Lion Quotes

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill

Heart, Give, Nation

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Alexander the Great

Afraid, Army, Sheep

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw

Courage, Thought, Inside

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Elizabeth Kenny

A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Vernon Howard

Strong, Person, Others

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Daniel Defoe

Head, Army, Sheep

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Government, Sometimes, Whole

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
Chanakya

Done, Him, Learned

Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians - except for the occasional mountain lion steak.
Ted Nugent

Cool, Eat, Except

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

Sleep, Lie, Together

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
Ingrid Bergman

Human, Inside, Shut

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

Pride, Grateful, Profession

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
Baltasar Gracian

Nothing, Dog, Thirty

All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
Christian Lous Lange

Strength, Alone, Struggle

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
Oliver Herford

Human, Dogs, Loves

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Him, Understand, Talk

Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
Jean de La Fontaine

Far, Skin, Terror

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
Carlos Castaneda

Men, Power, Simple

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
Elizabeth I

Nature, Fear, Small

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
Charles de Gaulle

Life, Made, Reading

A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together.
Chuck Jones

Work, Live, Together

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Living, Dead, While

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Walter Winchell

Someone, Optimist, Scenery

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
William Tecumseh Sherman

May, Eat, Breakfast

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.
Will Cuppy

Respect, Lose, Unless

As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.
Benjamin Netanyahu

Down, Far, Lies

I would love to go into an animal's dream - like a lion's or a cat's. I'm sure that's pretty awesome.
Marion Cotillard

Love, Pretty, Dream

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Afraid, Army, Sheep

It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.
Joanna Lumley

Single, Down, Difficult

For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Living, Dead, Dog

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