I leave you with the best phrases of wolves, a mammal widely admired for its qualities of fierceness, loyalty, intelligence, teamwork, instinct, freedom and intuition.
Some of the authors and artists that you can find below are George RR Martin, Criss Jami, Voltaire, Antón Chejov, Isaiah Berlin, Mary Shelley or Lord Byron among others. You may also be interested in these dog phrases.
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-Be like the wolf: supportive in the pack and strong in solitude.
-A wolf does not turn when the dog barks.
-The wolf always accuses the lamb of muddying the stream. -Elihu Root.
-Sheep spend their whole lives fearing the wolf, but it is the shepherd who eats them.
-If you are thrown among the wolves, you have to act as one. -Nikita Khrushchev.
-Live like a wolf. Wild, free and hungry. -C. Pacific.
-The look of the wolf penetrates to our soul. -Barry Lopez.
-A gentleman is simply a patient wolf. –Lana Turner.
-Throw me to a pack of wolves and I will return being their leader.
-Whoever walks with wolves is taught to howl.
-The wolf is more silent than the barking dog.
-The wolf can fight the bear, but the rabbit always loses. -Robert Jordan.
-There are nights where the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. -George Carlin.
-If you run from the wolf, you may meet a bear. -Lithuanian proverb.
-You can't throw me to the wolves. They come when I call them.
-The wolf never bothers how many sheep are. -Virgilio.
-If they give you the option to be a shepherd or a sheep, be the wolf. -Josh Homme.
-A wolf does not care about the opinions of the sheep.
- Better a wicked canary than a pious wolf. - Anton Chekhov.
-When the shepherds fight, the wolf has his game won. -German proverb.
-Be like the wolf and the lion, have a big heart and the power of leadership.
-The howling wolf is a real danger. -David Attenborough.
-Only a true wolf falls in love with the moon. -JS Ulli.
-If the wolves stopped running, people would stop screaming. -German proverb.
-The freedom for the wolves is death for the lambs. -Isaiah Berlin.
-Fear makes the wolf bigger than it is.
-When one donkey is of many, the wolves eat it. - Juan de Mariana.
-In the deep and calm waters of the mind, the wolf lurks. -FT McKinstry.
-Wolves are the witches of the animal world. -Katherine Rundell.
-It is crazy for a sheep to talk about peace with a wolf. -Thomas Fuller.
-The wolf will always be bad if we only listen to Little Red Riding Hood.
-Old wolf does not fall into a trap.
-Smokers look like friends, and wolves look like dogs. -George Chapman.
-Hunger makes the wolf leave the forest. -German proverb.
-When a wolf doesn't want to do anything, it looks really adorable. -Michelle Paver.
-The wolf may change its appearance, but never its intentions. -Proverb.
-Wolves never hunt alone, but in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth. -John Fowles.
-Make yourself a sheep and the wolf will eat you. -German proverb.
-If you can't face the wolves, don't go into the forest. -Alexandra Udinov.
-The wolf dressed in sheep's clothing and the herd allowed the deception. - Mary Shelley.
-When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack. -Leon Trotsky.
-The wolf that one listens to is worse than the ogre that one fears. -JRR Tolkien.
-An audience can be like a pack of wolves.
-I'm not a wolf in sheep's clothing. I am a wolf dressed as a wolf. -Ricky Gervais.
-Where there are sheep, wolves are never too far away. -Plauto.
-The wolf attacks with its fangs; the bull with its horns. -Horacio.
-Just as wolves love lambs, lovers also love their loves. -Plato.
-You can throw me to the wolves. I belong with them either way.
-Learn to be like the wolf: aggressive but also patient, as needed.
-A man can befriend a wolf, but no man will be able to tame him in reality. -George RR Martin.
-Wolves are very skilled. All they need is for people not to shoot them. -Bob Ferris.
"The wolf that remains in its lair," said Herger, "never gets food, and neither does the man who sleeps. - Michael Crichton.
-That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf, and there were some real wolves to the east, teaching the wind lessons. -George RR Martin.
-Like the howling wolf, if you keep seeking compassion as a justification for your actions, one day you will be left alone when you really need help. -Criss Jami.
-In life there are only two types of people: wolves and lambs. -Patricia Cornwell.
- Force is, he said, that men have ravaged nature something, because wolves were not born, and they have become wolves. -Voltaire.
-The human race, although it is a sheep in its credulity, is a wolf for conformity. -Carl Clinton Van Doren.
-Maybe the wolf is in love with the moon, that's why he cries every time he sees it, because it is a love that he can never have.
-The most difficult walk is the one you walk alone, but it is on this walk that you become the strongest.
-I'm a wolf. I will quietly endure, silently I will suffer, patiently wait, because I am a warrior and I will survive.
-I'm fierce. I'm loyal. There is no one stronger. I have the heart of a lion and the moon of soul. I am the leader of my pack. I am the alpha.
-Some people are not who they say they are, be careful with your friends; of wolves in sheep's clothing.
-Even the wolf knows how to be educated when the bestial humans have no idea what education is. -Munia Khan.
-The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they had lost, to focus instead on what is to come. -Jodi Picoult.
-Democracy must be more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -James Bovard.
- "Never do wolves eat each other," says the proverb, and however trivial it is, it is accurate. - Marquis de Sade
-I'm just a lone wolf looking for its prey, but I am clear that when I find it, my intentions will be far from doing something bad with it.
-Wolves fail to hide their integrity, just as men fail to hide their brutality. -Munia Khan.
-Pacifists are like sheep who believe that wolves are vegetarians. -Yves Montand.
-Fate whispers to the wolf: "you cannot bear the storm" and the wolf whispers back: "I am the storm."
-Wolves are not made to hunt alone. Maybe not. But many do. -Robin Hobb.
-The wolves are thrown on the wounded deer. It is the nature of the beast. -Barbara Delinski.
-The same wolf has moments of weakness, in which he takes the side of the lamb and thinks: I hope it runs away. - Adolfo Bioy Casares.
-Don't tame the wolf inside you just because you haven't met someone with the courage to know how to be with you. -Belle Estreller.
-If you expect the world to be fair to you because you are fair. You are fooling yourself. It's like hoping the lion won't eat you because you didn't eat it.
-I'm there, waiting and watching from the shadows. But when you need me, I'll step out of the shadows and protect what's mine.
-Everyone needs their memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance away from your door. -Saul Bellow.
-A wolf will never lose sleep worrying about the feelings of the sheep. But no one has ever told sheep that they outnumber wolves. -Bray Wyatt.
-We humans fear the beast that lives in the wolf because we do not understand the beast that lives within us. -Gerald Hausman.
-The wolf is the archetype of the predator, the beast of waste and desolation -Theodore Roosevelt.
-Although the wolf usually works alone, the wolf is the most united animal. You will not find a wolf that escapes only when his companion is injured.
-Growing up, they taught me that a man must defend his family. When a wolf tries to enter, you must get in the door. -BB King.
-No wolf falters before biting, nor does the falcon hesitate before launching. Consequently, they hit the mark. -Shannon Hale.
-Love will find its way through the paths where wolves fear to hunt. -Lord Byron.
-The careless shepherd can become an excellent dinner for the wolf. -Earl Derr Biggers.
-You have to be a fox to know the traps, and a lion to make the wolves flee. -Nicolas Machiavelli.
-It is much better to walk like a lone wolf in the right direction, than to follow the pack in the wrong direction.
-She slept among the wolves without fear, as the wolves knew that there was a lion among them. -RM Drake.
The wolf's clear, intelligent eyes met mine. The wolf is kind-hearted. He's not noble, he's not cowardly, he just doesn't fight. -Lois Crisler.
-It is useless for the sheep to promote vegetarianism if the wolf maintains a different opinion. -William Raplh Inge.
-Wolves aren't supposed to do anything other than be defenders. They are not supposed to be bullies. -Joe Carnahan.
-The wolf eats sheep from time to time; thousands are eaten by men. An avowed enemy may be a curse, but a false friend is worse. -John Gay.
-It is a bad thing to have a wolf by the ears, because you do not know how to release it or how to continue holding it. - Terence.
-The strength of the pack rests with the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is to go in a pack. -Rudyard Kipling.
-In real life, wolves will do everything possible to avoid contact with the human race. -Liam Neeson.
-Look who you eat and drink with before eating and drinking; because food without a friend is the food of lions and wolves. - Epicurus.
-God our Lord has created all animals, and chose the wolf to be his dog. -Jaboc Grimm.
-A wolf is no less a wolf because he is dressed as a sheep, just as the devil is no less a devil because he dresses as an angel. -Lecrae.
-The tiger and the lion may be more powerful, but the wolf is never seen performing in circuses.
-The wolves stay together howling softly but loudly, singing songs as a family. -Sue Thoele.
-The wolf is the great teacher. The wolf is the wise man, who after many winters on the sacred path and seeking wisdom, returns to share his knowledge with the pack. -Robert Ghost Wolf.
-It is my nature to be kind, gentle and loving. But if it's about protecting my family, my friends, or my heart, don't play with me. I am also the most powerful and ruthless creature, like a wolf.
-The wolves ate even the great hunters, since there was no honor or code among predators, and their guts pop out in the same way when opening their stomachs on a cold night. -Warren Elllis.
-Wolves rarely hunt. You are vulnerable if you are alone or hurt. But for lone wolves, stand up high, show you're not hurt, face him, be authoritative, and look him in the eye. -Bear Grylls.
-In politics you must always keep walking with the pack. The moment they feel you falter and they feel you are hurt, they will go against you like wolves. -RA Butler.
-One day I woke up thinking about wolves and I realized that packs work like families. Everyone has their role, and if you fulfill it, the pack succeeds, and if not, the pack falls apart. -Jodi Picoult.
-The wolves hunt sheep in the dead of night, but the stain of blood prevails on the stones of the valley until dawn comes and the sun reveals the crime to all. -Khalil Gibran.
-There are two wolves in each of us. A black wolf and a white wolf. The white wolf grows up with love and faith. The black wolf grows up with fear and hatred. You have to know which one to feed and when. -Godfrey, Knightfall.
-Wolves and women are alike in nature: inquisitive, resistant, strong. They are very intuitive. However, they are harassed, and falsely accused of being greedy and excessively aggressive. -Clarissola Pinkola Estes.