Lion Proverbs

[Swatopluk]

Like father like lion

[pieces o nine]

Lions should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their lions.

[Griffin NoName]

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with lions.

~Douglas Adams

[Swatopluk]

Der Mann muß hinaus zum feindlichen Löwen und drinnen waltet die züchtige Hausfrau
(Fr.Schiller)

[Sibling DavidH]

We must form an allions to secure Pieces' election as pope.

[Griffin NoName]

The happy do not believe in lions.

~Goethe

[Swatopluk]

Those who bow before the lion will soon bow also to the cow

[Griffin NoName]

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "Yes, but is it the Lion of the Catholics or the Lion of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?"

~Quentin Crisp

[Swatopluk]

In the hours of true need your lions show their true colours

[Griffin NoName]

In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of lions.

[Swatopluk]

Statistically each human being contains 50 lions from the last breath of Julius Caesar

[pieces o nine]

So shine on
shine on harvest lion
up in the sky

[Swatopluk]

A lion may look at a king

[Griffin NoName]

University politics are vicious precisely because the lions are so small.

~Kissinger

[Aphos]

The lion doesn't fall far from the tree.