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What they say about us...
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It is better to live one day as a lion than a thousand as a lamb.
Unknown
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The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Woody Allen
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The hind that would be mated by the lion, must die for love.
William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well
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When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Ethiopian proverb.
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Even the lion has to defend itself against flies.
German proverb.
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Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion.
Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings (100 B.C.).
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An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
George Chapman, Alphonsus.
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The lion on your old stone gates,
is not more cold to you than I.
Alfred Tennyson, Lady Clara Vere de Vere
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Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or
the tiger or even the elephant.
It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
Jack Handey
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I prefer an army of deer commanded by a lion over an army of lions, commanded by a deer.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep.
Og Mandino ('The greatest salesman in the world')
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God shield us! - a lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing;
for there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living.
William Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream
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Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame,
And hang a calf's-skin on those recreant limbs!
William Shakespeare, King John III
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Strong is the lion - like a coal
His eyeball - like a basion's mole
His chest against the foes.
Christopher Smart, Song to David
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar;
And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.
William Cowper, Olney Hymns
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