Birds of prey do not flock together. [ Portuguese Proverb ]
An old cat sports not with her prey. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Foxes prey farthest from their earths. [ Proverb ]
Here the fell attorney prowls for prey. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Proud Nimrod first the bloody chase began,
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. [ Pope ]
Who to dumb forgetfulness a prey,
This pleasing anxious being ever resigned;
Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day,
Nor cast one longing lingering look behind? [ Gray ]
All beasts of prey are strong or treacherous. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Love will find its way
Through paths where wolves would fear to prey. [ Byron ]
Man is a carnivorous production,
And must have meals, at least one meal a day;
He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction.
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey.
Although his anatomical construction
Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,
Your laboring people think beyond all question,
Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. [ Byron ]
Trust not the treason of those smiling looks.
Until ye have their guileful trains well tried;
For they are like but unto golden hooks.
That from the foolish fish their baits do hide:
So she with flattering smiles weak hearts doth guide
Unto her love, and tempt to their decay;
Whom, being caught, she kills with cruel pride,
And feeds at pleasure on the wretched prey. [ Spenser ]
When sharpers prey upon one another, there is no game abroad. [ Proverb ]
Neutrality is dangerous, whereby thou becomest a necessary prey to the conqueror. [ Quarles ]
When an eagle soareth nearest to the sun he is hovering for his prey, and when a woman is most lip-holy she is most bait on mischief. [ Dempster ]
Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion. [ Lord Karnes ]
Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight. [ Emerson ]