Wild Instinct Quotes

Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.

I'm a real animal. I'm an animal.

I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

The cat is domestic only as far as suits its own ends.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

Nature knows best, and she says, roar!

Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

There is a wolf in me... - I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.

The Wolfe knowes, what the ill beast thinkes.

Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.

The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.

I go where the lizards tell me.

He said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men do not: that there is no order in this world save that which death has put there.

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf. These dogs advance deliberately, purposefully, the wilderness made flesh, their teeth yellow, their breath a-stink, while in the distance their owners witter, "He's an old soppy really, just poke him if he's a nuisance," and in the green of their eyes the red campfires of the Pleistocene gleam and flicker.

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.

Always the cat remains a little beyond the limits we try to set for him in our blind folly.

The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

You don't take your cat with you to go bird shopping. Not because the cat isn't polite, but because he's a cat.

The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.