“What does the wolf care if the sheep-fold be destroyed?”
— As quoted in John Lewis Burckhardt and William Ouseley, Arabic Proverbs: Or, The Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians, (1830).“"I will not bite any dog," says the shepherd's dog, "for I must save my teeth for the wolf."”
— As quoted in Henry G. Bohn, A polyglot of foreign proverbs, (1857).“A wolf pays no attention to a dog's barking.”
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007).“It is only one wolf, but it is howling with hunger in the bush.”
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007).“You will make your count, but a wolf will come and make its own count.”
— As quoted in Will Graves, Wolves in Russia: Anxiety throughout the Ages, (2007).“A wolf is handsome in the eyes of a lovesick girl.”
— English proverb, as quoted in Mineke Schipper, Never Marry a Woman with Big Feet: Women in Proverbs from around the World, (2003).
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