes in his journal that he knows for the first time who he really is. Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head.

Pauline Kael

— "New Age Daydreams," review of Dances with Wolves (1990-12-17), p. 295

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   Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the colour of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sundayafternoons in damp front farmhouse parlours, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.


— 1954  A Child's Christmas inWales.

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   I've heard the wolves scuffle, and said: So this Is man; sowhat better conclusion is there The day will not follow night, and the heart Of man has a little dignity, but less patience Than a wolf's, and a duller sense that cannot Smell its own mortality.


— 1948  Poems1922-1947,'TheWolves'.

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"Man's inhumanity to man" is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

alexander berkman

— Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912), Ch. 18: "The Solitary"

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The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin , Stalin , and Hitler , who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind.

Eric Hoffer

— "Money" p. 37

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There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder.


— J.W. Curran, The Canadian Wildlife Almanac (1981).

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wolves are harmful to humans in many respects: they attack livestock and dogs, wild ungulates and other useful animals, spread diseases and attack people directly. The little use which may be derived from captured wolves (skin, tasty meat which is fully suitable for food) as well as sporting pleasure of the hunting of wolves, are not to be compared with the damage to human health and economic interests caused by these undoubtedly injurous predators.


— Vladimir Heptner, Mammals of the Soviet Union, Vol. II, Part 1a (1998).

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Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.


— Oxford King James Bible, Matthew 7:15 (1769).

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It is popularly believed that there is no written record of a healthy wolf ever having killed a person in North America. Those making the claim ignore Eskimos and Indians who have been killed and are careful to rule out rabid wolves.... Ernest Thompson Seton believed that wolves attacked and killed people before the coming of guns and poisons, especially during the Winter months when food was scarce, and Native American oral history supports this.


— Barry Lopez,Of Wolves and Men (1978) .

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A fox can fool seven wolves.


— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)

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Two wolves will seldom agree over one bone.


— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)

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Wolf, gnaw at your own sides. This is what is said at the same time when you place a stone under a pot, and it will save your cow from being eaten by wolves.


— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)

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Hyenas are slow in their pace, and altogether inactive; I have often seen a few terriers keep them at bay, and bite them severely by the hind quarters; their jaws, however, are exceedingly strong, and a single bite, without holding on, more than a few seconds, is sufficient to kill a large dog. They stink horribly, make no earths of their own, but lie under rocks, or resort to the earths of wolves, as foxes do to those of badgers, and it is not uncommon to find wolves and hyenas in the same bed of earths.


— Johnson, Daniel (1827), Sketches of Indian field sports, London, R. Jennings

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The wolves have prey'd: and look, the gentle day, Before the wheels of Phœbus, round about, Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act V, scene 3, line 25.

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I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves : be ye therefore wise as serpents , and harmless as doves .


— Jesus, to his disciples, as quoted in Matthew 10:16

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wolves housed in cages which are far too small, are still among the most pitiful of all caged animals.


— Conrad Lorenz, King Solomon's Ring (1952).

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