67 Hyena Quotes
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HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places of the dead. But the medical student does that — Ambrose Bierce
We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal. — Henry David Thoreau
Feeling animalistic. Feeling Hyena. Feeling Wolf. Feeling Dog. I am tongue and heart. — David Wojnarowicz
A fly is as untamable as a hyena. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man, an animal that makes bargains. — Adam Smith
Elephants are contagious. — Paul Eluard
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. — Oliver Herford
I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah. He was trying to pull a fast one. — Tim Vine
The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man. — Robertson Davies
GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. — Ambrose Bierce
Chihuahua. There's a waste of dog food. Looks like a dog that is still far away. — Billiam Coronel
Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid. — Rodney Dangerfield
SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor. — Sayings
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. — Albert Schweitzer
The wolf has a thick neck because he does his job on his own. — Bulgarian Proverbs
Short Hyena Quotes
- A careful hyena lives a long time. — Zimbabwean Proverbs
- There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. — D. H. Lawrence
- Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone! — Lewis Carroll
- Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. — Jonathan Franzen
- I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind. — Henry Rollins
- You will always be a hyena. — Arthur Rimbaud
- There was a man who sold a hyena skin while the beast still lived and who was killed in hunting it. — Winston Churchill
- Although we followed that hyena for the best part of half an hour, we never caught up with it. — Louise Leakey
- Why was it the hot mean girls always ran in packs, like hyenas? — Rachel Caine
People Writing About Hyena
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Ambrose Bierce |
957 | 7203 |
 Henry David Thoreau |
2697 | 19655 |
 David Wojnarowicz |
12 | 109 |
 Ralph Waldo Emerson |
4234 | 36527 |
 Adam Smith |
191 | 2545 |
 Paul Eluard |
14 | 164 |
More Hyena Quotes
The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind! Against those hyenas there is no option but extermination! If the nuclear missiles had remained (in Cuba) we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City! — Che Guevara
I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf. — George Chapman
Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena. — H. Jay Dinshah
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope. — Aberjhani
The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn. — Hunter S. Thompson
Hamburger steak is carrion, and quite unfit for food except by a turkey buzzard, a hyena, or some other scavenger. — John Harvey Kellogg
Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener. — Ian Dury
Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear. — Hunter S. Thompson
But you can't kill humans It's-- Evil? The world is evil Risika. Wolves hunt the stragglers in a group of deer. Vultures devour the fallen.Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Of all the creatures in the world that really frighten me - the hyena in Africa, the great white shark - leopard seals are near the top of the list. They're killers. If my team spots one, they'll pull me out of the water. — Lewis Gordon
Madness is the WHO staring into the abyss and denying it is there. Madness is an ostrich who sticks her head in the sand while a pack of hyenas closes around her. - Lanky Man with green eyes — Dan Brown
Anyone who thinks cryptozoology is the study of the impossible has never really taken a very good look at the so-called "natural world." Once you get past the megamouth sharks, naked mole rats, and spotted hyenas, then the basilisks, dragons, and cuckoos just don't seem that unreasonable. Unpleasant, yes, but unreasonable? Not really. — Mira Grant
We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey declares its existence, screeching a maniac's gibberish. Our entire world, always doing battle against the silence and obscurity of death. — Chuck Palahniuk
Declare war on passivity. Hush the inner voice that insists you're over the hill, past your prime, unworthy of attaining those dreams. Disbelief is now the enemy, as is the notion of settling. Get hungry- hyena hungry. Get fired up. Find your backbone, and your wings. Flap 'em. It's the only way you'll be able to fly. — J. C. Hutchins
As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie. — Henry Miller
I don't mind if, according to the Law of Evolution, my grand grand grand etc. father is a monkey,but I do mind if he is a hyena or a jackal! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
With all our crime and all our immorality ... and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea! — Will Rogers
With a haircut like that and a face like that, it looks like Billy Ray Cyrus went and had sex with a retarded hyena. — Dwayne Johnson
A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion. — Sheldon Vanauken
But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive. — Kristan Higgins
I used to watch nature shows and laugh at them. Everyone thought I was crazy. "Why are you laughing at a nature show?" Isn't it beautiful? Isn't it beautiful watching hyenas eat their young? This was crazy! What's beautiful about nature is just insane. A bunch of crazy stuff happening. — John Kricfalusi
The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989. — Philip French
I did absolutely love playing Tabaqui, the hyena, who is morally conflicted and a villain, but also quite sweet. — Tom Hollander
[Richard M. Nixon was] a foul caricature of himself, a man with no soul, no inner convictions, with the integrity of a hyena and the style of a poison toad. — Hunter S. Thompson
God must've had a blast. painting the stripes on the zebra, hanging the stars in the sky, putting the gold in the sunset. What creativity! Stretching the neck of the giraffe, putting the flutter in the mockingbird's wings, planting the giggle in the hyena. And then, as a finale to a brilliant performance, He made a human who had the unique honour to bear the stamp, In His Image. — Max Lucado
And the truth was that most of Nash's friends weren't that bad. Their girlfriends were another story. Speaking of bloodthirsty hyenas... — Rachel Vincent
Love attacks. It sneaks up like a pride of lions or a pack of hyenas and eats your heart out while you watch. Love is the bully on the playground who takes your lunch money and gives you a black eye in return, the arsonist who burns your house down with you in it, the witch who lures you into her home with candy and boils you alive for dinner. Love is raw, and violent, and instantaneous. You don’t fall in love; you get trampled by it. — Bart Yates
I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena — Julia Child
Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies. — Mark Helprin
All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth. — Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
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