Lions Quotes - Page 6

• Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Path, Defeat, Dangerous

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• The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Animal, Reptiles

  Mahatma Gandhi (1969). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Mouths, Performances

  Winston Churchill (2013). “London to Ladysmith & Ian Hamilton's March”, p.175, Courier Corporation

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• O trees of life, O when are you wintering?We are not unified. We have no instinctslike those of migratory birds. Useless, and late,we force ourselves, suddenly, onto the wind,and fall down to an indifferent lake.We realise flowering and fading together.And somewhere lions still roam. Never knowing,as long as they have their splendour, of any weakness.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fall, Wind, Knowing

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• A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

  Edward Abbey

  Zoos, Snakes, Earth Day

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.

  Johann Gottfried Herder

  Discipline, Brave, World

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• All this shouldn't last; but it will, always; the human 'always' of course, a century, two centuries... and after that it will be different, but worse. We were the Leopards, the Lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.

  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

  Thinking, Sheep, Two

  Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (2010). “The Leopard: Revised and with new material”, p.143, Random House

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• Some are dinning in our ears that we Americans, and moderns generally, are intellectual dwarfs compared with the ancients, or eventhe Elizabethan men. But what is that to the purpose? A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can? Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Men, Race

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.231, Xist Publishing

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• What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

  John Vaillant

  Whales, Answers, Language

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• It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  May, Easier, Jackals

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.226, Penguin

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• If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods likes horses and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the bodies of each. So the Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians give theirs red hair and blue eyes.

  Xenophanes

  Art, Horse, Eye

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• Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Camels, Three

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.91, Penguin

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• Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

  Victor Hugo

  Wine, Sheep, Degrees

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.439, Modern Library

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• Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Eye, Doubt

  Letter to Heinrich Zangger (10 March 1914), quoted in "The Curious History of Relativity" by Jean Eisenstaedt, (p. 126), 2006.

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• I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Doe, Safe

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• For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

  Victor Hugo

  Dog, Kings, Cat

  Victor Hugo (1917). “The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction”

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• The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand

  Photography, Taught, Penetrate

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• This is not an end. It is a beginning. You will need the courage of a lion to face this journey.

  Erin Hunter

  Journey, Needs, Faces

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• Each body is a lion of courage, something precious of the earth.

  Mary Oliver

  Emotional, Body, Earth

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• I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.

  Lord Byron

  Land, Bridges, Wings

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.264, Delphi Classics

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• The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.

  James K. Baxter

  Poetry, Dens

  James K. Baxter, John Edward Weir (1979). “Collected poems”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
  must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

  T. D. Jakes

  Running, Regret, Winning

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• I thought you'd rather have a live donkey than a dead lion.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Donkey

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• I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

  Robert Bloch

  New York, Library, Stones

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• If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Procrastination, Men, Roaring

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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