Lion Quotes
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He'll be coming and going" he had said. "One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.
C. S. Lewis -
I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.
C. S. Lewis
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I was a creative player, but I got some bad injuries early on and I decided that if this was a jungle we were playing in then it's better to be a lion than a lamb.
Johnny Giles -
The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Every lion has a time in their life when a thorn has got to them at one point.
Anthony Robbins -
The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
William Blake -
I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
Yann Martel -
I may be an old lion, but I can still bite someone's hand off if he puts it in my mouth.
Wilhelm Steinitz
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An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
Charles Dickens -
In 2006, I hung out with The Carter Center as they monitored the Palestinian elections. Nobody thought Hamas would win. Hamas did not think Hamas could win. The lion's share of folks I spoke to who were voting for them were not actually voting for Hamas but against Fatah.
Maysoon Zayid -
Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
Jean de La Fontaine -
March was doing exactly as it should; it had come in like a lamb, now it was going out like a lion.
Betty Neels -
Love is like the lion’s tooth.
Emily St. John Mandel -
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
Alexander III of Russia
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The lion began to contemplate me with a kind of quiet premeditation, like that of a slow-witted man fondling an unaccustomed thought.
Beryl Markham -
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
Honore de Balzac -
I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
Victor Hugo -
The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.
George Fordyce -
I was once, I think, bitten on the nose by a lion cub.
Newt Gingrich
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Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.
Hector Hugh Munro -
When I see Lionel Messi play soccer, he lets the game come to him. He lets the game unveil itself to him, then like a lion he eats the whole thing.
Ethan Hawke -
Spiderwebs joined together can catch a lion.
Elizabeth Wein