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.
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
jesus christ— Matthew 7:15 (KJV)
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.
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
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew 7:15.
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)
Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves. (Matthew; bible quote). (Strauss, 1998 p. 170)
— "An innocent demeanor may hide much guilt."
— Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 127.
Are ye, two vultures sick for battle, Two scorpions under one wet stone, Two bloodless wolves whose dry throats rattle, Two crows perched on the murrained cattle, Two vipers tangled into one.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819, st. 4 (Published 1832).
When wolves kill sheep, the dogs grow fat.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
Once upon a time there lived boyers (nobles, land owners) who had to howl like wolves. There were periods when even the boyers had bad times.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
A peasant may have modest clothes but a sharp mind. He still has his brain safe from wolves.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
If you are afraid of wolves, don't go into the forest.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
We wish our calf could butt wolves.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
So the war between humans and vampires finally ends here... [Alucard: .......] What need for the shepherd when the wolves are all gone? My time on this world has come to an end.
— Who: Richter Belmont
— Notes: Character dies after fighting Alucard. His death most likely is not canon, though; he survives in the game's "true" ending.
In the early Vedic tradition , the death god Yama kept two dogs, Syama the Black and Sabala the Spotted, to bring and hold souls in the Purgatory-like afterlife called Naraka. Even the Norse god Odin kept a pair of wolves, Geri and Freki.
— Nathan Robert Brown, in The Mythology of Supernatural: The Signs and Symbols Behind the Popular TV Show, Penguin, 2 August 2011, p.62
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity .
— Carl Clinton Van Doren in: Connie Robertson Book of Humorous Quotations, Wordsworth Editions, 1998, p.54
By robbing Peter he paid Paul, he kept the moon from the wolves, and was ready to catch larks if ever the heavens should fall.
— François Rabelais, Works, Book I, Chapter XI. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Westminster Abbey was called St. Peter's! St. Paul's funds were low and sufficient was taken from St. Peter's to settle the account. Expression found in Collier's Reprint of Thomas Nash, Have with you to Saffron-Walden, p. 9.
Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.
— Inauguration homily, April 24, 2005
wolves are not killed because they are gray, but because they eat sheep.
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007)
