Lions Quotes - Page 7

• I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Running, Zoos, Sharks

  Wyndham Lewis (1967). “Blasting & Bombardiering”, p.12, Univ of California Press

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• I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties.

  Salvador Dali

  Writing, Doubt, Sides

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• Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

  John Bunyan

  Strong, Heart, Men

  John Bunyan (2005). “The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.261, New Leaf Publishing Group

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• The lion in the jungle makes every other animal sit up and take notice as soon as he lets out a roar. He didn't get that way through artificial paraphernalia or through springs and wires and trick dumbells. He became the king of the jungle through constant natural use of every muscle in his body.

  Charles Atlas

  Kings, Spring, Animal

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• Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

  August Strindberg

  Mad, Bees, Common

  Johan August Strindberg, Michael Robinson (2008). “Miss Julie and Other Plays”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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• The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred "No" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Brother, Sacred, Creation

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.92, Penguin

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• A pekingeese is not a pet dog; he is an undersized lion.

  A. A. Milne

  Funny, Dog, Pet

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• The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,
  While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.
  “If oxen and horses and lions had hands and were able to draw with their hands and do the same things as men, horses would draw the shapes of gods to look like horses and oxen would draw them to look like oxen, and each would make the gods' bodies have the same shape as they themselves had.

  Xenophanes

  Horse, Eye, Men

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• The raw fruits of the earth were made for human sustenance. Even the white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. There are, it is true, some inconveniences: lions and tigers are too fierce, the summer is too hot, and the winter too cold. But these things only began after Adam ate the apple; I before that, all animals were vegetarians, and the season was always spring. If only Adam had been content with peaches and nectarines, grapes and pears and pineapples, these blessings would still be ours.

  Bertrand Russell

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Courage, Animal, People

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• Nature is none other than God in things. Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; whence all of God is in all things. Think thus, of the sun in the crocus, in the narcissus, in the heliotrope, in the rooster, in the lion.

  Giordano Bruno

  Animal, Thinking, Roosters

  "Elements of Pantheism". Book by Paul Harrison, 1999.

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• Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.

  David Attenborough

  Children, Book, Reading

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• The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 13: Sermons 728 to 787”, p.308, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.

  Thomas More

  Men, Hard, Ifs

  Saint Thomas More (2005). “Utopia”

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• The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Foxes, Traps, Protect

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.55, Knickerbocker Classics

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• When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage.

  Yukio Mishima

  Two, People, Captivity

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• Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dream, Sleep, Boys

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.38, Hamilton Books

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• Buffaloes are stronger than the lions, but they often fall prey to lions because they hesitate to be courageous and thus run away! Be determined or accept being destroyed!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Running, Fall, Stronger

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• I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right.

  Joanna Lumley

  Order, Lioness, Able

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• I had always imagined Rosa Parks as a stately woman with a bold temperament, someone who could easily stand up to a busload of glowering passengers. But when she died in 2005 at the age of ninety-two, the flood of obituaries recalled her as soft-spoken, sweet, and small in stature. They said she was "timid and shy" but had "the courage of a lion." They were full of phrases like "radical humility" and "quiet fortitude.

  Susan Cain

  Sweet, Humility, Two

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.2, Broadway Books

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• The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother.

  Ilona Andrews

  Brother, Imagination, Vampire

  Ilona Andrews (2015). “Magic Gifts: A Kate Daniels Novella”, p.44, Penguin

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• But that isn't right. The King of Beasts shouldn't be a coward,'" said the Scarecrow. 'I know it,' returned the Lion, wiping a tear from his eye with the tip of his tail. 'It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy. But whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast.' 'Perhaps you have heart disease,' said the Tin Woodman. 'It may be,' said the Lion.

  L. Frank Baum

  Kings, Heart, Eye

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; The Marvelous Land of Oz; Ozma of Oz”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues.

  Aesop

  Men, Different, Might

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• Did you found something? asked she with hope. Yes, this until... Until what...? Until you stick your breasts on my back.And you realize that now I can't think about lions anymore!

  C.C. Hunter

  Thinking, Sticks, Realizing

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• ll K Hamilton Some days the lion eats you, but some times you shove your arm down it's throat and pull it's visera out through it's mouth and kill it. Of course, sometimes it bites your arm off, and then eats you, but you tried, that's what counts. Some days it's not about winning, but about fighting. If you don't try, the lion will most definetely eat you. But sometimes when you put your all into something, and don't give up even when the odds are so against you, you surprise the lion and yourself, and you win.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Apr 04, 2012

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