Lion Quotes

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. (Oliver Herford)
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. View quote
Woody Allen
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. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
An army of sheep, led by a lion, is better than an army of lions, led by a sheep. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up! View quote
Ingrid Bergman
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others. View quote
Albert Einstein
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. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
Such is the prestige of the Nobel award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practiced it through the ages. View quote
John Steinbeck
It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. (Daniel Defoe)
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. View quote
Giorgos Seferis
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep. View quote
Benito Mussolini
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. View quote
Martin Amis
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. View quote
George Chapman
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God. View quote
William Blake
The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion the horse, how he shall take his prey. View quote
William Blake
It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. (Havelock Ellis)
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. View quote
Vernon Howard
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion. View quote
Alexander the Great
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants. View quote
Saskya Pandita
Some would say the Creator is a lamb. Some would say he's a lion. Some would say both. The fact is, he is neither a lamb nor a lion. These are fiction. Metaphors. Yet the Creator is both a lamb and a lion. These are both truths. View quote
Ted Dekker
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