Robert K. Massie Quotes

Men are like lions. We hunt.

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.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

When the Fox hears the Rabbit scream he comes a-runnin', but not to help.

A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

I prefer to be hunted compared to the other way around... I don't know how you say it.

Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.

As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.

I think anybody with an insecurity, which is everyone, appreciates the fact that it's much easier to be a predator than it is to be prey.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.

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

One of the stories that inspires me is that it is documented that a honey badger killed a lion in a one-on-one.

Most wives look at me the way lame deer look at a hungry lion.

For cats, a hound is a natural enemy. This is the order of things.

It's a pretty weird feeling when a wolf is scared of you.

The Catt sees not the mouse ever.

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.

We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.