Till the wolf and the lamb be united.

-Aristophanes
On the impossibility of peace between sworn enemies. Pax, l.1076.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw likethe ox. And thesucking child shall playonthehole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice'den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the L, as the waters cover the sea.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah11:6^9.

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the L.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 65:25.

   I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep. The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.Iamthegood shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold: them also must I bring, and theyshall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John10:11^16.

   What shall we say of the intelligence, not to say religion, of those who are so particular to distinguish between fishes and reptiles and birds, but put a man with an immortalsoul inthesame circlewiththewolf, thehyena, and theskunk? What must betheimpressionmadeupon children by such a degradation of man?

-Bryan,WilliamJennings
Statement issued in Dayton, Tennessee, 28  Jul1925, by Mrs W  J Bryan, shortly after the endof the Scopes trial and her husband's death.

It's naked child against hungry wolf; it's playing bowls upon a splitting wreck; it's walking on a string across a gulf with millstones fore-and-aft about your neck; but the thing is daily done by manyand many a one; and we fall, face forward, fighting, on the deck.

-Davidson,John
  Ballads and Songs,'Thirty Bob a Week', stanza16.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

-Inge,William Ralph
  Outspoken Essays (first series),'Patriotism'.

They have let the wolf into the sheepfold!

-Ingres,Jean Auguste Dominique
   Attributed remark on hearing that Delacroix had been elected to the  Academy. Quoted in P Amaury-Duval L'Atelier d'Ingres (1878).

Now this is the Law of the Jungleöas old and as true as the sky; 471

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard

Theyare sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs 578 Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

-Milton,John
  Lycidas, l.122^31.

   Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit. A man is a wolf, and not a man, to another man, for as long as he doesn't know what he is like.

-Plautus,Titus Maccius
Asinaria,495.The phrase is often rendered'Homo homini lupus' ('Man is a wolf to another man').

But the skin of progress Masks, unknown, the spotted wolf of sameness.

-Soyinka,Wole pseudonym of Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka
  The Lion and theJewel (published1962),'Night'.

Woman to man Is either a God or a wolfe.

-Webster,John
  TheWhite Devil, act 4, sc.2.