"All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. …Think about it. There's escaping from the wolves, fighting the wolves, capturing the wolves, taming the wolves. Being thrown to the wolves, or throwing others to the wolves so the wolves will eat them instead of you. Running with the wolf pack. Turning into a wolf. Best of all, turning into the head wolf. No other decent stories exist."

"A fox can fool seven wolves."

"A fox always finds more to eat than a wolf."

"Do not pretend to be a sheep, a wolf will eat you."

"Caught in a trap like a wolf in a net."

"In extreme need, a wolf can act as a fox."

"Luck is like a wolf: so evasive it can slip away."

"It is a wolf and it tears like a wolf."

"He who was born a wolf, cannot become a fox."

"Two wolves will seldom agree over one bone."

"Wolf, gnaw at your own sides. This is what is said at the same time when you place a stone under a pot, and it will save your cow from being eaten by wolves."

"People travel on straight paths, but wolves travel on devious paths."

"Ivan gave the wolf food for his mouth and teeth."

"A wolf is used to winter. This is not the first winter a wolf has lived through."

"A wolf is happier when it does not hear the hounds tracking it."

"Speak of the wolf and you will run into one."

"You will make your count, but a wolf will come and make its own count."

"Who could believe that a wolf will pasture sheep."

"Why let a wolf into a cattle shed?"

"A wolf hunts, but is also being hunted."

"A wolf can kill prey but it can also be caught."

"If you cannot catch a wolf in a trap, catch it in a net."

"He has a wolfish look, and he can curse like a wolf."

"He who keeps company with wolves, will learn to howl as a wolf."

"The wolf felt pity for the lamb, and so he left the skin and bones."

"He is looking as a wolf looks at a calf."

"A piglet cannot frighten a wolf."

"Legs help a rabbit to survive, teeth are responsible for the wolf's [survival], and cunning takes care of the fox."

"He pried in as a wolf but with a dog's tail."

"We wish our calf could butt wolves."

"If you are going to hunt a wolf, you should have a good dog to help."

"Do not put your finger into the mouth of a wolf."

"A timid sheep is easy prey for a wolf."

"A mare went to make peace with a wolf, but the mare did not return home."

"A bear is not subservient to a dog, a pig in an orchard is not a garden, a wolf is not a shepherd of sheep; a person who is stupid and deaf is a poor judge."

"You won't kill a wolf in a chase, but by cunning."

"A wolf lies in wait for sheep, but a shepherd guards the sheep."

"Where the wolf gets one lamb it looks for another."

"The wolf commits no mischief at home."

"The wolf does that in the course of the week which hinders him from going to mass on Sunday."

"The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclinations."

"The wolf and the fox are both in one story."

"One wolf does not bite/kill another."

"When one wolf eats another, there is nothing to eat in the wood."

"The wolf eats of what is counted."

"The wolf picks the ass's fleas by moonlight."

"The wolf is well pleased with the kick of a sheep."