Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old lions quotes, lions sayings, and lions proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.John Hanning Speke
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The truth is like a lion. You don't have to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself.St. Augustine
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The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.A.J. Darkholme
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One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man.George Fordyce
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The gait of the lion is relaxed until he is ready to charge. The charge is a series of great springs.Theodore M. Vestal
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Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.Judith Lynne Hanna
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If a lion is not accepted in its own den, it will find no refuge in the rest of the jungle.Wes Fesler
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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.George Bernard Shaw
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Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.Will Cuppy
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A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.George Seferis
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The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.Chanakya
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A lion leads the way and shows others what’s possible.Asad Meah
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Destroy the lion while he is but a whelp. Portuguese Proverb
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Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion. Roman Proverb
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Lion skins were never had cheap. French Proverb
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The lion is known by its claw. Roman Proverb
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The lion is not so fierce as it is painted. Spanish Proverb
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The mouths of lions are handled by their keepers with impunity. Roman Proverb
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The roaring lion kills no game. African Proverb
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Though humbled, a lion will not play with the pig. Hausan Proverb
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To the lion belongs whatever its paw has seized. Egyptian Proverb
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When a lion sleeps, let him sleep.Yiddish Proverb
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When the lion is dead the hares jump upon its carcass. Italian Proverb
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Be a lion at home and a fox abroad.Persian Proverb
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A lion may be beholden to a mouse.Roman Proverb
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions. Daniel Defoe
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Strong is the lion—like a coal / His eye-ball—like a bastion's mole / His chest against his foes. Christopher Smart
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. Sir Winston Churchill
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No horse's cry was that, most like the roar / Of some pained desert lion, who all day / Hath trailed the hunter's javelin in his side, / And comes at night to die upon the sand. Matthew Arnold
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An Englishman, / Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion. George Chapman