(215 quotes found)
“We may talk as we please of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles in fields of d'or or d'argent, but if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in the field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms”
Abraham Cowley
“There be three things which go well, yea, four are comely in going: / A lion which is strongest among beasts, and turneth not away for any; / A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.”
Bible
“An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.”
Walter Winchell
“Of course, it’s a bit of a jump, isn’t it? I mean, er… chartered accountancy to lion taming in one go… You don’t think it might be better if you worked your way towards lion taming, say via banking?”
Monty Python
“You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.'”
William Tecumseh Sherman
“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 M. de Talleyrand
“After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.”
Bert Lahr
“Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.”
“Even hares insult a dead lion”
Proverb
“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
