Animals Quote by Ambrose Bierce

There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it.

— Winston Churchill

“They were all intensely excited, and all overflowing with noisy expressions of their loyalty to the Law. Yet I felt an absolute assurance in…

— H G Wells

“If people's night fears of sorcery - which negatively influences their decision to use mosquito nets - fail to impress the outsider, the brute…

— T.K. Naliaka

“Vultures devour the fallen. Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey,…

— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Ever seen a hyena eat his kids and the way we know it for its greed?

— Chegemania

“When lions fight over a goat, it's usually the hyena that gets away with the prize.”

— Ashwin Sanghi

Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it.

— Louis Leakey

GRAVE, n. A place in which the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.

— Ambrose Bierce

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn't worry about how many hyenas are in the way.

— John Hawkins

“Every culture has death rituals with the power to shock the uninitiated and challenge our personal web of significance—from the Wari’ roasting the flesh…

— Caitlin Doughty

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

— Henry Rollins