“It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous”
Crystal Eastman
“No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb unless the lamb is inside.”
D.H. Lawrence
“The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.”
Bible
“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.”
“Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.”
Samuel Gompers
“An Englishman, / Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
George Chapman
“In the divine Scriptures, there are shallows and there are deeps; shallows where the lamb may wade, and deeps where the elephant may swim”
John Owen
