Last Updated on September 6, 2024
Just like their more domesticated cousins, wolves are canines. They have the same built, albeit bigger, stronger, faster.
Wolves are wild by nature. Thus, one can’t easily get a pup in the forest and expect it to grow up like a dog. It will keep its untamed tendencies, like its aggressiveness and aloofness. They’re best kept by themselves in the wild, where they can hunt, play, and be with other wolves.
That has not kept man from its curiosity towards these mysterious creatures though.
Man and Wolf
There’s a theory that we didn’t domesticate canines – rather, it’s the opposite. A good number of experts suggest that wolves started following hunters when they found out you can get free food and shelter. Perhaps they got comfortable and decided to stick with us for good.
On the other hand, there are those who say that someone must have taken wolf pups and domesticated them, to be used mainly for hunting. That would make sense, considering there are dog breeds that are used for such purposes today. Great examples would be hounds, Labradors, dachshunds, and even beagles.
What Wolves Symbolize
Depending on your culture and location, wolves can take on different meanings and symbolisms. In Norse mythology for instance, the wolf can be both chaotic and destructive, while being wise and protective.
In Hindu mythology, wolves were used by Krishna to persuade the people of Vraja to make the journey into V?nd?vana. Meanwhile, according to Baltic legends, the Lithuanian goddess Medeina was often depicted as a she-wolf: single, beautiful, and refused the idea of marriage. And in Native American culture, the wolf was a symbol of loyalty, courage, and strength.
If you can relate to the wolves and what they represent, then you will like these quotes and sayings on wolves.
Strong Wolf Quotes and Sayings
1. “The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.” –Theodore Roosevelt
2. “The lion may be more powerful but the wolf does not perform in the circus.” – Anonymous
3. “The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.” – J R R Tolkien
4. “As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.” – Plato
5. “The wolf may fight the bear but the rabbit always looses.” – Robert Jordan
6. “Some people aren’t who they say they are, be cautious of the company you keep, wolf in sheep’s clothing.” – Unknown
7. “It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.” – Virgil
8. “A wolf is no less a wolf because he’s dressed in sheepskin and the devil is no less the devil because he’s dressed as an angel.” – Lecrae
9. “I am not a wolf in sheep’s clothing, I’m a wolf in wolf’s clothing.” – Ricky Gervais
10. “The black wolf’s curse awakes every time that a full moon points in the middle of the sky.” – Pet Torres
11. “The gaze of the wolf reaches into our soul.” – Barry Lopez
12. “Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.” – Barbara Delinsky
13. “Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood.” – German Proverb
14. “We both fell asleep wrapped up together with the wolves still lullaby-ing us in the background.” – April Genevieve Tucholke
15. “Crying wolf is a real danger.” – David Attenborough
16. “The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
17. “The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.” – Jacob Grimm
18. “The wolf’s clear, intelligent eyes brushed mine. The wolf is gentle-hearted. Not noble, not cowardly, just non-fighting.” – Lois Crisler
19. “If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.” – Nikita Khrushchev
20. “The wolf will never lose sleep, worrying about the feelings of sheep. But no-one ever told the sheep, that they outnumber the wolves.” – Bray Wyatt
21. “Wolves fail to hide their integrity just like the way men fail to hide their own animality.” – Munia Khan
22. “If you run from a wolf, you may run into a bear.” – Lithuanian
23. “Throw me to the wolves & I’ll return leading the pack” ? Unknown
24. “They say the wolf bestows its happy spirit to help people. Women who obtain this spirit become skilled in creative endeavors and experience a strengthening of the senses. I would like to think there is some truth to this in my own life.” – Judi Rideout
25. “When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game.” – German proverb
26. “The wolves in the uniform with the license to do that.” – Ehsan Sehgal
27. “It is madness for a sheep to talk of peace with a wolf.” – French proverb
28. “Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.” – Angela Carter
29. “A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.” – George R.R. Martin
30. “She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them.” ? R.M. Drake
31. “If the wolf would cease his running, the people would cease their shouting.” – German proverb
32. “Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.” – Earl Derr Biggers
33. “When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack.” – Leon Trotsky
34. “The Canis Lupus, both wolf and man, were meant to be a family with one another. We gain strength through our bond with each other.” – Quinn Loftis
35. “If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.” – Nikita Khrushchev
36. “Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.” – Saul Bellow
37. “Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.” – B. B. King
38. “Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.” ? Criss Jami
39. “The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they’d lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.” – Jodi Picoult
40. “Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.” ? Nikita Gill
41. “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” – James Bovard
42. “When a wolf doesn’t want to do something, they look really cute.” – Michelle Paver
43. “The wolf may fight the bear, but the rabbit always loses.” – Robert Jordan
44. “Man is to man either a god or a wolf.” – Desiderius Erasmus
45. “You know, I’m cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn’t. I wish I was raised by wolves.” – Carson Daly
46. “A wolf eats sheep but now and then; Ten thousand are devour’d by men. An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretend friend is worse.” – John Gay
47. “I guess I’m pretty much of a lone wolf. I don’t say I don’t like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.” – Bela Lugosi
48. “The wolves’ prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.” – Khalil Gibran
49. “We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.” –Gerald Hausman
50. “Make yourself a sheep and the wolf will eat you.” –German Proverb
51. “Where there are sheep, the wolves are never very far away.” – Plautus
52. “I think I’m still a lone wolf, internally. And I always will be.” – Rob Halford
53. “That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.” – George R.R. Martin
54. “In the calm, deep waters of the mind, the wolf waits.” – F.T. McKinstry
55. “Report makes the wolf bigger than he is.” – German Proverb
56. “To the wolves, you left me to the wolves. Thought it was me and you against the world but you left me to the wolves.” – Anberlin
57. “Fierce as the proling wolves at close of day, and swift as eagles in pursuit of prey.” – Thomas Parnell
58. “Wolves with wolves are never savage.” – James Clerk Maxwell
59. “In freedom, wolves are grown, but deal with them is short: In grass, in ice, in snow, — A wolf is always shot.” – Anna Akhmatova
60. “Wolves don’t perform in a circus, and people with a mind of their own, don’t perform in a circus either.” – Avijeet Das
