quotations about lions
Another custom holds that the lion is the only animal of the cat tribe born with its eyes open and it is said that it sleeps in a state of watchfulness. Whether true or not, no one would dispute its fantastic ability to see in the dark.
LESTER HARRY WRIGHT
Read It and Run
The gait of the lion is relaxed until he is ready to charge. The charge is a series of great springs.
THEODORE M. VESTAL
The Lion of Judah in the New World
The lion is grumpy. The animal chatter has wakened it from a deep sleep. Who disturbs my sleep? Come forward if you dare! Nobody stirs.
DONA HERWECK RICE
The Lion and the Mouse
The hind that would be mated by the lion,
Must die for love.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All's Well That Ends Well
I hear a lion in the lobby roar.
JAMES BRAMSTON
Art of Politics
Noble blood! bah! What blood is more noble or so pure as that of the lion? And yet he is only a brute.
MICHEL LE FAUCHEUR
attributed, Day's Collacon
That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Henry V
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
WOODY ALLEN
"Scrolls", Without Feathers
Doth frugality become a prince? Though the ant gathereth subsistence for a year, yet how can a lion store up his daily food?
IBN SABIR
attributed, Day's Collacon
A lion is at liberty who can follow the laws of his own nature, who can eat when his stomach tells him, who can sleep when his fierce eyes grow weary, who can scratch long furrows in a forest tree when his claws feel so disposed. He is not at liberty when he lives in a cage, is fed on horseflesh at 4 p.m., and is compelled at the point of a red-hot poker to spell P-I-G -- PIG, in the presence of a diverted crowd.
ROBERT HUGH BENSON
Intellectual Slavery
Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,
Sharp Roman road to Paradise,
Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll
With all my flesh, and keep my soul
STEVIE SMITH
Selected Poems
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
BIBLE
Isaiah 11:6
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
attributed, Thoughts Selected from the Ancient and Modern Poets
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
MARTIN AMIS
Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million