Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

The wolf asketh not how many the sheep may be.

No other creatures of the savannah sleep as deeply or as soundly as lions, but after all, lions are the main reason for not sleeping soundly.

If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em.

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

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

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

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

The Stag at Bay with the mentality of a fox at large.

It was a pretty good year for predators.

Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport?

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.

In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear.

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.

The truth is, everything is eating and being eaten.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

We eat, therefore we hunt.

I don't think anyone can be more of a predator than a human being.

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

Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.

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.

Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow.

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

Most predatory animals, if you give them an inch they just go with it. Any animal - a tiger, a shark, anything - you can't act like something that is afraid of it and that's where all their predatory instincts come in.

I hunt deer because they aren't capable of higher forms of thinking. All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away'. They are very much like the French in that way.

The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads.