"I am a --- hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind."
Henry Rollins

For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
Rudyard Kipling

“Snakes in the ancient world, because of their skin-shedding ability, often symbolized immortality or eternal youth.”
― Alice K. Turner, The History of Hell

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
-- Ivy Compton-Burnett

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
-- Ivy Compton-Burnett

Jaguars, afterall, were fairly common, and so people were more respectful than afraid of them, just as they were of any other natural force.
-- Victor Villasenor

Rats have a sense of humor. Rats, in fact think the world is very funny. And they are right, dear reader. They are right.
Kate DiCamillo

Let's be perfectly clear, shall we. The fox is not a little orange puppy dog with doe eyes and a waggly tail. It's a disease-ridden wolf with the morals of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark.
Jeremy Clarkson

If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear,
You must never, never, never ask him where he is going,
Or what he is doing;
For if you ever, ever dare, to stop a grizzly bear;
You will never meet another grizzly bear.
Mary Hunter Austin