Wolves Quotes
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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.
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.
(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
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.
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.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
jesus christ— Matthew 7:15 (KJV)
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)
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)
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)
People travel on straight paths, but wolves travel on devious paths.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
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)
It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
Stephen King— From his book Wolves of the Calla (2003).
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
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'.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
james bovard— Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994), p. 333Compare earlier version by Marvin Simkin, "Individual Rights", Los Angeles Times (12 January 1992), "Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote."
When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
Anton Chekhov— Fatherless, Act I, sc. xiv
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
Americans are naturally drawn to big, charismatic, fallen heroes like wolves and bears, but coyotes are relegated to being small, sneaky, cowardly and untrustworthy.
— Frank Vincenti, as quoted in Way, J. G. 2012. Love wolves and hate coyotes? A conundrum for canid enthusiasts. International Wolf 22(4, winter): 8-11
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).
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).
If you look like a sheep, the wolves will be ready.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
Two male wolves will not live in the same den and will not eat the same bone.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
A fox can fool seven wolves.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
— Matthew 7:15 (KJV)
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
A mother gave her children Aesop’s fables to read, in the hope of educating and improving their minds; but they very soon brought the book back, and the eldest, wise beyond his years, delivered himself as follows: "This is no book for us; it’s much too childish and stupid. You can’t make us believe that foxes and wolves and ravens are able to talk; we’ve got beyond stories of that kind!" In these young hopefuls you have the enlightened Rationalists of the future.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, “Similes, Parables and Fables,” Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, § 395
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
