63 Jackals Quotes
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Famous Jackals Quotes
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. — Ernest Hemingway
Man, an animal that makes bargains. — Adam Smith
A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass. — George Washington
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
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope. — Herman Melville
We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal. — Henry David Thoreau
One day's life of a lion is preferable to hundred years of a jackal. — Tipu Sultan
We got to stay awake for all these lizards and snakes; Some of them come as friends, some of them come as Jakes. — Q-Tip
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself. — T. Casey Brennan
When one runs with the wolves, one must howl with the pack. — Leon Trotsky
Even savage animals can agree among themselves. — Juvenal
He who cannot howl will not find his pack. — Charles Simic
There are wolves and there are sheep. Be a wolf. — Jordan Belfort
If you call one wolf, you invite the pack. — Bulgarian Proverbs
When you hunt predators, the best camouflage is weakness. — Andrew Vachss
Short Jackals Quotes
- It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years. — Tipu Sultan
- Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. — H. L. Mencken
- Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war. — Barbara Tuchman
- Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses. — H. L. Mencken
- Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
- Lawyers are the jackals of commerce. — Elbert Hubbard
- Never hear what a jackal-speaking person thinks, especially what they think about you. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
- Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well. — Cyril Connolly
People Writing About Jackals
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 H. L. Mencken |
913 | 7279 |
 Ernest Hemingway |
812 | 11022 |
 Adam Smith |
191 | 2545 |
 George Washington |
649 | 8310 |
 Ambrose Bierce |
957 | 7203 |
 Herman Melville |
487 | 2541 |
More Jackals Quotes
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier. — Robert A. Heinlein
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
But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin. — Guru Nanak
He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal. — Frederick Forsyth
Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal or something. The United States hires terrorist states. — Noam Chomsky
When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it? — P. J. O'Rourke
I may be biased, but I think jackals are cute and cuddly, even if they were known for digging up graves in Ancient Egypt. — Rick Riordan
Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Dingoes, jackals, skunks, vipers and weasel are now illegal in New York City. Well great, who's going to run CBS? — David Letterman
If you are a jackal, you will try to reassure. Jackals try to fix people in pain. They can't stand pain, but make matters worse by trying to get rid of it. Put on giraffe ears. Try to hear what they are feeling and needing. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
My favourite novel is Frederick Forsythe's Day Of The Jackal, the story about the unproven case of this apparent Englishman who was hired to assassinate De Gaulle . — Charles Kennedy
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
When it is perceived that a show has gone awry, the pressure is staggering, and as a writer caught in that storm, it feels like you are being attacked by jackals. — Steven Bochco
Fix-it jackals can't wait to fix it, because they don't know how to enjoy pain. And until you learn how to enjoy pain, you can't enjoy intimacy. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
That is how life goes--we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's. — Marilynne Robinson
The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals. — Aldous Huxley
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor. — Neil Gaiman
He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price. — Walter Hill
And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals. — John Perkins
They’re barking at him, laughing at him. But every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals who he is. — Christopher Walken
When you are in a jackal environment, never give them the power to submit or rebel. We want to teach this to children very early: Never lose track that you are always free to choose. Don't allow institutions to determine what you do. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
As soon as you say, "are you feeling X because I ..." Then the Jackal starts to salivate because he can educate the person that he's the cause of his pain. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Any time you throw pain at a Jackal without a clear present request, within a millisecond he'll jump in. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do. — David Brooks
When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag. — Idries Shah
Books aren't made in the way that babies are: they are made like pyramids. There's some long-pondered plan, and then great blocks of stone are placed one on top of the other, and it's back-breaking, sweaty, time consuming work. And all to no purpose! It just stands there in the desert! But it towers over it prodigiously. Jackals piss at the base of it, and bourgeois clamber to the top of it, etc. Continue this comparison. — Gustave Flaubert
...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them. — John Steinbeck
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
And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you. — C. S. Lewis
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