“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”
Source: Ulysses
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James Joyce191
Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes
“Beware the wolf in sheep's clothing.”
Aesop (-620–-564 BC) ancient Greek storyteller
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
“[ Hee that makes himself a sheep shall be eat by the wolfe. ]”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“[ The wolfe eats oft of the sheep that have been warn'd. ]”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.”
Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka
Source: もののけ姫 [Mononoke hime]
“If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
Source: The Eye of the World
Barry Mazur (1937) American mathematician
Barry Mazur, [Number Theory as Gadfly, Amer. Math. Monthly, 98, 1991, 593–610, http://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/number-theory-as-gadfly]
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral (1597), XXIX: "Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates."