LION QUOTES III

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


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


The hind that would be mated by the lion,
Must die for love.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

All's Well That Ends Well


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


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

Tags: Robert Hugh Benson


The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

WOODY ALLEN

"Scrolls", Without Feathers

Tags: Woody Allen


That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Henry V


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


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


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


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

Tags: Martin Amis


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