Virgil Quotes

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.'

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.

Big fish eat little fish.

Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.

Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time.

This world belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept their role in the ritual and recognize the wolf as the strong. In defense, the rabbit becomes sly and frightened and elusive and he digs holes and hides when the wolf is about. And he endures, he goes on. He knows his place. He most certainly doesn't challenge the wolf to combat. Now, would that be wise? Would it?

Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be eaten!' and which would seem to be one great slaughter-house, one universal scene of rapacity and injustice!

Nature taking its course - hunter and prey, the endless circle of life and death.

We're interested in things that have big teeth, and you can see the evolutionary value of that, and you can also see the practical consequences by watching 'Animal Planet.' You notice they make very few programs about gerbils. It's mostly about things that have big teeth.

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

Wolves can't catch what dogs do not expose.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

I remember one time watching a bird snatch a dragonfly out of midair and thinking, 'Gee, life can come to an end - crunch! - just like that.'

That's the food chain that cricket is sometimes. You have to be at the top of it otherwise you get swept away and eaten up.

Life eats life to live.