LION QUOTES
quotations about lions
A lion doesn't concern itself with the opinion of sheep.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Game of Thrones
You know the lion is dangerous when it is quiet, stalking, sneaking up on its prey. Only after it has ambushed and killed its prey does the lion roar. It wants to intimidate the jackals.
J. HAND
Jeremiah's Journey
Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.
AFRICAN PROVERB
An injured lion still wants to roar.
RANDY PAUSCH
The Last Lecture
Every dog is a lion at home.
ITALIAN PROVERB
The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.
AESOP
attributed, Day's Collacon
It is better to go in the dark when the road must pass a lion and there is no other road.
ROBERT E. HOWARD
Kull: Exile of Atlantis
I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.
CHARLES MAURICE, PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD
attributed, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)
If you want to be a lion, you have to train with lions.
ANONYMOUS
The lion is an emblem of the dream of absolute power -- and, as a wild rather than a domestic animal, he belongs to a world outside the realm of society and culture.
CHARLES H. HINNANT
The Poetry of Anne Finch: An Essay in Interpretation
My soul is among lions.
BIBLE
Psalms 57:4
The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.
A. J. DARKHOLME
Rise of the Morningstar
A lion sleeps in the heart of every brave man.
TURKISH PROVERB
Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
attributed, Napoleon Bonaparte in Russia
Lions make leopards tame.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Richard II
Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
ZIMBABWEAN PROVERB
Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
WILL CUPPY
The Great Bustard and Other People
"It's a mystery," replied the Lion. "I suppose I was born that way. All the other animals in the forest naturally expect me to be brave, for the Lion is everywhere thought to be the King of Beasts. I learned that if I roared very loudly every living thing was frightened and got out of my way."
L. FRANK BAUM
The Wizard of Oz