Film — Live-Action
Travis: What happened?
Mama: It was so sudden, I don't hardly know. The wolf came leapin' out at us.
Travis: Lucky you had Old Yeller.
Mama: It was lucky for us, son, but it weren't lucky for Old Yeller.
Mama: No wolf in his right mind would've jumped us at the fire... not even a loafer wolf. That wolf was mad.
Literature
Meera Reed: Did you know [direwolves] would be so big?
Jojen Reed: They will be bigger still before they are grown. The black one is full of fear and rage, but the grey is strong, stronger than he knows.
"It's been a particularly hard winter and you mustn't believe all you hear about wolves not being dangerous. During a bad winter, when food's scarce, they'll attack anything: man, woman or child."
— Paula Vacker, Icebreaker
"Swiftly the wolf grew, until he could creep into no den, but lay huge and hungry before the feet of Morgoth"
Music
See me now, I was another,
Mean and vicious, fast and clever,
see me now, you would not dream,
The food I ate, the food that screamed
Mean and vicious, fast and clever,
see me now, you would not dream,
The food I ate, the food that screamed
— "In The Year of the Wolf", Motörhead
Mythology and Religion
"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder."
— Genesis 49:27.
"Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves."
— Matthew 7:15.
Poetry
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold
And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold
— Lord Byron, "The Destruction of Sennacherib"
"The ox toils through the furrow,
Obedient to the goad;
The patient ass, up flinty paths,
Plods with his weary load:
With whine and bound the spaniel
His master's whistle hears;
And the sheep yields her patiently
To the loud-clashing shears.
But thy nurse will hear no master,
Thy nurse will bear no load;
And woe to them that shear her,
And woe to them that goad!
When all the pack, loud baying,
Her bloody lair surrounds,
She dies in silence, biting hard,
Amidst the dying hounds.
Obedient to the goad;
The patient ass, up flinty paths,
Plods with his weary load:
With whine and bound the spaniel
His master's whistle hears;
And the sheep yields her patiently
To the loud-clashing shears.
But thy nurse will hear no master,
Thy nurse will bear no load;
And woe to them that shear her,
And woe to them that goad!
When all the pack, loud baying,
Her bloody lair surrounds,
She dies in silence, biting hard,
Amidst the dying hounds.
— Sir Thomas Maculay, "Lays of Ancient Rome"
Video Games
"Watch out for this ferocious beast! With sharp fangs and glinting eyes, it's sure to add a fright to this Halloween."
— Werewolf Flavor Text, Everybody Edits Flash
"These wolves are not only carnivorous but can also be downright fierce. They're highly aggressive and aren't afraid to attack people. They hunt in groups and surround their prey as a means of bringing it down. That said, if one of their own is injured, the rest are wise enough to run away. They communicate via howls, so if you're wandering the forest and hear their call, you had best take care."
—Compendium entry on Maraudo Wolves, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
"The wolves are back, howling through the snows.
Seems they didn’t get the message last time, so Kruber's out there now, pinning tails to fence posts and loping around in that big, one-eyed pelt he took off the last snarling chieftain that reckoned we were a good bet for a tasty morsel on a cold day."
Seems they didn’t get the message last time, so Kruber's out there now, pinning tails to fence posts and loping around in that big, one-eyed pelt he took off the last snarling chieftain that reckoned we were a good bet for a tasty morsel on a cold day."
Web Original
In this game, you play Samrin the Kacheek, a simple shepherd who has to get his Petpets to safety before Balthazar (who is very hungry after a day hunting faeries) eats them all. Try and put them all into the paddock before Balthazar eats them. You have three lives, and you lose one each time that you or a Petpet gets eaten.
— Extreme Herder game description, Neopets
Other
"Wolves don't suffer things like guilt or remorse."
— Shaun Ellis, "Interview With A Man Among Wolves"
"The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation."
— Theodore Roosevelt, "Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches"
"Even if a wolf travels a thousand miles, it will still eat people and even if a dog gets as far as the horizon, it will still eat excrement."
— Chinese proverb
Just then, as luck would have it, a big, mean, hairy, ferocious, snarling, carnivorous wolf, huh, did come out of the forest! But I guess we all knew that was coming. I mean, the story is called, Peter and the Wolf.
