“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.”
Source: Lectures on Literature
“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.”
The Law of the Jungle, Stanzas 1 and 2.
The Second Jungle Book (1895)
Source: The Jungle Book
Context: p>Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky;
And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.As the creeper that girdles the tree trunk, the Law runneth forward and back;
For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.</p
Between the Bridge and the River (2006)
“Nobody becomes Tom Wolfe overnight, not even Tom Wolfe.”
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 4, Style, p. 20.
“The boy cried "Wolf, wolf!" and the villagers came out to help him.”
The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf.
“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”
Source: The Eye of the World
