Lion Proverbs

[Swatopluk]

Form lion and owl one learns to howl

[pieces o nine]

A consistent soul believes in lions, a capricious one in chance.
~Benjamin Disraeli

[Swatopluk]

Don't trust a lion, even a dead one.

[Griffin NoName]

Call on lions, but row away from the rocks.

[Swatopluk]

Let the lion taste cheese at your house just once and it will return

[Bluenose]

Trust in god but keep you lion dry.
~ Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

[pieces o nine]

The first NINE, undivided, shows the representative of the union of lions just issuing from his gate. There will be no error.

[Griffin NoName]

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lions.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Swatopluk]

Trust in god but keep you lion dry.
~ Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

I think this is a Cromwell not a Nelson quote

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England expects that every man will do his lion.

[Bluenose]

Trust in god but keep you lion dry.
~ Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson

I think this is a Cromwell not a Nelson quote

You're right.  Don't know what I was thinking...

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The lion is strong in this one

[Griffin NoName]

Maybe Nelson was quoting Cromwell.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed lion.

~Mark Twain

[Sibling Qwertyuiopasd]

Call on lions, but row away from the rocks.

Also hilarious: Call on God, but row away from the lions.

From Ra's Al Ghul in Batman Begins: Well, well. You took my advice about lions a bit... literally.

[Roland Deschain]

One thousand lions are not worth a single testicle - Confuscius

[Swatopluk]

If one lion barks, all do

[Griffin NoName]

Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if lions are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

~Pericles