Lion Quotes - page 2

You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats. (Tippi Hedren)
We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.
Tippi Hedren
I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.
Joanne Harris
We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.
Dirk Benedict
By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man ... Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocracies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.
John Adams
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.
Robert A. Heinlein
Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves.
Niccolò Machiavelli
The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.
Rajneesh
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb..." he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.
Stephenie Meyer
Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.
Gertrude Stein
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't. (P. G. Wodehouse)
Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?
Friedrich Schiller
The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.
George Herbert
Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians--except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
Ted Nugent
Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.
Will Cuppy
I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.
John Steinbeck
Failure is a state of mind. It's like one of those sand traps an ant lion digs. You keep sliding back. Takes one hell of a jump to get out of it.
John Steinbeck
The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
Rumi
Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.
Swami Vivekananda
There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense... Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need.
Stendhal
If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself. (Michael Frayn)
Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion.
William Shakespeare
I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.
Wyndham Lewis
Rouse the lion from his lair.
Walter Scott
And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall.
Walter Scott