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I dream of eagles
and bring forth sparrows.
-Truman Capote

Sometimes I fly like an eagle
but with the wings of a wren.
-Anne Sexton

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar,
and there is a hippopotamus in me
that wants to wallow in the mud.
-Carl Sandburg

Make no friendship with an elephant-keeper
If you have not room to entertain an elephant.
-Sa'adi

When two elephants fight,
it is the grass that suffers.
-Kenyan Proverb

The horse, the horse!
The symbol of surging potency
and the power of movement, of action,
in man.
-D. H. Lawrence

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep
that their interests and his own are the same.
-Stendhal

You who play at butting with a ram;
You will soon see a broken head.
-Sa'adi

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 as the salt of the earth.
-Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Perhaps I am a bear,
or some hibernating animal underneath,
for the instinct to be half asleep all winter
is so strong in me.
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Hunger drives the wolf out of the wood.

-German Proverb

If you run from a wolf,

you may run into a bear.

-Lithuanian Proverb

A hog that has wallowed in the mud
seeks a clean person to rub against.
-African Proverb

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog,
presumably you just give 'em a mirror
and a few pictures of hedgehogs
and tell them to sort it out for themselves.
-Douglas Adams

If you cannot stand a sting,
do not put your finger in a scorpion's nest.
-Sa'adi

The more hidden the venom,
the more dangerous it is.
-Marguerite de Valois

Strange that creatures without backbones 

have the hardest shells.

-Kahlil Gibran

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Every heart is the lair of a ferocious animal.
The greatest wrong that you can put upon a man
is to provoke him to let out his beast.
-Ambrose Bierce

A beast does not know that he is a beast,
and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
-George MacDonald

A bull in a china shop is not a useful animal, nor is he ornamental,
but there can be no doubt of his energy.
The hare was full of energy, but he didn't win the race.
The man who stands still is the man who keeps his ground.
-Anthony Trollope