quotations about lions
Lions at home, foxes abroad.
ROMAN PROVERB
Thou wear a lion's hide! Doff it for shame,
And hang a calfskin on those recreant limbs.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King John
The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spake Zarathustra
A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Midsummer Night's Dream
So the lion is the law-breaker. Just as to the primitive man the lion is the lawbreaker, the great nuisance, dangerous to human beings and to animals, that breaks into the Kraal at night and fetches the bull out of the herd: he is the destructive instinct.
CARL JUNG
Nietzsche's Zarathustra
Better a live dog than a dead lion.
PAUL HOFFMAN
The Left Hand of God
Knowledge is like a lion; it cannot be gently embraced.
SOUTH AFRICAN PROVERB
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
attributed, The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor
A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.
GEORGE SEFERIS
"A Greek Poet's Odyssey", Life Magazine, Jan. 17, 1964
Who is brave enough to tell the lion that his breath stinks?
BERBER PROVERB
The lion is the defender of faith, strength, valor, fortitude, and kingliness.
MURRAY ZIMILES
Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses
In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle, the quiet jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
SOLOMON LINDA
"Mbube"
The blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Henry IV, Part I
Ordinary people regard a man of a certain force and flexibility of character as they do a lion; they look at him with a sort of wonder, perhaps they admire him; but they will on no account house with him.
MERKEL
attributed, Day's Collacon
An army of asses led by a lion is vastly superior to an army of lions led by an ass.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
attributed, The Long Gray Line
Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua
Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous.
JOCELYN MURRAY
The Gilded Mirror: Vesuvius Rising
The lion is passion, the lion is the fire. Lions call you to them.
MICHAEL SAMUELS
Shaman Wisdom, Shaman Healing
Nature only shows us the tail of the lion. I am convinced, however, that the lion is attached to it, even though he cannot reveal himself directly because of his enormous size.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
letter to H. Zangger, Mar. 10, 1914
Of all animals, the outward form of the Lion is the most striking ; his look is bold and confident; his gait proud; and his voice terrible ; and from his great strength and agility, is usually styled the king of beasts.
WILLIAM PINNOCK
The Guide to Knowledge