Quotes of Lion - somelinesforyou

“ The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole. hearted and strenuous effort. ”

- Chanakya

“ If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion. ”

- Criss Jami

“ Knowledge is like a lion; it cannot be gently embraced. ”

- South African Proverb

“ It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. ”

- Elizabeth Kenny

“ Who is brave enough to tell the lion that his breath smells? ”

- Berber Proverbs

“ The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself. ”

- African proverb

“ Until the lion tells his side of the story, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. ”

- Zimbabwean Proverb

“ I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won’t get much sleep. ”

- Woody Allen

“ A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life. ”

- Charles de Gaulle

“ Familiarity makes the lion more dangerous. ”

- Jocelyn Murray

“ That’s a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. ”

- Vernon Howard

“ Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus. ”

- Alfred Victor Vigny

“ An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. ”

- Walter Winchell

“ Fear an ignorant man more than a lion. ”

- Turkish Proverb

“ I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ The lion’s power lies in our fear of him. ”

- Nigerian Proverbs

“ I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn’t shut up! ”

- Ingrid Bergman

“ It’s better to be a free dog than a caged lion. ”

- Arabian proverb

“ Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide. ”

- Jean de La Fontaine

“ Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. ”

- Martin Amis

“ You can tell a lion from where he dwells. ”

- Turkish Proverb

“ The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. ”

- Aaron Hill

“ I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike — I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. ”

- Spiro T. Agnew
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