“Even hares insult a dead lion”
Proverb
“Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead”
“You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard”
William Shakespeare
“When the lion is dead the hares jump upon his carcase”
“Every hare may pluck the dead lion's mane”
“The blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!”
“`Then you should say what you mean,' the March Hare went on. `I do,' Alice hastily replied; `at least - at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know.'”
Lewis Carroll