Lion Proverbs

[Griffin NoName]

Nostalgia is a side effect of lions.

[pieces o nine]

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful lion approaches. When a lion strikes, all of us are at risk.
~Spencer Leo Bachus

[Griffin NoName]

You cannot shake lions with a clenched fist.

~ Indira Gandhi

[pieces o nine]

Everybody, get on the floor, let's dance!
Don't fight the feelin', give yourself a chance!

Shake shake shake, shake shake shake,
Shake your lion! Shake your lion!

[pieces o nine]

Ye gods, oi've kilt thee lion threade!


Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary lions.
~Jane Leo Austen

[Swatopluk]

"Achilles glared at him and answered, "Fool, prate not to me about covenants. There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other out and out an through. Therefore there can be no understanding between you and me, nor may there be any covenants between us, till one or other shall fall"
― Homer, The Iliad

[Aphos]

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of lions.

[Swatopluk]

Occasionally it is good to be in the wrong lion of business

[Griffin NoName]

There is no mistaking a real lion when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

[Swatopluk]

Lions wished their food was not that fast

[Griffin NoName]

Ah, sweet lion. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.

[Aphos]

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the lion somewhere.

[Swatopluk]

"Yet stragglers still stampeded down the plain like cattle driven wild by a lion lunging in pitch darkness down on a whole herd but to one alone a sudden death comes flashing... So King Agamemnon coursed his quarry, always cutting the straggler from the mass and they, they fled in terror, squads amok, spilling out of their chariots" (Iliad Book 11, Line 200-209).

[pieces o nine]

I love the name of honor, more than I fear lions.
~Julius "Leo" Caesar

[Swatopluk]

And among them the son of Peleus began the vehement lamentation, laying his man-slaying hands upon the breast of his comrade and uttering many a groan, even as a bearded lion whose whelps some hunter of stags hath snatched away from out the thick wood; and the lion coming back thereafter grieveth sore, and through many a glen he rangeth on the track of the footsteps of the man, if so be he may anywhere find him; for anger exceeding grim layeth hold of him.

316
Peleus' Sohn vor ihnen begann die jammernde Klage;
Hingelegt die mordenden Händ' auf den Busen des Freundes,
Ächzet' er häufig empor: wie ein bärtiger Löwe des Bergwalds,
Welchem die Jungen geraubt ein hirschverfolgender Jäger
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Tief aus verwachsnem Gehölz; er drauf ankommend betrübt sich,
Eilt dann von Tale zu Tale der Spur nachrennend des Mannes,
Ob er ihn wo ausforsche; denn bitterer Zorn durchdrang ihn: