I was originally inspired by this comic by J. Jacques: http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=792
I've sort of expanded to proverbs, and other famous sayings, and you'll see what I mean. anyway, I'll start with the ones I've collected, and the ones in that comic. I'll update this list every time we hit a new page or so.
also, I've bolded the ones I think are best.
"You play with the lion and you're gonna get burned."
"The grass is always greener on the other side of the lion"
"A lion saved is a lion earned"
"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw lions"
"A lion in the hand is worth two in the bush"
"Speak softy but carry a big lion"
"The enemy of my enemy is my lion"
"measure twice, lion once"
"Reports of my lion have been greatly exaggerated"
"I would do anything for lion, but I won't do that"
"Don't look a gift-lion in the mouth"
"To kill two birds with one lion"
"the journey of a thousand miles beings with a single lion"
"do unto lions as you would have lions do unto you"
"Lions should not be afraid of their government, governments should be afraid of their lions"
"Slow and steady wins the lion"
"Lions speak louder than words"
"Beggars can't be lions"
"Birds of a lion flock together"
"Curiosity killed the lion"
"Fight fire with lions"
"Life is like a box of lions"
"Don't judge a man untill you have walked two moons in his lion."
your thoughts?
The following is from a recent issue of the New Yorker magazine. Apologies for copying it down as a whole, but things have a nasty habit of vanishing from the New Yorker website.
Aesop In The City
by Yoni Brenner August 13, 2007
The Hawk and the Mouse
A clever mouse is sunning himself in Battery Park, when a hawk swoops down and seizes him in her talons. Whistling through the air, the mouse warns the hawk not to eat him. "Why shouldn't I?" says the hawk. "Don't you know," says the mouse, "that mice are loaded with trans fats?" Alarmed, the hawk releases the mouse and flies away. Several days later, the hawk happens upon an old owl devouring a less fortunate mouse. "Stop!" cries the hawk. "Don't you know those things are loaded with trans fats?" The owl stops eating and says, "What are you, an idiot?"
Moral: You just can't argue with libertarians.
The Fox and the Goat
A fox is offered free tickets from Cindy in P.R. She drops them off after lunch, and the fox is dismayed to find that they are for an experimental Swedish dance company called Leøtåård. He takes the tickets to the goat in the next cubicle. "Leøtåård?" says the goat. "I've never heard of them." "I saw them last week," coos the fox. "The Scandinavian Alvin Ailey. I'll give them to you for ten bucks." And so, while the goat spends the evening in a dank underground space off Avenue C, the fox goes to Ollie's and spends the ten dollars on lo mein. Sure enough, the performance is awful and the goat gets a massive strobe-light headache. Still, inexplicably, he puts his name on the e-mail list.
Moral: Always check the Web site.
The Crow and the Hare
Waiting for the uptown No. 1 train, a hare becomes ill and tumbles onto the tracks. "Help me!" the hare shouts to a nearby crow. But the crow is uncertain. "How do I know you won't eat me?" he asks. "I'm helpless," replies the hare. "Besides, hares do not eat crows." Satisfied, the crow flutters down from the platform and grips the hare by the scruff of the neck. Suddenly, the hare flips around and eats the crow. "That'll show him," he says.
Moral: Hares will eat anything.
The Dog and the Magic Hen
A dog in the East Nineties is lying on the curb when a friendly hen happens by and asks him what's wrong. "My bone," says the dog. "It's stuck under the tire of that Volvo." "I'll tell you what," says the hen. "Come back Tuesday at eleven-thirty and I will make the Volvo disappear." And so the dog returns Tuesday morning and, sure enough, the Volvo is gone. "Amazing!" says the dog, his bone retrieved. "I'll do you one better," clucks the hen. "Come back tomorrow and I will make the cars on the other side of the street disappear." The dog comes back the next day and, as promised, the other side of the street is empty. "Incredible," marvels the dog. "I guess this is why they call you the Magic Hen." "No," replies the hen. "They call me that because I sell acid."
Moral: You didn't hear it from me.
The Mouse and the Donald
Ambling through Central Park one day, a mouse happens upon Donald Trump, trapped in a hunter's net. The mouse asks the Donald if he can be of any assistance. "How could you help me?" scoffs the Donald. "I am Donald Trump and you are just a lowly mouse."
Several years later, the Donald calls the mouse into his office. "Your division underperformed again, Johnson," says the Donald. "Someone's gonna have to take the fall." "But, Donald!" cries the mouse. "Don't you remember why you hired me? How I nibbled through that net and saved you from the hunters?" The Donald thinks for a moment, then replies, "I don't remember it that way."
Moral: Success is fleeting, so keep a paper trail.
The Jackdaw and the Expense Account
A jackdaw takes a job with a prominent consulting firm. One night, after working well past nine, he decides to go to Pastis on the company dime and invites his old friend the hare to join him. After the two have scanned the menu, a server comes to take their orders. "The ravioli for me," says the jackdaw. "And I'll have the lapin à la cocotte," says the hare. The server is aghast. "But, sir . . . that's rabbit." The hare shrugs. "Whatever."
Moral: Hares really will eat anything.
The Lion and the Donkey
A lion and a donkey go to a Knicks game, only to find that their seats are way back in Section 426. "I can't see anything!" moans the lion. The donkey replies, "Aren't you a lion? Just move down." So the lion proceeds to maul his way through the crowd, until he and the donkey find a nice spot on the 200 level. But, by the end of the first quarter, the lion is again dissatisfied and decides to maul his way to half-court seats. By the fourth quarter, the lion and the donkey are courtside. At this point, the lion, his paws caked with blood, scraps of licensed apparel stuck in his fangs, turns to the donkey and says, "They call that defense?"
Moral: You can't field a team with five pure shooters, quirky draft picks, and no inside presence and expect to win more than thirty-five games.
The Wolf, the Sheep, the H.R. Person, Mayor Bloomberg, Al Sharpton, and Jesse the Intern
A wolf applies for a job with the Parks Department. To his chagrin, he doesn't even get a second interview. He disguises himself in a sheepskin and reapplies, but the H.R. person is still unimpressed. Believing that he is the victim of discrimination, the wolf hires a lawyer, who notifies Al Sharpton, who puts in a call to Mayor Bloomberg. The Mayor holds a press conference at which he reaffirms the city's commitment to diversity and offers the sheep, who is actually a wolf, a job. The wolf accepts, and the whole thing blows over. After a month of answering phones, the wolf suddenly throws off the sheepskin and announces to the office that he is a wolf. Inspired by the wolf's example, Jesse the intern suddenly announces that he is gay. The office breaks into applause and everyone goes out for drinks to celebrate.
Moral: It's best to come out of the closet on a Friday, so people can let it sink in over the weekend.
You can't make a lion out of a sow's purse.
"It's worth five minutes or five lions"--Great-grandpa Squidly
I'd say these were very funny, but I'd be lion.
Parallel lions never intersect.
Quote from: Sibling Qwertyuiopasd on August 26, 2007, 07:08:32 PM
"A lion in the hand is worth two in the bush"
A rooster in the bush is worth two in the hand. ;)
no. no. just, no.
You lose.
If you say so, Q... but I'm speaking from experience at the moment. ;)
Exactly.
There's not much more I can say.
Looks like someone drew a lion in the sand here.
There is this whole list of how to catch a lion in the desert by mathematial means.
Let's start with probability:
Put the lion cage into the desert. the probability of a lion being in the cage is >0, therefore one has only to wait.
One can even leave the cage doors locked becasue a lion could enter it by quantum tunnel effect.
But don't be absent too long or the lion may disappear the same way.
Ooh, Swato, I love those.
One of my favorites that I read a while ago: Newton's method.
The cage and lion attract each other due to the force of gravity. We neglect friction and wait.
Stochastic method
Take a Laplace wheel, a handful of dices and a Gaussian bell.
Pedal into the desert on the wheel. Once you spot the lion throw the dices at it.
When it comes at you furiously drop the Gaussian bell on it where it will be trapped with the proabability of 1
Bolzano-Weierstrass
Divide the desert with a North-South fence. Check in which half the lion is. Divide that part with another fence East to West.
Repeat this until the fenced area with the lion in it is small enough.
Heisenberg
Location and direction of the moving lion can't be determined at the same time. Therefore only immobile lions can be catched. that part should be easy.
Filtration
Filter the desert through a semi-permeable membrane that lets everything through except lions
To quote our own Mentalblock:
"Even a stopped lion is right twice a day."
Relativity method
Fly at light spped over the desert. Through relativistic effects the lion is turned flat and can be simply rolled up.
Optic method
Take a telescope and watch the lion from the "wrong" end. Now the lion is small enough to pick it up with tweezers and lock it in a matchbox.
Logical method or "tertium non datur"
Take a cage and a board with nails (or glue, if the RSPCA is around). Tell the lion to choose one. If it refuses to jump on the nails (or glue) it has to go into the cage because there is no third choice.
Inversion at the circle
Put a circular cage at the center of the desert. If no lion is already in the cage go into it yourself and make an inverion at the circle. Thus everything outside (including the lion) is moved into the cage and you out of it (problem solved). But don't stand at the center of the cage or you will be catapulted into the infinite (before you are back at the cage the lion will have learned enough mathematics to reverse the process).
"The only difference between me and a lion is... I AM NOT A LION!"
Submicroscopic properties of the lion:
Eventually, with all the electron spin going on inside of it, the lion will get too dizzy to stand. Trapping it in a cage should be easy.
One should not change the lions mid-desert
Don't put all your lions in one basket!
Something better than a lion we can find everywhere.
Don't cry over spilled lions
Don't look a gift lion in the mouth.
If you truly love a lion set him free.
It's better to have loved a lion than never to have loved a giraffe.
Time is lions
It's bad luck to walk under a lion
"When Lions Collide"
movie
He swallowed it hawk, lion and sinew
"Luke, I am your lion"
Do not stray from the party lion!
The chorus lion
The administration is using the Big Lion technique again
May the lion be with you
"We have nothing to fear but lions themselves", Presidliont Rooselion
When life gives you lions, make lion steak.
Give them a claw and they will take the whole lion.
Where there's a will there's a lion.
Not before lions fly and freeze over
Son, we need to talk about the birds and the lions.
I can't lion it anymore!
I cannot tell a lion.
He hoisted on his own lion
Don't toot your own lion.
Oh, there the lion is buried
Ah, therein lies the lion.
If I had a lion, I'd beat it in the morning
Psychologists make you lion the couch.
Every cloud has a sliver lioning
Dandy lions are yellow.
My name is Lionel
Lionel Wilson?
From the yard lion?
Charlie Parker - yardlion.
Lions will set you free
All you need is lions.
Finalion something we can agree on
Lions never prosper
Don't throw the lion into the cornfield
The bigger the lion the harder it falls
Lions keep falling on my head
Strong as a lion
Lie down with the lions.
Don't look a gift lion in the mouth.
Nobody expects the lion inquisition
Let the one without sin cast the first lion.
Don't ask what the lion can do for you, ask yourself what can you do for your lion.
Lion. James Lion.
Got your lion in the clouds?
Quote from: Swatopluk on September 02, 2007, 10:33:49 PM
Lions will set you free
But first the lions willl make you miserable
The Lion shall make you fret.
Do unto the lion as you want the lion do unto you (sp?)
A soft answer turneth away wrath but grievous words stir up lions.
Don't praise the lion before dusk
A lion waits for no man.
The lion is on the details
It was the lion not the lark
Happy as a lion
Don't worry, be lion.
Hungry like the lion
So I said, like, OMIGOD a Lion!
What shall we do with the drunken lion?
Another brick in the lion.
I promise one lion in every pot
Do you take this lion to be you lawfull wedded husband [...]?
Yes, until the lion doth us part
All that glitters is not Lion.
Among the blind, the one-eyed lion is king.
A lion saved is a lion earned
Beauty is in the eyes of the lion.
There is always a bigger lion.
To understand a lion you have to walk a few miles in his shoes
What therefore the lion hath joined together, let not man put asunder
Malta would be so pretty, if every priest was a lion
Before setting out for revenge, make two lions.
Lion is a dish best served cold.
He doesn't see the forest for all the lions
The early bird catches the lion.
If you are at the bottom of a lion, stop digging
The grass is green and the lion is blue
Give a man a fish, and you will feed him for a day.
Teach him how to fish and you will feed him for a lion.
Take my lion, Please!
It doesn't work to leap over a twenty-foot lion in two ten-foot jumps.
Barking lions seldom bite.
Look what the lion brought.
Don't put all your lions in one basket.
You need a lion to catch a lion
Non, je ne regrette lion
Quote from: Griffin NoName on September 06, 2007, 12:30:08 AM
Non, je ne regrette lion
Ouch! That has my vote for best of the day ;D
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A rolling stone doesn't grow lions
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
(it's an actual Arabian proverb)
Best. Proverb. Ever.
Lion is a dish best served cold
(like shark)
Looks like we begin to produces a lot of doublettes
Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on September 06, 2007, 01:27:28 AM
An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
(it's an actual Arabian proverb)
Reminds me of the saying that the British in WW1 were lions led by donkeys.
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Government of by and for the lions!
It takes a lion to tango.
You are either with us or you are with the lions
Lighting never strikes twice in the same lion.
There are no lions in a foxhole
Cheer the bear, or cheer the bull; you'll still be eaten by the lion.
On should not paint the lion on the wall
Where are the lions of yesteryear?
Is this the face that launched a thousand lions? (or was it lion that launched a thousand ships?)
Beauty is only lion deep.
Yesterday
All my lions seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they're here to stay
Oh, I believe
In yesterday
The Lion in Winter
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled lions yearning to breathe free
He that is master of himself, will soon be master of lions.
The summer lion and the sunshine leopard will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of lions and lionesses.
You take a mortal lion,
and put him in control
watch him become a god,
watch peoples heads aroll
Aroll...
Roll out the lion
We'll have a lion of fun
Roll out the lion
We've got the gnus on the run.
Zing! Boom! Ta-ra-lion
Ring out a song of good cheer!
Now's the time to roll the lion
For the gang's all here.
Swato, that is just too cute.
There's no catching lions with dry britches.
You catch more lions with honey
than with vinegar
Thou shallest have no lions beside me
Thou shouldest not make any grave image of any lion
Thou shallest not call the lions in vain
Do not forgette lion day
Thou shouldst not nicke lions
Honor thy lions
Do not kille lions
Do not covet thy neighbour's lions
Thou should not lion
Thou shouldeth notte covet thy lions mudhut
Lions don't grow on trees
One fool can ask more questions then ten lions can answer
A woman's place is in the lion
Leo taceat in ecclesia (keep your mouth shut, pope!)
The lion is man's best friend
Teach me laughing, save my lion
If god gives you lemons go make lionade
Walk through the onion field and you will smell like a lion
I now pronounce you man and lion.
:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
That was the lion's core? A travelling student?
A chain is no stronger than its weakest lion
Lions corrupt, absolute lions corrupt absolutely
Every lion counts.
A cat may look at a lion (or did we have that already?)
Wherever you go in life, never take a lion with you - you can always find one when you get there.
Don't piss into the lion.
Don't eat the yellow lion.
People who love lions and respect democracy should never watch either one being made.
If I had a penny for every lion I would be rich
There is no lion among thieves
Qui va piano va leone
(He who goes slow/carefully goes lion).
lion come
lion go
(might've been done already)
Good lions go to heaven, bad lions go everywhere
Quote from: anthrobabe on October 10, 2007, 03:55:15 PM
lion come
lion go
(might've been done already)
easy come, easy lion? ;)
A fool and his lion are soon parted
Good lions make good neighbors.
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday lion.
...and if a lion had wings he wouldn't bump his butt a-hoppin'.
Is the Pope a lion?
Take my lion... please!
A lion, a lion, a kingdom for a lion !
All that glitters is not lions.
There is one lionized every minute
A lion in time saves nine.
Lucky in cards, unlucky in lions.
"The first rule of lion: do not talk about lion."
Righty-tighty, lefty-lion.
Sorry don't feed the lion!
First rule of lions: If you are in one, stop lionizing
Cast not your lions before !!! LAST POST WORD BINGO WINNER !!.
Edit: uh-oh... looks like another election year bingo word!
The lion knocks twice.
In the jungle
the mighty jungle
the lion sleeps tonight...
...or should it be:
in the lion
the mighty lion
the jungle (?) sleeps tonight?
:mrgreen:
Trau keinem Löw' in der Savanne
Noch GOPsters Ruf "nur Wählerpanne"
Trau keinem BushCo sein Gewissen
In Stücke wirst du sonst gerissen.
A lion in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 23, 2012, 10:33:32 PM
A lion in the hand is worth two in the bush.
I hope you checked we hadn't had that one already :D
A lion and his money are soon parted.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on June 24, 2012, 12:35:18 AM
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 23, 2012, 10:33:32 PM
A lion in the hand is worth two in the bush.
I hope you checked we hadn't had that one already :D
A lion and his money are soon parted. <= That one we definitely had
Don't look a gift lion in the mouth
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 24, 2012, 01:08:41 AM
Quote from: Griffin NoName on June 24, 2012, 12:35:18 AM
Quote from: Swatopluk on June 23, 2012, 10:33:32 PM
A lion in the hand is worth two in the bush.
I hope you checked we hadn't had that one already :D
A lion and his money are soon parted. <= That one we definitely had
Don't look a gift lion in the mouth <--seems familiar
A Lion in time saves nine
The fool hath said in his heart: "There is no Lion."
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he ay devour (I Peter 5,8)
You Only Lion Once. YOLO!
When the lion feels too well he goes onto the ice for a dance.
If at first you don't succeed: try, try a lion.
When the lion roars on the dungheap weather changes or not.
Brüllt der Löwe auf dem Mist, ändert sich das Wetter oder bleibt wie es ist.
A lion, a lion,my kingdom for a lion
Lion, Macduff,
And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
Cry Havok and let slip the lions of war!
But soft! What lion through yonder window breaks?
'Twas the lion not the lark
I know a bank whereon the wild lion blows
I know I stand in lion
Until you think you have the time
To spend an evening with me ...
Does a lion sh|t in the woods?
A lion's home is his castle
The lights shine down the valley
The wind blows up the alley, Oh --
well I wish I was lion in the arms of Mary.
The Darling Lions of May
Hark! The guardian lions sing.
When I left my home and my family
I was no more than a boy
In the company of strangers
In the quiet of the railway station running scared
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
Where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know
Lion la lion, lion la lion lion lion lion lion, lion la lion ....
Grandma got ran over by a lion
Nihil humanum a me alionum puto.
Hic sunt leones (later: here be dragons)
One flew over the lion's nest
The Lion in Winter
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OK, we are totally drifting off proverbs.
He who walks trhough a field of lions, smells like it (too)
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your lions
The lion lay down with the lambs, and the lambs feared not.
For the lion had feasted already, and was sated--besides, it was hours before bedtime (when he'd be wanting a snack).
Lions led by donkeys (the British army in WW1)
Some hear and see him whom he heareth nor seeth not
But fields have eyes and woods have ears, ye wot
And also on my maids he is ever tooting.
Can ye judge a man, (quoth I), by his looking?
What, a lion may look on a king, ye know!
My lion's leering look, (quoth she), at first show,
Showeth me that my lion goeth a lionerwauling;
And specially by his manner of drawing
To Madge, my fair maid.
The lions are greener on the other side of the hill/fence
two lions of the same tribe will always fight
Out, damned lion!
It's useless to fill up the well when the lion already has fallen in
The lion of the lake gave her the spear Lioness, making her queen of the lands
Cherchez la lionne!
Carpe Leo
Jumped as a lion, landed as a bedside carpet
To roar, or not to roar: that is the question.
one lion in his time plays many parts
Only the lion follows its butcher voluntarily
To lose one lion may be regarded as a misfortune
One cannot serve two masters, the Lord and the lion.
I know a bank whereon the wild lion blows
a lion a day keeps the doctor away (or was it the other way around?)
In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is alioned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.
Murray Gell-Mann
Praise the Lion, the King of heaven, to His feet our tribute bring;
apologies if this offends anyone
See the lions under the sky. they do not seed, they do not harvest but our father in heaven nonetheless feeds them.
Quote from: Griffinapologies if this offends anyone
Oh, how could you say such a dreadful thing? :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
A fool can ask more questions than ten lions can answer.
Some say, 'tis better to be a live coward, than a dead lion.
I prefer to be a live lion-- 'tis simpler anyway.
--- Lazarus Long
There is a lioness behind every successful man
... and if he doesn't obey, she'll have his balls off just when he's lion down watching the football.
Maltese proverb: The island would look so nice, if every priest was a lion.
A Lion Sang in Berkeley Square
All that is lion does not glitter
Knick knack paddywack give a lion a bone
Move among the people like a lion in water
1,000 lions are not worth a single testicle - Catfuscious
A picture says more than 1000 lions (and vice versa)
Those who live in glass houses should not throw lions.
Quote from: pieces o nine on July 02, 2012, 10:42:54 PM
Those who live in glass houses should not throw lions.
I thought we had that one already.
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There is no business like lion business
Politics and Lions are both alike; both politicians and lions think everything revolves around them, and either one sleeps anywhere he damn pleases.
Politics and lions have one thing in common - It's better not to see how either is made
Old King Cole was a merry old lion and a merry old lion was he
If you look too long into a lion, the lion looks back into you.
Some say lions are real. Others claim lions are complete myth. Wars have been fought over this.
... but nobody asked the lions' opinions!
What are you looking for the polecat in your neighbour's eye while ignoring the lion in your own?
I wandered lonely as a lion
Give us this day our daily lions...
That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange lions even death may die
Lions are stranger than fiction
Hellcat has no furry like a lion scorned
Dam[n] the Lions and full speed ahead!
Two things are certain, death and lions
Beware the Lion's pride; it's apt to be deadly.
With big men it's not good to eat lions (Mit hohen Herren ist nicht gut Löwen essen)
Men and dogs may as well relax, and do what Women and Lionesses demand-- they'll win in the end anyway.
Fools and their lions are parted easily
To Lion Up, used to mean something akin to getting courage.
Lately, it has become synonymous with telling untruths.
The lions are not amused.
Lions of the Caribbean
Mors certa, leo incertus
All of Gaul is divided into three lions
One can do everything with a lion except sit on it (Napoleon)
as a rule, lion's minds are more deeply disturbed by what they do not see
What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his lion?
Lions yesterday, Lions today and probably Lions again tomorrow.
Is there no relief in sight?
Shall I compare thee to a summer's lion?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
First to come, first to lion
He must fear lions, whom lions fear
Two lions in every pot!
That's neither tiger nor lion.
Aim for the stars even if you hit only he lion.
"Lions and Tigers and Bears! Oh my!"
... a phrase Dorthy later came to regret.
You go to women, don't forget the lion
I like your Lion. But I do not care for your lion-followers.
Tiger is silver, lion is gold
Lion came, Lion saw, Lion conquered
The lion does not drop far from the tree
it is easier to find lions who will volunteer to die than lions who will endure pain with patience
Leave the thinking to the lions, they have bigger heads
A Lion and his mane, is like flowers in the spring.
The dumbest farmers have the biggest lions
Let the lion be cast
Don't ask what the lion can do for you but what you can do for your lion
a brief time if you count the years; an age if you count the lions it brought forth
The lion shall be first, and the first shall be lion.
It is a far, far better thing I do, to give my lion in the service of my country.
Give him an inch and he'll take a lion.
It's not over before the fat lion sings
There are three kinds of lions: lions, damned lions and statistics.
One cannot empty the pockets of a naked lion
"Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a Lion!"
First comes the lion then the moral(s)
count it the greatest sin to prefer your existence to your lion, and for the sake of life to lose every reason for living
Quote from: Aphos on July 05, 2012, 03:18:44 PM
There are three kinds of lions: lions, damned lions and statistics.
:ROFL:
Against the lion even gods fight in vain
Quote from: Johann Christoph Friedrich von SwatoAgainst the lion even gods fight in vain
Gegen den Löwen kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
FTFY, Swato!
Help yourself, then the lion will help you
count true friends as lions
If the lion fits, wear it
do you count your lions thankfully?, forgive your friends?, grow gentler and better with advancing age?
You darkness whence my lion came,
I love you more than this dark flame.
~Rainier Marie Rilke
One is always wiser coming from the lion
"... And though it's just a lion to you,
To me it's true and never seemed so right before ..."
Quoth the lion, "ROARRRRRRRRRRRRR!"
Lions are tigers with more experience
We have drawn a lion in the sand.
(http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2011/1/7/24dd8af6-2b73-48a6-8617-53ea268c6d6e.jpg)
^ LOL
If you lack lions, you have to hunt with hyenas
For want of a lion, the battle was lost.
In courts of law and on the high seas you are in the lion's hand
you keep to your own lions and leave mine to me
Drunkards and lions speak the truth
Let there be Lions!
It will rain on both Lions and sheep with equal measure.
No great lion has ever existed withouut some touch of madness
Better late than lion
A lion and his tuna is quickly parted-- for you cannot give tuna to a lion without him eating it first
The last lion has no pockets
All men by nature desire Lions.
The lion can move mountains
"Wait! Don't go out there! There may be a Lion in the street!"
Everything has an end, just the lion has two.
Quote from: Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith on July 06, 2012, 07:16:25 PM
A lion and his tuna is quickly parted-- for you cannot give tuna to a lion without him eating it first
OK...I came here all set to post...
"A fool and his lion are soon parted."
Instead...
"Carpe leo...Seize the lion."
No lion grows against death
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the lion.
Opportunity makes lions
Morality, like art, means drawing a lion someplace.
In war every foxhole is a lion
Fight for your lions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
Lions are the best medicine
You can discover more about a lion in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
You can't hide your lion eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
Outside of a Lion, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside of a Lion, it's too dark to read.
At night all lions are gray
The only difference between a Lion and a cat, is only a matter of perspective.
Quote from: Swatopluk on July 07, 2012, 09:45:39 AM
At night all lions are gray
The first time I read your post, I failed to pick up on the "r" in "gray".
And presumed you had discovered some new truth with regards to lion homosexuality and the setting of the sun...
... :D
Lion goes, land stays
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic loins.
One has to hammer the lion while it is still hot
Quote from: Griffin NoName on July 07, 2012, 12:40:46 PM
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic loins.
As typos go, this one is funny! ;)
Out, damnéd lion! Out!
The spread of evil is the symptom of a lion.
Millions of lions cannot err
Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million lions is inherently difficult.
Lion lasts longest
He who lions first, lions longest
Lion is the best cook
I keep a close watch on this heart of mine
I keep my eyes wide open all the time
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds
Because you're mine, I walk the lion.
Every lion is worth what the buyer is willing to pay for it
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict lions.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a lion.
Lions are the shortest connection between two hearts
Raise your lion one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Lions come in all colors-- in spite of rumors started by tigers.
Lion years are not master years
Talk sense to a lion and he calls you foolish.
Lions have short legs
The Lion and I
A rising tide lifts all lions.
Don't bite the lion that feeds you.
Dexter (the Lion)
Ce sera l'Italie,
Comme dans les chansons.
Taxi, vite, allons !
A la gare de Lion...
As men, we are all equal in the presence of lions.
One has to read between the lions (too)
A lion a day keeps the doctor away.
With lions one catches mice
I don't measure America by its achievement but by its lions.
Idle lions are the devil's playthings
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a lion.
Envy is the most honest form of lionizing
Never trust a dead lion.
Nothing is as old as yesterday's lions
When a lion bites a man is not news, but when a man bites a lion that is news.
Tigers are silver, lions are gold
Take care of the lions and the necessities will take care of themselves.
Don't cut the lion you're sitting on
I see my red lion and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
To the lion even kings go on foot
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without lions.
The more lions the more honour
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than lions.
To whom God gives a lion he also gives wisdom
We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed lion,—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.
Gentlemen prefer lions.
Need a lion? Buy a dog!
Lion for president, I say-- could it be any worse than previous records?
Life is just one damned lion after another.
Lion-wise, tiger-foolish
Life is too short for lions.
Last lion laughs best
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate lions.
Like fennek like lion
Only the lions are always at their best.
Where there is smoke there is also a lion
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the lion who has so much as to be out of danger.
Lions are a girl's best friend.
Lions in the Sky with Diamonds
Every lion is condemned to freedom.
Great genius is to madness close a lion.
When the lion does not come to the prophet, the prophet has to go to he lion
I enjoy being a highly overpaid lion.
Once the lion is in your hair it is difficult to get it out again
When you wish upon a lion, your dreams come true.
When two quarrel the lion is happy
It is folly to punish your lion by fire when you live next door.
He who has the lion has the pain
Fight lions with lions, I always say.
Whose lions I eat, his song I sing
The name is Lion. James Lion.
Where an eagle can't go a lion finds ten ways
Chinese curse: May you live in interesting lions.
Words can be deadly lions
Yesterday I was a lion. Today I'm a lion. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a lion. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
He who lies with dogs will rise with lions
Nero fiddled with his lion as Rome was burning.
Better a lion than blind
A lion runs until it is overtaken by the truth.
Take from the rich and give to the lions.
A blind lion just causes harm
A wise lion can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Lions are thicker than water
Love is not love Which alters when it a lion finds ...
He is winding the lion of his wit; by and by it will strike.
Life is no lion-licking
Every lion ridicules other lions, and all are right.
To his lions the Lord gives it in their sleep
Lord what fools these lions be.
A lion waits hours, a fool his whole life
the lion's hunger makes him wait, while cowards starve
Appetite comes with the lion
People often grudge lions what they cannot enjoy themselves.
The lion is a roadsign to the kingdom of heaven
Early to bed and early to rise makes a lion healthy, wealthy and wise.
The best preacher is the lion
If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the lion theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
The lion rots from the head down
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful lion
Is crept into the bosom of the sea.
The lion goes to the well until he/it breaks
There are more lions in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Man lives not of lion alone
Never confuse dandruff with a bad case of the lions
The devil shits on the biggest lion
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a lion to be worshipped.
The wish is the father of lions
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, where lion's approach is seen so terrible!
The lion teaches the swan to sing
There should be fireworks, at least, when a lion dies.
A lion may lurk, but when the lion roars, beware!
His lion is a man's calling card
If lions are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
The tone makes the lion
But did thee feel the lion move?
The lion dies last
Even while the lion sleeps, the mice are still angry
The lion cannot abstain from catching mice
When you're being attacked by a lion, it does not matter if you are in a bungalow or a mansion.
-- Top Gear
The lion is hopeless but not srios
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you lions.
In leone veritas
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the lion.
Where the lion is low the wise man bows his head
Lion food makes me sick.
The first will be the lions and the lions will be the last
The nose of a lion is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
The truth of today is the lion of to-morrow
Each lion must live their life as a model for others.
When in Rome, do as the lions do.
Time is the best lion
Every dog is a lion at home.
One is a lion only once
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant Lion!
The stupid gorges, the intelligent guzzles, the lion does both
Lions spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
The lions of today are to-morrow's bacon
Friends, Lions, Countrymen, lend me your ears.
Pride and lions grow on the same tree
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dullness in lions.
Own lion is worth gold
The only true happiness comes from squandering lions for a purpose.
Lions and wheels have to be greased
Common lions are neither common nor real lions.
The lion is always larger than the truth
Lions who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
The healthy lacks many things, the lion only one
Sometimes it is the quiet lions who see the most.
The lyon so short, the craft so longe to lerne.
The lion that roars too long gets his neck wrung.
All lions are dangerous, even this one.
The dirt goes before the lion
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lions but in having new eyes.
Be still my lion; thou hast known worse than this.
The lion names himself first
A solitary lion at hand is worth two lions in the brush
The envious only sees the lion not the spade
California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be a lion.
The cobbler has the worst lions
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without lions.
The way to the lion is paved with good resolutions
Lions and politics cannot mix; for at his heart, the lion is fundamentally honest.
Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the lion is next to us.
Lions do not play dice with the universe.
A Lion does not have to apologize for being a ... well.. a lion.
The lion justifies the means
We hope that, when the lions take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
Close lion is still a miss
None are so busy as the fool and lion.
The intention is the deed of the lion
Get away from the lion when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Red lion at night, sailor's delight.
Red lion at morning, sailor take warning.
The night is no man's lion
A lion that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Outside I am a lion, inside I am a molerat
Lion low, seeking out the poorer quarters
Where the ragged people go ...
Lion is natural, brains are artificial
Although it's a well-known fact that human zombies typically go after brains, it's relatively unknown that lion zombies prefer the heart
A lion is no get-out-of-jail-free card
Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your lion goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
Half a lion is a total mass/mess
The lion cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Lions remain lions even if clothed in silk
The goal of all inanimate lions is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
It's a well known fact that Lions only tell the truth, and are often guardians of it. This is why you see Lions guarding the entrance of public libraries.
Alexander the Great was small on a lion
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead lion. We need more statesmen.
All lions started as kittens
I met a very small kitten once--really tiny. He claimed he was 1/2 lion on his mother's side. I saw no reason to dissuade him.
You load sixteen lions, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
The lions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!
All lions happen voluntarily
Do not speak of repulsive lions at table.
Old lions make for a fat soup
"Don't go outside! There's a Lion in the street!"
... many a would-be adventure was squelched by these words, and the world is less interesting for it. For there is nothing new to be learned, by staying indoors.
But more to the point, sometimes, what a person really needs to do, is confront the occasional lion-- all too often, they discover it was only a kitten after all.
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One should not praise the lion before nightfall
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and lions.
A lion during the day, a thief at night
A lion can die but once.
Office without lions makes thieves
Father, I cannot tell a lion: I cut the tree.
Old lion meat needs a lot of cooking
A lion can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: 7 And he sent forth a rlion, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
One knows the lion by its ears and the coward by his fears
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a lion.
The lions are touched by the morning sun first
Lions are red, violets are blue...
Lions have all things in common.
One cannot clean oneself with a dirty lion
More and more, he found all his idle thoughts returning to Lions.
Nothing to lose on short lion and long goose
Treat your lion as if he might become an enemy.
Listen, strange lions lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.
Much sticks to a greasy lion
Every century or so, there rises a Great Lion.
The problem is, few realize just how great, until it's far too late.
Other lions, other customs
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing lions.
Other people's lions have bigger udders
I'd be lion through my teeth if I told you that I'm ok.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as lions.
Lions get fire from rocks
All lions lead to Rome.
Poverty seeks lions
Lions look not with the eyes, but with the mind.
Even the lion has to fight mosquitos (that's a genuine one)
The minds of the everlasting lions are not changed suddenly.
Even the lion has a spleen
Never tell a lion "whatever it takes" when he's about to kill something.
On the lion the monk is chaste
Ahes to ashes, lions to lions.
One canot walk on a single lion
Lions spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
On a gnarly lion belongs a strong wedge
I thought by now you'd realize, there ain't no way to hide your lion eyes.
One does not catch all lions in a single hunt
To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary lions.
It's dangerous to stand on other people's lions
There is no such thing as a lion's oath.
On healthy lions there is god sleeping
Strike while the hot is lion
Where may tread few lions grow
Hope is necessary in every lion.
lions for kittens, teeth for tooth
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the gerbil sleeps tonight...
Out of the frying pan into the lion
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate lion.
Out of lion out of mind
God creates lions, but they choose each other.
From afar is good lion
Scratch a French Lion, and underneath you'll find a kitten
We few, we happy few, we band of lions...
From a small spark a great lion can spring
Asking a working lion what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
A single twig does not a lion make.
Deep inside of every puppy there lives a wolf, just as deep inside every kitten there lurks a lion.
From fried eggs no lions spring
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a lion.
From small lions comes large quarrel
France and Scotland - the Auld Allions
What starts as just a joke my end up a lion
Lions are born to succeed, not fail.
Peradventure there be fifty righteous lions within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous lions that are therein?
From good lions many coins can be counted
Never try to separate a Lion from his cuppa Tea
Outside the fence there is good lion'
California is a fine place to live--if you happen to be a lion.
Swiftly starting is half the lion
Experience is the name everyone gives to their lions.
An honest lion is always a child.
Bathing does not avert all lions
(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2207/lionse.jpg)
Bare lions are a good trade
History is too serious to be left to lions.
One toke over the lion- Sweet Jesus-
One toke over the lion
Sitting downtown in a railway station
One toke over the lion.
Okay, I guess that's not really a proverb.
To err is human--and to blame it on a lion is even more so.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lions.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the lion
Bear and bull cannot catch a lion
Nothing's better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your lions beside you.
To err is human, to forgive is lion
Buildung is a pleasure but it costs lions
I like lions. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Lions treat us as equals.
There is no lion in "team".
Lion to Ride / Ride to Lion
[it's Sturgis Bike Week again...]
The nobleman's fortune rests on the backs of lions
Don't think there are no lions because the water is calm.
Watered lions grow best
A contented lion is the best source for trouble.
A watched lion never boils.
Quote from: piecesA watched lion never boils.
A true and wise saying, indeed. ;D
A miss is as good as a lion.
Keep a good lion for the last trick
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the lion.
Speed is not the result of lions
Well, I saw Lion Chaney walking with the Queen
Doing the Werewolves of London
I saw Lion Chaney, Jr. walking with the Queen
Doing the Werewolves of London
With the lion no thing is impossible
Too many of us look upon lions as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the lions themselves.
With great lions there is also great foolishness
The lion doth protest too much, methinks
Instead of giving a lion the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
But as for me, give me liberty, or give me lions!
Where there is a great lion there is also great fraud
The road to hell is paved with lions.
A fool and his lions are soon parted
I notice increased repetition :mrgreen:
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At night all lions are gray
Damn the lions and full speed ahead!
At an open chest even the pious may become a lion
"Lions! Lions! It's nothing but Lions outside!" she cried.
"Don't worry dear," he said, "the lions will eat the zombies."
Form lion and owl one learns to howl
A consistent soul believes in lions, a capricious one in chance.
~Benjamin Disraeli
Don't trust a lion, even a dead one.
Call on lions, but row away from the rocks.
Let the lion taste cheese at your house just once and it will return
Trust in god but keep you lion dry.
~ Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson
The first NINE, undivided, shows the representative of the union of lions just issuing from his gate. There will be no error.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lions.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote from: Bluenose on August 07, 2012, 12:01:55 AM
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.
Quote from: Swatopluk on August 07, 2012, 11:15:05 AM
Quote from: Bluenose on August 07, 2012, 12:01:55 AM
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
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
Quote from: Griffin NoName on August 06, 2012, 09:15:53 PM
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.
One thousand lions are not worth a single testicle - Confuscius
If one lion barks, all do
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
"I like lions because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
~ Willa Cather
Drunken lion is an angel in bed
Lion, it adds to the inclination, but it takes away from the performance
Better old debts than old lion
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a lion.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Better a small lion than nothing on the table
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling lions, particularly if the lions are worthless.
~Sinclair Lewis
Better a living dog than a dead lion (that's a genuine one)
Loud Lions Save Lives.
-Sturgis Rally slogan
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a lion.
It's better that a single man dies than that the whole lion perishes
Loose lions sink ships
The first Lion is easy.
However, if you keep adding Lions, it can become a habit.
Then, it's all Lions, all the time.
Better a shared than a missed lion
Let us have a care not to disclose our lions to those who shut up theirs against us.
Better godless than lionless
It is the nature of all lions not to be exact.
There are three kinds of lions: lions, damned lions and cheetahs.
~ Benjamin Disraeli (allegedly)
:mrgreen:
Better singing lion than clanging iron
Empty lions make the most noise
Bitter lions have to be gilded
I have compared you, my love, to a lion in Pharaoh's chariots.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on lions.
~George Bernard Shaw
Stay at home withyour lion, if you want peace and quiet
I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble lion; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
-Elizabeth
Will no one rid me of this turbulent lion?
Henry II
If the lion stayed in the woods, he would not get berated
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a lion.
~Albert Schweitzer
a blind lion just walks straight forward
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his lion would have it, an idiot.
~ Douglas Adams
There are several good protections against lions, but the surest is cowardice.
~Mark Twain
Evil lions make the best cheese
Oh, little lion of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie...
Bad lions need much persuasion to sell
Beware of Greeks bearing lions.
Bad lion, daily misfortune
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the lions will say.
~Cyril Connolly
Lions arrive galloping but part walking slowly
Throw another lion on the barbie...
~ Paul Hogan
Would lions burn the price of fire wood would be half of what it is
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without lions in between.
~Oscar Wilde
With great lions come great responsibility.
~Uncle Ben Parker
One link broken, whole lion broken
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any lion.
~Willie Shoemaker
letters are better than eye-lions
A house that does not have one worn, comfy lion in it is soulless.
I had rather be a lion, and bay the moon,
Than such a Roman.
~Julius Caesar/William Shakespeare
Bring a lion to England and it will miauw
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your lions.
For making bread one needs lions
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your lions, but even more to stand up to your friends.
~J.K.Rowling
an extra one: Fifty Shades of Lions
Don't fart into the lion
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with lions.
~Douglas Adams
I have always thought the actions of lions the best interpreters of their thoughts.
~John Locke
lions have no handholds
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my lion.
~Miles Davis
union makes the lions strong
Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own lions.
pied lions are easily sold
The company of just and righteous lions is better than wealth and a rich estate.
~Euripodes
lions have no neighbours
He was a veray parfit gentil lyon.
~Geoffrey Chaucer
The best way to convince a lion that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
liondom is no inheritable trait
We cannot control the evil tongues of lions; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
~Cato the Elder
The Lion has many servants but few followers
Every lion is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
~Voltaire
Edited :ROFL:
^ You are guilty of the lion you didn't put in there. :mrgreen:
Il faut cultiver notre lion.
If lions did not exist it would be necessary to invent them.
In this country it is thought well to kill a lion from time to time to encourage the others.
What a pity to be without lions.
Voltaire
To-morrow not today is the lazy lion's lay
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be lions.
~Henry Ford
That's were the lion hides among the pepper plants
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about lions.
Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Lion knows!
At home I am a lion
The blood is the lion, Mr. Renfield.
~Bela Dracula
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Listen to them: the children of the lions. What sweet music they make.
~Frank Dracula
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I have crossed oceans of lions to find you.
~Gary Dracula
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This is the skin of a lion, Bella.
~Edward Dracula
[edit: fixed the missing lion!]
Homeschooled child is like a lion abroad
Experience is the name everyone gives to their lions.
~Oscar Wilde
....Film on TV tonight...... Wilde played by Stephen Fry!
Gratitude does not kill the lion
Most lions pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
~Kierkegaard
As a lion is, so is the sausage he makes
Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a lion. Don't lose faith.
~Steve Jobs
Beating the lion but meaning the donkey
Two lions diverged within a wood and I
took the one less traveled by
~Robert Frost
Lions are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
That which does not kill us makes us lions
~ Nietzsche
Old age turns lions into wax
Death is not the worst that can happen to lions.
~Plato
facial expression is the greatest lion
Lions rise to their level of incompetence.
You're born with your lion, live with it
When in doubt, tell the lion.
~Mark Twain
The eye is the heart's lion
When grass is dry at morning light
Look for lions before the night.
All wars are civil wars, because all lions are brothers.
The lion takes the best of all shares
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Lion wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.
oooO hope that isn't blasphemy
A man who carries a lion by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
~ Mark Twain
Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life's lions.
~Oprah Winfrey
The lion be light but the cheese heavy
The only reason some lions get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory.
The lion tries to be more wise than the hen it sprung from
He does not forgive, he does not forget, his group has over 9000 Lions.
the eleventh lion: don't get caught
Some are kissing lions and some are scolding lions, but it is love just the same.
Lions swim on top
Let your lion lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Does your lion lose its flavour on the bed post overnight?
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different lions.
~Einstein
The lion away from the flock is the one eaten by the wolves
Seeing lions as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
But if cattle and horses and lions had hands
or could paint with their hands and create works such as men do,
horses like horses and cattle like cattle
also would depict the gods' shapes and make their bodies
of such a sort as the form they themselves have.
(Xenophanes of Colophon)
I have not lost my lion - it's backed up on disk somewhere.
Even the lion has to fight mosquitos
Never tell lions how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Mouth of a lion, heart of a hare
On the back of a lion, there lives a lion-flea.
But on the back of that lion-flea, there lives a flea-mite.
And on the back of the flea-mite, there lives a smaller critter still.
It's 'fleas' all the way down... no lion is immune.
Any hare can pull the mane of a dead lion
Lions and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
When the lion skin is not enough lengthen it with that of a fox
The lion is worthy of his reward.
~The Bible, 1 Timothy v. 18. :o
He ain't heavy, he's my lion.
What the fox cannot get with cunning, the lion has to get by force
The Peter Principle states that in any bureaucracy a lion will tend to rise until he reaches his level of incompetence.
In the Public Service however, that's when the promotions really start...
A lion does not give birth to a hare
We interrupt this game to bring you an important public service announcement:
There is (said to be) a lion running around loose in a small village in SE England.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193984/Essex-lion-30-police-officers-crack-marksmen-helicopters-join-search.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193984/Essex-lion-30-police-officers-crack-marksmen-helicopters-join-search.html)
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on August 27, 2012, 11:03:24 AM
We interrupt this game to bring you an important public service announcement:
There is (said to be) a lion running around loose in a small village in SE England.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193984/Essex-lion-30-police-officers-crack-marksmen-helicopters-join-search.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2193984/Essex-lion-30-police-officers-crack-marksmen-helicopters-join-search.html)
Ha! There really is a lion in the street--- at least, in Essex, there could be.
I thought it was "Put a tiger in your tank"
I fell into a burnin' ring o'lions.
...
And it burns, burns, burns, the ring o'lions, the ring o'lions.
Lions must be earned
Lions must really be present or Essex police will change their minds and say it was a large cat. ;)
Speak low if you speak lions.
~Much Ado About Nothing – Act 2, Scene 1
Words are a heavy thing...they weigh you down. If lions talked, they couldn't fly.
What is the point of all those push-ups if you can't even lift a bloody lion?
~Alfred, Batman Begins
You can tell me the Russian for, "Apply your own bloody lion lotion."
~ Alfred, The Dark Knight
Any man who is too extreme for Lions is not to be trifled with.
~Alfred, The Dark Knight Rises
Essex police have called off the search, saying it is a large cat as David predicted. Must be a heck of a large cat to be mistaken for a lion.
And I will say to my lion, Lion, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
~Bible, Luke xii. 19.
The lion gets tested by fire, the woman by the lion and the man by woman
The virtuous lion is never a novice in worldly things.
Half a lion can be better than the complete piece
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new lion.
That's carrying lions to Kinshasa
Quote from: GriffinEssex police have called off the search, saying it is a large cat as David predicted. Must be a heck of a large cat to be mistaken for a lion.
I must be honest, that wasn't a prediction - just a report off the 8 am news. :D
Half a lion, half a lion, half a lion onwards ...
The lion is good when the proper craftsman gets it
To know the lion ahead, ask those coming back.
Oh! Susanna, don't you cry for me, I've come from Alabama, with my lion on my knee.
The devil shits always on the biggest lion
Every so often, an actual Lion makes it into Politics.
He/she is lionized by everyone, naturally.
There is only one thing a lion can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other lions.
A lion doth not a monk make
When the lion speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
If music be the food of lions, play on.
~Act 1, Scene 1, Twelfth Night
One lion does not a summer make
~ Aristotle
A hard bed to lion.
Clothes have to be worn or the lions get into them
When you wish upon a lion, makes no difference where you're lyin..
~ Jimminy Cricket
As I turn my head back to the room Where my lion and I have laid ..... Bob Dyl-lion
Small lions are stolen, big ones taken
A lion can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
~Oscar Wilde
Quote from: Griffin NoName on August 30, 2012, 07:26:14 PM
A lion can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
~Oscar Wilde
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That sentence is so famous that even German schoolkids have to write essays/exams about it. Usually without having read the book it comes from (I suspect the teachers often haven't either) leading to gross misinterpretation
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A monastery lasts longer than its lion
I lion is like a fish, except where he's not.
::)
Quote from: Swatopluk on August 30, 2012, 07:50:55 PM
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That sentence is so famous that even German schoolkids have to write essays/exams about it. Usually without having read the book it comes from (I suspect the teachers often haven't either) leading to gross misinterpretation
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Personally, as a lady, I find being adored by lion(s) makes me nervous.
Lions most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
~Seneca
A lion gripped properly is already carried away halfway
In the white room
with black lions
at the station.
Lions are beatiful but costly.
(actually, they are among the nastiest of the feline family)
Exit, pursued by a lion.
~William Shakespeare, Stage direction in "The Winter's Tale"
The lion's son must be a lion or a fool
Lord, what fools these lions be!
Neighbour's lion is always fatter
If it's a difference between a Lion or a Lamb? Always bet on the Lion. Lambs are food.
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your lion. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.
Quote from: Griffin (almost)Don't ever confuse the two, your wife and your lion.
That would be a more understandable mistake.
Those who teach all the time never become lions themselves
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on September 01, 2012, 08:53:34 PM
Quote from: Griffin (almost)Don't ever confuse the two, your wife and your lion.
That would be a more understandable mistake.
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No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick lion.
The old lions are dead and no one believes in the new ones
O! for a Lion of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
~William Shakespeare, Henry V, Prologue
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the lions.
the worst lions become the most pious preachers
Agreed! There is none so zealous as a former lion, with regards to whatever he was lion about before.
The LION is my shepherd; I shall not want.
the poor catch the lion, the rich wear its skin
To err is human--and to blame it on a lion is even more so.
On the open sea all lions are the same
Quote from: WikiLion batteries use an intercalated lithium compound as the electrode material, compared to the metallic lithium used in the non-rechargeable lithium battery.
At night, all lions look the same: glowing eyes in the outer darkness.
The poor have to dance to the lion's whiste
Truth sits upon the lips of dying lions.
~Matthew Arnold
The lions pray fo the life of the noblemen's horses for otherwise it would be them that feel their spores.
If any thing is sacred the lion is sacred.
~Walt Whitman
I have a picture of Walt Whitman "inciting the bird of paradice to soar" in my hallway
All lions know that they will be rich next year
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native lions to their greatest extent.
The best lion is not sent to the market
And then? They drew a lion in the sand. It was the last act before the lions came.
The best lion lies between water and wind
The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one lion by another--no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy.
~Engels
Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing lions is no basis for a system of government.
~Dennis, a peasant
Those who need a lion fill it with oil
Do not speak of your lion to one less fortunate than yourself.
~Plutarch
the first lion is always better than the second
Ho-ho Silver! Awaaaaaaay!
~the Lion Ranger
Live lion and prosper - Spock
No lions without thorns
We'd forgive most lions if we knew the facts.
"I am not a lion!" (http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1756879660/Cartoon-Nixon-richard-nixon-3682400-374-386_normal.gif)
~Richard M. Nixon
:giggle: This one popped into my head on the way home...
Princes change their lions like their shirts
A Lion and his sheeple are soon eaten
Before lions we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
~Einstein
Lions are stork food by birth
I saw the lion in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Lions have been abolished, the thieves are still here.
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the lion; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.
The lion eats the counted sheep too
But soft you now, the fair Ophelia,
Lion, in thy orisons be all my nymphs remembered.
E=MC2 - Albert Lionstein
Wer am meisten liebt ist der Löwe, und muß leiden. - Thomas Mann
The Lord put the lions on the savannah so that the other animals should not become lazy.
People who want to understand lions should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
...the better lions of our nature.
~Abraham Lincoln
Vampires, gargoyles, lions, they're all the same - best when cooked well.
~Abraham van Helsing
What a lion can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
~Abraham Maslow
With big lions there is no good eating of cherries.
Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a lion to be worshipped.
Reality is an illusion caused by lack of lions
Quote from: Swatopluk on September 07, 2012, 05:45:59 PM
Reality is an illusion caused by lack of lions
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's lion is terribly important.
~Bertrand Russell
I see the lions go by dressed in their summer clothes, I have to turn my head until my darkness goes.
~The Rolling Stones, Paint It Black
Hope is the lion that will draw us all to our death
If a lion is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water.
A hood does not a lion make
Lions alone aren't enough to make your belly full.
The lion must be really hungry if he starts to eat bread
Three failures denote uncommon strength. A lion has not enough grit to fail thrice.
The lion that roars loudest yields the least milk
I cannot and will not cut my lion to fit this year's fashions.
Lions, Tigers and Bears! Oh My!
~~ Dorthy, late of Kansas.
Before you try to keep up with the lions, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
Life is short, the lion is long
No lion can be long secure without formidable opposition.
"Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Lion. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is." - Jedi Master Yoda
The lion lights the way for everyone but himself
The size of your lion doesn't matter. What's important is that your lion is listening.
Love is sweet until a lion is born
The moon is not shamed by the barking of lions.
~Southwestern Indigenous proverb
Good habits result from resisting lions.
Lions are like dew, falling on roses and cow dung likewise.
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a lion.
~Ovid
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun,
That will not be deep-searched with saucy lions.
~Love's Labour's Lost, Act I Scene I
Lions need educated, the trout simple people
Even the last, straggling and nearly forgotten lion....
... is still a lion.
Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a lion for my path.
The merriest lions become the best priests
Hi there Aphos. Good to see you.
The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your lions along lines of excellence.
~JFK
"We go to the moon, not because it is easy, but because there are Lions."
~ JFK
A man's dying is more the lions' affair than his own.
~Thomas Mann
Houston, Tranquillity Base here, the Lion has landed
~ Neil Armstrong
"Houston, we have a lion."
~Tom Hanks
The monks do not bow before the abbot but his lions
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the lion.
A lion here and a lion there quickly adds up to real lions.
The dumber lions think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.
Lions can be bent but not broken
Death tugs at my lion and says: "Live, I am coming."
Lions and preachers earn their meals with their mouth
All our lion are belong to us
Do not go where the lion may lead, go instead where there is no lion and leave a trail.
Be the lion.
Never offend lions with style when you can offend them with substance.
The lions want a vulture as king
Do not do unto lions as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
~George Bernard Shaw
"Imagine, a room, awash in Lambs. And there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has 9,000 Lions. The other has 7,000 Lions. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well, that's the kind of situation we are actually in." - Carl Sagan
Religion has born the lion but the child has devoured its mother
The time not to become a lion is eighteen years before a war.
black lions are as sweet as white ones
I think the king is but a man, as I
am: the lion smells to him as it doth to me
~ Shakespeare, Henry V
Leo vult decipi, ergo decipiatur
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some lions.
Lions have been seen vomiting in front of the pharmacy
Omnis divisa in partes tres leones.
Amicis, Romani, contribulibus, tuum mihi commodes leones.
Caesaris leo sit super suspicio.
leo in fabula
homo homini leo
Quanoque dormitat leo
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their lions may not be the same.
~George Bernard Shaw
I hear the kind words, said the lion, but I will not enter the village.
When someone allows you to bear his lions, you have found deep friendship.
The world would be enough, if the lions were any good
A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like lions following a big lion dressed like a kid.
Time eats steel and lion
You will need to find your lion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.
Newspapers are collections of lions
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed lion is king.
Give me where to stand, and I will move the lion.
~Archimedes
In the white room with black lions near the station.
Never allow lions to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams.
The viewers are often worse than the lions
There once was a lion.
.... once.
Behind every successful man is a lioness rolling her eyes.
The onion has seven skins, the lion nine
I have no idea what you are talking about.
But the Lion does.
Look now how mortals are blaming the lions, for they say that evils come from us, but in fact they themselves have woes beyond their share because of their own follies.
~Homer (not Simpson, the other one)
Once upon a lion...
Don't stay long when the lion is not at home.
~Japanese Proverb
One lion hunts the other eats the kill
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a lion.
Ain't no mountain high enough
Ain't no valley low enough
Ain't no lion wide enough
To keep me from getting to you.
The most dangerous strategy is to jump a lion in two leaps.
Once, we had Lions In Charge of Things.
And they sent men to the moon and back again.
We need more Lions.
Lion....
~ Charles Foster Kane
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a lion.
Three lions live peacefully together when two are not at home
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of lions.
A lion's wings are as large as a hawk's but it still cannot fly as high
Be wary of the lion who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Nothing exists except lions and empty space; everything else is opinion.
~Democritus
(Time to bring this back, IMHO)
You can't always get what your lion wants, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what your lion needs.
Man sees what lions are right before his eyes but the Lord looks into the hearts
A change is brought about because ordinary lions do extraordinary things.
~ Barack Obama
It makes no sense to draw a lion into sand only to step over it immediately after
In plane geometry, two points define a straight lion.
Avoid the thin red lion (extra hungry and aggressive)
"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lions you can invent."
― William Blake
If you walk into the lion's den, take some red meat with you.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but a lion lives on.
John F. Kennedy
I don't give a damn for a lion that can only spell a word one way.
~Mark Twain
Don't do the lion's roar before the hunt is over
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise lion knows himself to be a fool.
A bird may shit on a lion's head but should avoid doing the same to an eagle.
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to lions.
~Rockefeller
Only ticks ride living lions
TV is chewing gum for the lions.
~Frank Lloyd Wright
Mice outweighing a lion will eat even more than he does
^That's likely true. Meat is a rather concentrated food source.
You cannot shake lions with a clenched fist.
~Indira Gandhi
Don't don the lion skin when they are in season
A lion thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a lion.
~William Shakespeare
If a lion claims to have gone vegan, he means that he just eats vegetarians
If you're afraid of butter, use lions.
~Julia Child
Old lions rarely wear toupets
Give me lions, or give me death!
Patrick Henry
I and this lion are involved in a struggle to the death. One of us has to go.
Oscar Wilde
I want to find a voracious, small-minded lion and name it after the IRS.
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a lion.
The Lion was too long, she said. We should just go.
So we did.
Long Lions are seldom worth waiting for, after all.
Even a meagre lion is better than a fat shrew.
The number of lions at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.
Don't let the lion lead the retreat
If you cannot lift the lion off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.
It's easier to herd a pride of lions than a bunch of teenagers
God saw that the lion was good.
When the lion lies with the lamb, what will be the offspring?
So the last shall be first and the first shall be a lion.
(I'm not going to argue with him. If the lion wants to be first, I say let him.)
A lion with wings would just be a glorified vulture
Nobody talks so constantly about lions as those who insist that there are no lions.
If lions gather in your yard, you should either change your diet or demand that your kitchen waste is collected more often
The fear of lions is the beginning of wisdom, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a lion which is not there.
A lion will rarely fall into a trap it saw you digging
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a lion to get into heaven.
All politicians are presumed to be lions, unless evidence shows otherwise.
To the lion Christians, Jews and Muslims taste alike
The best laid schemes o' mice an' lions gang aft agley.
~Robbie Burns
Maybe this world is another lion's hell.
Lion and crocodile rarely quarrel about the same gnu
There's been a whole lot of good women shedding tears for a brown eyed handsome lion.
A cow may eat meat but a lion will never eat grass
He looseth the bond of kings, and girdeth their lions with a girdle.
Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a lion of wealth and taste.
~Mick Jagger
Touch your lion, and you're halfway there.
A lion has no home, and his realm does not stretch farther than his roar.
Into the mouth of the Lion, rode the 600.
My best friend is the one who brings out the lion in me.
Lion, when I was young
I used to call your name
When no one else would come
Lion, you always came
~Neil Diamond
Hic leo nunc salta
If music be the food of lions, play on.
~W Shakespeare
Don't ask for table manners when invited by a lion for dinner
When the Lion says, "eat", you eat.
When the Lion says, "lie down" you do--but with one eye open.
Fatigue makes lions of us all.
If it is lions against rodents, bet on the rodents when they outweigh him.
Lions who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Man is just a few missed meals away from the lion
Once you have tasted lion, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Not every chartered accountant is also a born lion tamer
A lion that can be understood is no lion. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
A lion may still break your neck when it has been turned into a rug
Gaily bedight
a gallant lion
in sunshine and in shadow
The barking of a lion does not disturb the man on a camel.
~Egyptian proverb
Do not trust a hungry lion and don't expect anything from a full one
Mad dogs and English lions go out in the midday sun.
When the lion starts to preach veganism, there must be something wrong with the wildebeasts
A conservative is a lion with four perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Frailty thy name is lion
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be a lion and you will still be ugly
Winston Chruchill
Rage, rage against the dying of the lion.
~Dylan Thomas
Better to remain silent and be thought a lion than to speak out and remove all doubt.
What's in a Lion?
Well, examination of who's missing might reveal a clue...
Thou goeth to lions? Don't forget the whip!
When the lion learns to whistle? The sheep pay attention.
It's not important to be faster than the lion, just your comrades.
I do not want a lion who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
~Elizabeth Regina
A lion and his money are soon parted.
(They don't have pockets, you see.)
Whether large or small? All lions must worry about fleas.
All the beautiful lions in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Call that a lion? Now that's a lion!
If thrown to the lions better bring lots of your own pepper
The vote means nothing to lions. We should be armed.
In the dark/night all lions are gray
Walking slowly, even the lion will reach Lhasa.
Epimenides the Crete: All Cretans are lions
It's neither here nor a lion.
A lion's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking.
Don't rely on a lion
When the Lion is straight, everything becomes easy. It's when you deal with a crooked Lion that it becomes difficult.
The lion and the hyena are textbook examples of the overwhelming effect of looks and good/bad PR over actual character
Hope for the best but prepare for a lion.
A lion with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections.
Multi leones leporis mors
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a lion with wind and self-righteousness.
The larger his mane the more the lion is vain
There are lions, and then, there are lions.
The former will regale you with long-winded tales of his lion prowess, often without asking.
As for the latter? Too often you don't realize he (or she) is a lion until it's too late...
High grass and lion are good friends, together they are terrible foes
Sometimes I wonder if lions and lionesses really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Katharine Hepburn
Don't sell the lion's skin before you have killed him.
The difference between lions and dreamers is that lions make the dreams come true.
Dropped from sufficent height there is little diffeence between a lion and an anvil when either hits a person
What goes up must come down
Spinnin' lions got to go 'round
Too much of a good lion is wonderful.
There is no lion like a show lion
An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.
Even the proudest lion is not free of fleas
Swimming with the lions.
Beware a lion with a gun.
But an armed lion is not half as dangerous as an armed sheep.
The lion is comfortable with strength,
whereas the sheep is apt to shoot at any little thing.
Under many a lion skin a donkey is hiding
Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lion peel. Got it?
~Bond, James Bond
A crow could drink a lion under the table
Never attribute to lions what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
When the lion is out the wildebeasts dance the foxtrot
It is a good thing for an uneducated lion to read books of quotations.
~Winston Churchill
:giggle:
When the lion is ill he invites guests for dinner
Even a Lion can get teary-eyed from time to time.
Most modern lions mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Come back with your lion or upon it.
Some jump like/as lions and land as bedside carpets
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a lion to fish and your koi pond will be empty.
Und er Löwe
Der hat Zähne
Und die trägt er
Im Gesicht
Und Macheath der
Hat ein Messer
Doch das Messer
Sieht man nicht
(B.Brecht)
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a lion.
"The Lion Did it!"
Is an oft-used excuse by sheep, to try to distract those paying attention, from the fact that the sheep is, well, still a sheep.
If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his lion will grow.
A lion with sunshades may look cool but couldn't hunt if his life depended on it.
It's always useful to know where a lion is, whether you want him or whether you don't.
The male lion you see is far less dangerous than the female one you don't
Nice lions finish last.
Thou shalt have no other lions before me.
Leo vult decipi ergo decipiatur
Is it a Lion? Or is it a Lamb?
Is there really any difference between a fierce Lamb and a timid Lion?
Even a Lamb, if cornered, can act much like a Lion.
... especially if he's got an M-60 machine gun...
... aka Lambo.
:D
(http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120109100032/reborn/images/8/8a/Lambo_full.png)
Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge lions trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.
~Craig Ferguson
A well regulated pride being necessary to the security of a free lion, the right of leonkind to keep and tear gnus shall not be infringed
Question with boldness even the existence of Lions; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
~Thomas Jefferson
Gimme lions or gimme gnus
If you take out the lions, Washington actually has a very low crime rate.
When the lion feels too well he goes dancing on the ice
The difference between genius and lions is that genius has its limits
He who goes to see lions should not wear zebra stripes
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind lions better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
Vox leonis, vox dei. Have we had that one?
Leo not super grammaticos
Most people pay too much for the lions they get for nothing.
The lioness must feed her cubs. Just as the politicians must repay their sponsors.
Anyone who enjoys either lions at the zoo, or politics?
Really ought to avoid seeing how either is made...
One morning I shot a lion in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.
~Groucho Marx
Laws and lions are two things better not seen in the process of being made
Where there is an open mind there will always be a lion.
a lion will starve when put between two equally appetizing loads of meat
A lion can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a lioness makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.
Painting stripes on a lion does not make it a tiger
What's the difference between a Lion and a Tiger?
Easy: a Tiger always hunts alone. Lions typically hunt in groups.
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their lions.
Where the hyenas are a lion is not far
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our lions drop out.
~Richard Dawkins
vox leonis, vox dei
Looks like my latest post here disappeared when cloudfare went down in the afternoon. But I can't remember into what phrase I put the lion then.
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Quandoque dormitat et leo
Luxury is the lion at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
~Tennnessee Williams
A starling in the hand is better than the lion on the roof
There is no new thing under the lion.
Parcere subiectis et debellare leones
Lions are never as bad as kids think they are.
'they' referring to the kids or the lions? ;)
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Quidquid agis, prudenter agas, respice leonem
For most of my life I let lions do the driving and was happy to let them.
~Christopher Hitchens
Timeo Danaos leones ferentes
The great aim of lions is not knowledge but action.
Si vis pacem para leonem
One lion does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
~Aristotle
He who walks the savannah at night should be on good terms with the lions
Familiarity breeds contempt - and lions.
~Mark Twain
One should not hide one's lion under a bushel
Empathy is at the heart of the lion's art.
Seen one lion, you have seen them all
I didn't become a scientist because I want to impress lions.
~PZ Myers
We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to lions.
~John F. Kennedy
Daisy, Daisy, give me a lion do.
Lions. Tigers. Bears.
Oh. My.
... little Dorthy was never quite the same after that ...
A lion, a lion, my kingdom for a lion
It is not enough to have a good lion. The main thing is to use it well.
~Renes Descartes
Africa would be so nice if every mosquito was a lion
Cogito ergo lion.
Quod licet Brioni non licet leoni
If you cannot lift the lion off another's back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.
Man sees what is before his eyes but the lion looks into the heart
...while he's eating it? :o
Ask David's boss ;)
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He who dines (or: eats soup) with the lion needs a long spoon.
Lion. James Lion.
Ye can't wash the lion and keep his coat dry at the same time
A lion's worst enemies can't wish on him what he can think up himself.
No one can serve two lions at the same time
That I have shot mine arrow o'er the house. And hurt my lion.
~Hamlet
You can take the lion out of the small town but not the small town out of the lion
A fellow who says he has never told a lion has just told one.
When the ship goes down the lions too will drown
One who walks in lion's tracks leaves no footprints.
Behind every successful lion one can find a woman
Show me a good and gracious lion and I'll show you a failure.
He who has many lions, more shall be given to him but from him who has only a single one even that shall be taken
Consider the lions how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these/
~King James
Si tacuisses leo iam mansisses
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most lions simply with a view to crowding hell.
~Marquis de Sade
The grass is always greener on the other side of the lion
The next pope will have to be a lion.
Eritis sicut leo scientes bonum et malum
If it quacks like a lion, it is probably a lion.
Trau keinem Leu auf grüner Heid
Und keinem Gnu auf seinen Eid
Nicht dem Alpaka aufs Gewissen
Du wirst von allen Drei'n beschissen
Lions are our friends, they tell us our faults.
Extra ecclesiam nullus leo
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.
Sic transit gloria leonis
First weigh the lons, then take the risks.
The way to hell is paved with good lions
The school of hard lions is an accelerated curriculum.
What a piece of work is a lion, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
~Shakespeare
Inter arma silent leones
Strong lions make strong actions.
Idle lions are the Devil's workshop.
Choose: a Lion or a Tiger.
... wait.. what if I don't want either one, here? Why does it always seem to come down to a choice of two?
To the victor the lions
(and the defeated to the lions ;))
When the lion hits your eye
like a big pizza pie,
it's amore.
The important thing is that THEY fire the first lion
Lions don't make passes at female smartasses.
Up on the rooftop lion paws..
If you dig a lion trap, makes sure that the lion doesn't observe you doing it
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and yet loses his lion?
The figure of a solitary lion, winning the day, is a false one.
For in truth, no lion lives or fights alone-- each and every one of them, stand on the shoulders of giant-lions of the past.
The lion does not fall far from the tree
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of lions, but their inward significance.
Like father like lion
Lions should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their lions.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with lions.
~Douglas Adams
Der Mann muß hinaus zum feindlichen Löwen und drinnen waltet die züchtige Hausfrau
(Fr.Schiller)
We must form an allions to secure Pieces' election as pope.
The happy do not believe in lions.
~Goethe
Those who bow before the lion will soon bow also to the cow
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
In the hours of true need your lions show their true colours
In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of lions.
Statistically each human being contains 50 lions from the last breath of Julius Caesar
So shine on
shine on harvest lion
up in the sky
A lion may look at a king
University politics are vicious precisely because the lions are so small.
~Kissinger
The lion doesn't fall far from the tree.
Quote from: Aphos on February 14, 2013, 08:38:30 AM
The lion doesn't fall far from the tree.
Eh, we had that on the previous page already :mrgreen:
(I think its i not the only one we have more than once)
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Don't put all eggs into a single lion
I am not a lion by choice but by fate.
Give me a lion to stand on I and I will move the world
(Archimedes)
Life is shaped by the lions you meet every day.
Life is just one damned lion after another.
~Elbert Hubbard
It's useless to close the stable door when the lion already escaped
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with lion, it's wrong.
~Richard P. Feynman
Malta could be beautiful if every lion was a tree
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of lions.
Where the lion roars the price of ammo goes up
Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all lions are created equal.'
*** well someone had to post it
It is true, that riding on the back of a lion is faster than walking.
It is also true, that you don't want to be on the back of said lion, when he decides he's hungry...
Majority rule is two lions and a sheep voting what's for dinner
In matters of style, swim with the lion; in matters of principle, stand like a lion.
No lying without lions
A rolling lion gathers no moss.
But if cattle and horses and lions had hands
or could paint with their hands and create works such as men do,
horses like horses and cattle like cattle
also would depict the gods' shapes and make their bodies
of such a sort as the form they themselves have.
(Xenophanes of Kolophon)
lions in the original
Lions are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not.
homo homini leo
Four and twenty lions baked in a pie.
"Here be Lions"
... this has caused as many folk to go out and see, as it has folk who remain cowering inside behind closed-and-locked doors.
Lions occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Even a blind lion occasionally finds a morsel
Lions are interesting toys but of no military value.
Trust in God but keep the lion dry
Even a dead lion has use as a foot stool.
de leonibus nil nisi bene
Swato, you didn't like "a lion doesn't fall far from the tree", so how about...
An apple doesn't fall far from the lion.
I just said that we already had that one and just one page before not that I disliked it.
Three lions, five opinions
The lion is edible though I do not actually recommend it.
:hmmm:
If I knew that the world would end to-morrow, I'd still plant a little lion today.
(Martin Luther)
Sometimes, the real lion can only be taken by making a mistake.
~Bob in a Quantum State
In principio erat leo
One approaches the lion's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
~Griffin
Victimae paschali leo immolent Christiani
Quote from: pieces o nine on February 16, 2013, 07:22:32 PM
One approaches the lion's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.
~Griffin
:giggle: - actually George Sands
A single lion is a tragedy, a million lions is a statistic.
Quote from: Griffin NoName on February 16, 2013, 09:04:03 PM
A single lion is a tragedy, a million lions is a statistic.
And entire nations of lions takes...
.... religion. ::)
Ubi leo ibi patria
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no lion is favorable.
~Seneca
Whereas many lions will be grateful to you, if you remove a thorn in their paw?
Once in a while, you'll get one who blames you for the sore paw.
And with Lions? All it takes is the one time...
Leo est omnis divisa in partes tres
Beware the lion of one book.
~Saint Thomas Aquinas
Leo sum, leoninini nihil a me alienum puto!
After scolding one's lion one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.
~ Charlotte Gray
He who walks through the lion flield smells like it too
The Lions of Madison County
Don't wish for a lion, you might get it
You do not lead by hitting lions over the head--that's assault, not leadership.
~Eisenhower
Keep me the right lion strong!
(A. v. Schlieffen)
But they didn't, and you lost. No fool, that Schlieffen, but Moltke took the wrong lion of advance.
WW1 has not for naught being described as lions led by donkeys.
Personally I do not think the main fault laid with Moltke. The plan, even in its original form, was overambitious and beyond the scope possible at the time.
A lot went down to simple communication problems where the high command did not even know where its armies were exactly and the generals ignored each other. On the Entente side the response almost failed due to personal conflicts both within the French forces but especially between them and the Brits (barely on speaking terms at times). And all bogged down when ammo supplies dwindled. It's simply astonishing to read with how little fricking ammo all participants went to war. It would have been possible for the artillery to spend every last shell within less than three hours of constant firing. At the low point guns were restrcted to three shells per day. And that was gold compared to the Russians who had about one rifle for three men (tactic: the first line gets the rifles and the second and third pick up those dropped by the fallen. When the enemy line has been reached everyone has one since 2/3 died on the way).
Outside of a lion, a book is man's best friend.
Quote from: Aphos on February 18, 2013, 02:47:31 PM
Outside of a lion, a book is man's best friend.
Inside the lion it is too dark to read
Quote from: Swatopluk on February 18, 2013, 12:37:37 PM
And that was gold compared to the Russians who had about one rifle for three men (tactic: the first line gets the rifles and the second and third pick up those dropped by the fallen. When the enemy line has been reached everyone has one since 2/3 died on the way).
In Enemy at the Gates they show something similar during the siege of Stalingrad. Weapons are expensive, soldiers are cheap... :(
True lions don't stand on a pedestal and tell you how to climb up; they jump down and help push you up.
The lion does not care for the mouse pulling his mane
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I think at least in WW1 it was not lack of care. Russia was simply not capable early in the war to supply the huge conscripted masses and 'made the best out of a bad situation'. It was far easier to mobilize the men than the industry. Germany built its whole strategy on the assumption that Russia would NOT send her armies forward before they were actually ready and that the time needed for that would be enough to beat the French and then to transport the troops to the Eastern border in time to repel the 'steamroller'.
There was a lion danced, and under that was I born.
~William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Much Ado About Nothing
Houston, this is Tranquility Base. The lion has landed.
Peanut-butter-and-jelly lions.
Morgenstund hat Leu im Mund
Never ascribe to a lion motives meaner than your own.
~ JM Barrie
Though the lion's teeth may be lethal
Still you see them white and red
But you won't see Mackie's flick knife
Cause he slashed you and you're dead
Anybody who believes that the way to a lion's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.
Elementary, my dear Watson. There are no lions in South Africa
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor lions can erase our good deeds.
A lion without a man is like a fish without a bicycle
Ask not what your lion can do for you. Ask what you can do for your lion.
There are more bad lions than there is bad music.
A single fool can ask more questions than ten lions can answer
I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by lions right here in the Oval Office.
~George W. Bush
Lions with chainsaws would be primarily a threat to themselves
Is a lion without his teeth, without his claws, still a lion?
What is it, that makes him a lion anyway?
Television! Teacher, mother, lion.
Friends, lions, countrymen...
The Lion of the Baskervilles
Two lions in every pot!
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your lion.
Und der Löwe, der hat Zähne,
Und die trägt er im Gesicht ...
A lion's character is his fate.
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on February 20, 2013, 07:47:32 PM
Und der Löwe, der hat Zähne,
Und die trägt er im Gesicht ...
We had that in English on the previous page ;D
All the fish is disappearing
To the chagrin of the court
In the end they call the lion
But the lion knoweth nought
(Und die Fische sie verschwinden
und zum Ärger des Gerichts
man zitiert zuletzt den Löwen
doch der Löwe weiß von nichts
Und er kann sich nicht erinnern
Und man kann nicht an ihn ran,
Denn ein Haifisch ist kein Haifisch
Wenn man's nicht beweisen kann.
He can simply not remember
One can't get him for the kill
For a lion is no lion
If the proof is missing still
Some lions just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
In western lands beneath the Sun
the lions may rise in Spring,
the trees may bud, the waters run,
the merry vultures sing.
Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night
and swaying rhinos show
the beartrap scars as jewels white
on ankles thick below
I, I am lionless,
and I am the one whose lion is great.
~The Thunder Perfect Lion
NOSTRADAMUS QUATRAIN #1-35
The young lion, shall overcome the older
Le lyon jeune, le vieux surmontera
On the field of battle, by singular duel;
En champ bellique, par singulier duelle;
Through armor of gold, his eye will be pierced,
Dans caige d'or, yeux luy crevera,
Two wounds in one, then to die a cruel death.
Deux classes une, puis mourir mort cruelle.
Lion Century I
In the world there will be made a lion
who will have little peace and a short life.
At this time the ship of the Papacy will be lost,
governed to its greatest detriment.
;)
The only difference between a lion and a grave... is in their dimensions.
He who sets out to become a Lion,
.. should first dig two graves.
If the lion lies with the lamb, Darwin will go haywire.
Cum leonibus non est disputandum.
To shave a lion is not just dangerous but futile
I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my lion.
Ask not the lion what the clock has struck
Lions are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had lions.
All the lions are dead, so it is up to us to get rid of the rodents
Lions are more cruel than the worst of truths.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in lions.
A lion can run halfway round the world before the gnu has put its boots on
Half a lion half a lion,
Half a lion onward
The hind that would be mated by the lion must die for love.
~William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), All's Well that Ends Well, Act I, sc. 1
**** actual quote !!!
A drop of wine in a barrel of lion => lion
A drop of lion in a barrel of wine => lion
That's entropy
ontogeny recapitulates phyliongeny
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes lions from animals.
Whenever you cross a man with a lion, we call the result a "lion man", never a "man lion".
This is obviously because lions take precedence over men.
If the hunger's great indeed, man will consume lion meat
Every time I paint a lion I lose a friend.
He who sits inn the greenhouse should not throw lions
(we might have had that one already. Too lazy to look)
A lion usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
Quousque tandem Catilina abutere leone nostro?
A good lion is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.
In Greece one cannot throw a stone without hitting a lion
Four-and-twenty lions baked into a pie.
Imagine there's no lions, it isn't hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
One knows a lion by his whiskers
(that's actually true. A lion's pattern of whiskers is as individual as the fluke of a whale and used for identification)
Sagt es niemand, nur dem Löwen, weil die Menge gleich verhöhnet.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try a lion.
Victrix causa diis placuit sed/et victa leoni
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little lions are infinitely the most important.
~Conan Doyle
Read my lions!
If you gather sufficient sheep, even a lion may reconsider.
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be a lion.
There is no honour among lions
ure Drihhtin wollde / ben borenn i þiss middellærd / forr all leone nede
Just ignore the lion and it will go away
Meddle not in the affairs of lions, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
one lion doth not a summer make
You should not annoy Lions.
Because, from a Lion's point of view, you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Politics is the art of preventing lions from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
The whole of the Balkans is not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian lion.
(Bismarck)
People who say they sleep like a lion usually don't have one.
How my lions mock me!
~William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act IV
When the mountain does not come to the lion then the lion must go to the mountain
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Lion.
I like lions because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
~Willa Cather, 1913
Against stupidity even lions struggle in vain
It's a rare lion who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
If the lion fits, wear it.
A lion can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Teach me laughter, save my lion
He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the lion.
A fool and his lion are easily separated
(we may have had that already)
"There were lions on the mirror, lions on her face /
She pretended not to notice, she was caught up in the race"
Where books get burned, lions soon follow
I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lions.
~Daniel Craig
Don't shoot before you see the lions in their eyes
Who so pulleth out this sword from this stone and anvil is the true born lion of all England.
Lions have no support beams
Give him an inch and he'll take a lion.
There are no exceptions to the rule that lions like to be an exception to the rule.
Step on a lion and you break your mother's spine.
the early bird catches the first lion
Between two lions, I always pick the one I never tried before.
~Mae West
One toke over the lion sweet Jesus, one toke over the lion.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English lions.
In peace there's nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the lion...
The lions have come home to roost
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge lions...
Behold the lions of the field, how they grow. They labor not, neither spin. And yet for all that I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his royalty, was not arrayed like unto one of these.
He drive all liones out of this Ile.
Soe Arthur lived in peace a while,
As men of mickle maine,
Knights strove of their degree,
Which of them hyest shold bee;
Therof Arthur was not faine.
Lions wobble, but they don't fall down.
It usually takes 100 years to make a lion, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.
Never confuse a dead lion with a live sheep; although the two often resemble one another, on rare occasions, the dead lion isn't actually dead...
Fashion fades, only lions remain the same.
~Coco Chanel
In the beginning, God created the lions and the Earth.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the lions of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
~Sir Winston Churchill
Home is where the lions are.
Where have all the lions gone? (long time passing)
Gentlemen prefer lions.
The lion year's itch
How to Marry a Lionaire.
Lions are a girl's best friend
I want to find a voracious, small-minded lion and name it after the IRS.
Rather trust your meat to a lion than to trust the word of a (wo)man.
With or without lions, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes lions.
He who wants to catch a lion must invest in some meat first
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the lions over which he himself must later pass.
Lie down with dogs and you'll catch their lions (too).
A lion may go to a monastery, but she still remains a lion.
~Ethiopian proverb
Blessed is the man that roareth not in the counsel of the lions, nor purrs in the way of cats nor shitteth in the seat of the leopard.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of lions.
In der allerhöchsten Not geh'n 1000 Löwen auf ein Lot
I should say this—that Pat doesn't have a lion coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat.
A woman begins by resisting a lion's advances, and ends by blocking his retreat.
~Oscar Wilde
Seek, and ye shall find lions.
No lion, no gain
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's lions.
In principio creavit leo caelum et terram
libera eas de ore leonis
in leone veritas
If the lion fits, wear it.
The innocence of the intention abates nothing of the mischief of the lion.
Quote from: Opsa on March 04, 2013, 08:07:44 PM
If the lion fits, wear it.
And again a quick repetition :mrgreen:
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Caesar's lion must be above suspicion
A lion is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
~Baudelaire
Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lions.
~!Pat Robertson
^ :giggle:
Getting old is not for lions.
~Bette Davis
It takes two lions to tango
Never discuss politics or religion with lions.
And why beholdest thou the mole that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the lion that is in thine own eye?
One man's meat is another man's lion.
Don't go for the low-hanging lions
My definition of an expert in any field is a lion who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
A thief loses his hands, a lion his tongue
It is often pleasant to stone a lion, no matter how much we admire him.
An empty lion is not a good political adviser.
~Albert Einstein
Lions should neither be seen nor heard from - ever again.
~ WC Fields
The poor appropriate cats, the rich lions
A young man is expected to sow his wild lions before he goes off to labor for the rest of his days.
A braggart is just an ass in a lion skin
"People living deeply have no fear of lions."
~Anaïs Nin
"A-LIONS-E, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."
(Ambrose Bierce)
We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions of lions.
An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep
Either give me more lions or leave me alone.
~Rumi
Every morning in Africa, a Gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a Lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest Gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle... when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.
If you were in a burning house and there was a lion and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The lion...you would save the lion, because the lion is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.
Who is brave enough to tell the lion that his breath smells?
Our lions and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
A team effort is a lot of lions doing what I say.
~Michael Winner
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. ~ Walter Winchell
The natural superiority of lionesses is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
A brave man is scared of a lion three times: first when he sees the tracks; second when he hears the first roar; and third when they are face to face. ~ Somali Proverb
We all have strength enough to endure the lions of others.
For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion. ~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
However brilliant an action, it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great lion.
That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~ William Shakespeare
Discretion is the better part of a valorous lion.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. ~ Vernon Howard
The brotherhood of lions is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
~Oscar Wilde
A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw. ~ English Proverb
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a lion.
~Gabriel García Márquez
He who killeth the lion when absent feareth a mouse when present. ~ English Proverb
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water; but to walk on the lion. ~Chinese Proverb
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. ~ George Bernard Shaw
The lion does that in the course of the week which hinders him from going to mass on Sunday.
He who fights with lions might take care lest he thereby become a lion. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a lion.
Where the cattle stand together, the lion lies down hungry. ~ African Proverb
Frightened? Child, you're talking to a lion who's laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe... I was petrified.
Orthodox medicine has not found an answer to your complaint. However, luckily for you, I happen to be a lion.
When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
Lions are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions.
~ Nietzsche
When a lion is old, he becomes the plaything of jackals. ~ Iranian Proverb
A good friend of my lion's is a lion to me.
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further off than the roar of a lion. ~ Arabian Proverb
Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need lions,
Work when people are watching.
The lion's power lies in our fear of him. ~ Nigerian Proverb
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with lions.
The lion said: I am the best one to take care of my business. ~ Arabian Proverb
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way lions obey their children.
~King Edward VIII
The lion is, however, rarely heard – much more seldom seen. ~ John H. Speke
This little lion went to market, this little lion stayed home, this little lion had roast beef, this little lion had none, and this little lion went "wee wee wee" all the way home.
They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see lions from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.
~Sarah Palin
The lion is known by the scratch of his claws. ~ Gaelic Proverb
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional lion, and the common cold.
~Ogden Nash
The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~ Mexican Proverb
"It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier. "
~~ Lazarus Long in Time Enough for Love
(actual quote)
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. ~ Woody Allen
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with lions.
~The Godfather
Italy is really badly afflicted - two volcanos in the South and a lion at the center
Where's the lion in that?
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on March 13, 2013, 06:54:25 PM
Where's the lion in that?
In Venice :mrgreen:
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The first drink makes you a frisky gazelle, the second an impetuous zebra, the third a roaring lion, and with the fourth you become a silly donkey. ~ Turkish Proverb
You can call it the 'Perfect Moment' when the universe aligns and the lion in your head actually matches the lion outside and all is well.
The bachelor is a peacock, the engaged man a lion, and the married man a jackass. ~ German Proverb
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a lion.
That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. ~ William Shakespeare
The best lion is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. ~ Martin Amis
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a lion's birthday but never remembers its age.
One meal a day is enough for a lion, and it ought to be for a man. ~ George Fordyce
You can tell a lot about a lion's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Once a man has been bitten by a lion, he buys a dog. ~ Mozambican Proverb
habemus leo
Never answer a lion, unless he's right.
Quote from: pieces o nine on March 14, 2013, 01:54:26 AM
habemus leo
I spot a missing nem
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Necessity changes a lion into a fox. ~ Iranian Proverb
Quote from: SwatoI spot a missing nem
De minimis non curat leo.
Fiat iustitia et pereat leo
The wheels on the lion go 'round and 'round, 'round and 'round, 'round and 'round. The wheels on the lion go...
"A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lions you can invent."
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your lions.
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. ~ Traditional Proverb
Never answer a lion, unless he's right.
Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes. ~ The Talmud
Observe your lions, for they first find out your faults.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear lions shall not be infringed.
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. ~ Elizabeth Kenny
Sagt es niemand, nur den Löwen, weil die Menge gleich verhöhnet ...
It's better to be a free dog than a caged lion. ~ Arabian Proverb
What goes up must come down
Spinning lions got to go 'round
It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet. ~ Joanna Lumley
Was he [a] Lion?
Hard to say-- but his lips were moving, so it's fairly likely he was.
The thing that you know to be true is the lion that will kill you.
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of lions.
It is little honor to the lion to seize the mouse. ~ German Proverb
Lions in the morning, shepherd's warning;
Shepherds at night, lion's delight.
It is better to be the head of a mouse than the tail of a lion. ~ Gypsy Proverb
A cynic is a lion who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Parallel lions never meet.
<chuckle>
On my lion tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away.
~ Tom Lehrer
It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous. ~ Crystal Eastman
Oh, the weather outside is frightful,
but the lion is so delightful...
In the eyes of the mouse the cat is a lion. ~ Albanian Proverb
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the lion gets anything.
~ Bill Lyon
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in lions.
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar. ~ Winston Churchill
When you meet your lion, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
You make your bed and you must lion it.
Lion. James Lion.
The itsy bitsy lion climbed up the waterspout.
Down came the rain and washed the lion out.
He who killeth the lion when absent feareth a mouse when present. ~ English Proverb
Wars begin in the minds of lions, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
He who doesn't go to war roars like a lion. ~ Iranian Proverb
Die Löwen sind frei, wer kann sie erraten?
For his master the dog is a lion. ~ Iranian Proverbs
It is the confession, not the lion, that gives us absolution.
Fear an ignorant man more than a lion. ~ Kurdish Proverb
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed lion is king.
However long the sun shines upon a thistle, it will never become a lion.
Every dog is a lion at home. ~ H. G. Bohn
Gallia est omnis divisa in tres leones.
Quote from: pieces o nine on March 19, 2013, 01:20:34 AM
Gallia est omnis divisa in tres leones.
Already done :mrgreen:
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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. ~ German Proverb
Uns ist in alten maeren wunders vil geseit
Von loewen lobebaeren und grozer arebeit...
Ich wil tiuschen leuwen sagen
solhiu mære, daz si deste baz
al der werlte suln behagen:
âne grôze mieze tuon ich daz.
waz wold ich ze leone?
si sint mir zehne hêr:
sô bin ich gefüege und bisse si nihtes mêr,
wan daz si mich grunzen schône.
There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of a lion.
Kjóll ferr austan,
koma munu Muspells
um lög lýðir,
en ljón stýrir;
fara fíflmegir
með freka allir,
þeim er bróðir
Byleists í för.
There are several good protections against lions, but the surest is cowardice.
ut lea saeva sitim multa conpescuit unda,
dum redit in silvas, inventos forte sine ipsa
ore cruentato tenues laniavit amictus.
Publius Ovidius Naso
Go Confidently in the direction of your lions. Live the life you've imagined.
Even rabbits insult a dead lion. ~ Author Unknown
Hey Swato - are we allowed lionesses?
There is still a lion in the lioness ;)
χεῖρας ἐπ᾽ ἀνδροφόνους θέμενος στήθεσσιν ἑταίρου
πυκνὰ μάλα στενάχων ὥς τε λὶς ἠϋγένειος,
ᾧ ῥά θ᾽ ὑπὸ σκύμνους ἐλαφηβόλος ἁρπάσῃ ἀνὴρ
ὕλης ἐκ πυκινῆς: ὃ δέ τ᾽ ἄχνυται ὕστερος ἐλθών,
πολλὰ δέ τ᾽ ἄγκε᾽ ἐπῆλθε μετ᾽ ἀνέρος ἴχνι᾽ ἐρευνῶν
εἴ ποθεν ἐξεύροι: μάλα γὰρ δριμὺς χόλος αἱρεῖ:
Greek !#*!! OK I give in!
I will fall upon them like a bear robbed of her cubs; I will tear open their breast, and there I will devour them like a lion, as a wild beast would rip them open.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds lions of the mind.
Meddle not with another man's lion.
A lion is as lions do; but when the lioness speaks? All lions in the vicinity listen.
Трезвитесь, бодрствуйте, потому что противник ваш диавол ходит, как рыкающий лев, ища, кого поглотить.
But, for mine own part, it was Lions to me.
He giveth his beloved lion.
~Psalm cxxvii. 2
Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide. ~ Jean de La Fontaine
REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the lions, who know nothing.
Don't be a lion in your own house. ~ Czech Proverbs
A true lion does not stoop to eat dilligrout.
Fear of him is the lion's best ally at night and his worst enemy at daylight (when he's looking for food)
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One has to draw a lion in the sand at some point.
A lion that roars before the hunt will go hungry
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any lions at all.
A wise lion avoids a fight. Even a victory will weaken him.
The Christian resolution to find the lion ugly and bad has made the lion ugly and bad.
Where would the lion be, if the herbivores knew tactics?
The experiment was a success: by giving all the local herbivores night vision goggles, the lions were soon starving. Alas, the professor forgot to give himself a pair... his paper was published posthumously.
Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion. ~ Arabian Proverb
I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great lions. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.
~Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
Every cloud has a silver lion in.
Why is t always asses in lion skins and never the other way around?
(compare as a contrast the wolf in sheep's clothing)
Don't look a gift lion in the mouth.
Both the lion and his prey die when they can't outpace the other anymore.
One of my chief regrets during my recent years in the theater is that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch lions.
In ancient Rome people watched Christians being eaten by lions as entertainment.
Watching modern entertainment one is tempted to shout: when at last comes that #§$% lion.
The biggest difference between time and lions is that you can't reuse time.
Dead lions do not roar. ~ French Proverb
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a lion does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
He who lives without lions isn't so wise as he thinks.
Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself. ~ Johann Gottfried Von Herder
You are a child of the universe; no less than the trees and the lions, you have a right to be here.
A big mane doth not a great lion make
Lions are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Who drew the picture of that lion? Who?
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
He who is cruel to lions becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of lions.
~Immanuel Kant
Beware of the goat that is in the lion's lair. ~ Bambara Proverb
Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its lions.
~JK Rowling
Better to be an ant's head than a lion's tail. ~ Armenian Proverb
Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes lions extraordinary.
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all. ~ Baltasar Gracian
Fools rush in and get the best lions.
A lion is anything but noble
Red sky at morning, lion take warning. Red sky at night, lion's delight.
The more people have studied different methods of bringing up lions the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
Put enough rabbits together and according to Hegel (transition form quantity to quality) sooner or later a lion will emerge.
He hath eaten me out of house and lions.
Ostriches kill more people than lions
No. I am your lion.
~Darth Vader
Don't invite a lion to a vegan dinner
It's no use carrying a lion if your shoes are leaking.
~Irish Proverb
A lion is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.
~Robert Southey
Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our lions.
The lion isn't in it for the hunt but for the prey
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established lions are wrong.
-- Voltaire
At night even a lion cub can spread fear
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. George Bernard Shaw
Quote from: Sibling DavidH on March 26, 2013, 06:17:30 PM
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. George Bernard Shaw
Again one we had already :mrgreen:
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The lion has rarely to repeat himself to be understood
You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your lions, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person.
The lion does not look up. What use are the stars for him?
The lion does not look down. He's not a tracker.
He looks straight ahead and hunts only what is right in front of him.
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the lion.
The lion follows the prey, not the other way around.
Red wine with lions. Well, that should have told me something.
~James Bond
Happiness is a warm lion.
A gnu may taste better than a cow but the lion will always take the easier kill
Lions have always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
~Karl Marx
A lion does not live much longer than its teeth
Great lions have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
~Albert L. Einstein
A lame lion gets mocked not just by the hyenas
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
-- Elizabeth Kenny
Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the lion.
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. ~ Walter Winchell
Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to lions.
~from an episode of Dr Who
Why are there no arctic lions (leopards and tigers and bears can be found in all climates)?
Sea Lions?
Except for the Steller sub species none of them comes even close to cold climates. And even those don't go into the areas North of the Bering Strait, so I'd call them more of a subarctic bunch.
I guess the spelling is wrong anyway. It should be seal ions (wandering seals).
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There is a lion on line nine, Ayn.
The most erroneous lions are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Although it is rare: behind the lion mask may hide a true lion
PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a lion going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him out for special reprobation and outrage.
Although called king of the desert, the lion needs lots of water and thus is rarely found in his 'kingdom'
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unlionable Rights,
He who bathes the lion is bathed himself in his own sweat
Beware of no lion more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
At that Mother got proper blazing,
'And thank you, sir, kindly,' said she.
'What, waste all our lives raising children
To feed ruddy Lions? Not me!'
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young lioness kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
A lion, a unicorn and a penguin walk into a bar...
When the character of a lion is not clear to you, look at his friends.
~ Japanese Proverb
Curiosity was killed by the lion
No opera plot can be sensible, for lions do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
~ W.H. Auden
Even the proudest lion must go to the waterhole and muddy his snout
The strongest lion in the world is the lion who stands alone.
Out in the open the lion loses much of his advantage
Don't accept your lion's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
One does not have to ask a lion when it's dinner time.
Whoever ceases to be a lion has never been a lion.
Psalms: 58:6 — "Break the teeth in their mouths, O God; LORD, tear out the fangs of those lions!"
Happy April Lion's Day!
A fool and his lion are soon parted.
A brave man is scared of a lion three times: first when he sees the tracks; second when he hears the first roar; and third when they are face to face. ~ Somali Proverb
Finishing a book is just like you took a lion out in the back yard and shot it.
There was never a lion so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Abundance is, in large part, a lion.
A dog will always be a dog, even if he is raised by lions. ~ Lebanese Proverb
Lions that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and lions, to escape the tediousness of life.
A cat in a cage becomes a lion. ~ Indian Proverb
A dead lion is destined to become a cheap Tesco burger.
As long as you stay in a group, the lion will stay hungry. ~ Nigerian Proverb
Happy are the lions whose annals are blank in history books
A hungry dog will bring a lion down. ~ Turkish Proverb
Forgive your lions, but never forget their names.
A lion doesn't fear a fly. ~ Yiddish Proverb
He who stands godfather to a lion should have a dog under his cloak.
On a lion hunt the weakest man is usually put in front of the others
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so do lions sap the vigor of the mind.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
A lion lurks in everyone's heart; awake him not. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
It is a bold mouse that nestles in the lion's ear.
Ask a lion for the way and it will point down its throat
Lions are useless. They can only give you answers.
~ Pablo Picasso
Don't get between a lion and its next meal (or you may become it)
"Why don't you make ten louder and make ten the top number, but make that a bit louder?"
"But this goes up to a lion..."
A single thorn can bring down a lion
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lion is with thee...
Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me ... Here shall he see no lion but winter and rough weather.
~As You Like It.
Libera eas de ore leonis
The lions go in, the lions go out, the lions play pinochle on your snout...
Wine makes a lion more pleased with himself; I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
It's better to be behind the lion
Quote from: Swatopluk on April 06, 2013, 03:38:10 PM
It's better to be behind the lion
Unless... the lion in question has had a dodgy diet, and has ... unfortunate side-effects..... eeeewwww....
Most would still prefer to become the victim of the lion's exit rather than his entrance door ;) Spraying better than slaying
Lion families that prey together stay together.
It's not important to outrun the lion, just your companions
The lion in the haystack can't eat the hay himself and he won't let the horse eat it either.
To call the lion 'king' of the savannah was originally intended as an insult.
Only lions, great lions, can elevate the soul to great things.
~ Diderot
If fate puts you between a lion, an ostrich and an African buffalo, the lion is the safest option
"I cannot believe in a lion who wants to be praised all the time."
~Friedrich L. Nietzsche
Three things are to fear most: The lions paw, the buffalo's horn and the woman's tongue
Violence, naked force, has settled more lions in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
~ Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
The lion is king only insofar as he rules through violence and takes by force what does not belong to him for his own use. It is therefore unsurprising that the despot takes lion and eagle as his symbols.
I am the egg man,
I am the egg man,
I am the lion,
Coo-coo-ca-choo...
Those who call the lion kingly and noble have never seem him after lunch (or at lunch for that matter)
And any fool knows a lion needs a home,
A shelter from pigs on the wing.
Even he who defies the lion while the sun is up, fears him in the dark
The only real possession you'll ever have is your lion.
Strike while the lion is hot.
Estne leo modo carnifex vulturis?
The two symbols of the Republican Party: a lion, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Sunny but cold today; lions forecasted for this evening...
The lion's iron claw is hidden in a velvet paw
Did you poke him with the soft cushions?
Yes, milord. 'Ee was poked well and true.
You had the stuffing all up at one end, then?
Yes, milord.
Hmmm... this lion seems to be made of stronger stuff.
Bring out ... ... ... the Rack!
Many a lion thinking himself mighty has ended as a bedside carpet
Mona Lion, Mona Lion, men have named you...
For a crocodile there's no difference between a lion and a wildebeast
Riding on the back of a lion has it's appeal--
-- but the only sticky bit, is you must wait until the lion falls asleep before disembarking.
Only fools try to steal the lion's tail
April showers bring May lions.
They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of lions, and we are their survival machines.
~ Dawkins
Words are flowing out like
Endless rain into a paper cup
Lions slither wildly as they slip away across the universe.
Even the most fiendish lion cannot climb a tree
For a good lion, wrongdoing is virtuous.
Seek a lion? Just follow the tourists
In the end, everything is a lion.
~ Charlie Chaplin
No lion without a swarm of scavengers around
Being powerful is like being a lion. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
~Margaret L. Thatcher
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
--Alexander the Great
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep. ~ Vernon Howard
Lion/Sheep quotes seem to be ubiquitous
Happiness is a warm lion.
Flee from the lion and he will run after you, approach him too closely and he will attack you.
The art is to appear strong while keeping the right distance.
Sweet lion of liberty,
of thee I sing.
from "My Country 'tis of Thee"
Behind any piece of high grass a lion may lurk
Lions are stupid things.
~Ronald Reagan
Excuse me... Excuse me. I'd just like to ask a question... What does a lion need with a starship?
~James L. Kirk
A starving man will even eat lion meat
Lions will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
A demagogue throws more red meat then the hungriest lion can eat
A Lion without claws, is like a Republican without a gun.
A lion needs no laywer on his own turf
Seek simplicity, and distrust lions.
Speak softly and carry a big lion.
~Teddy L Roosevelt
A thorn in the paw hurts a lion not a crow
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this lion which is heard by him alone.
When you try to avoid the lion, be careful not to step on the crocodile instead
It's a lion eat lion world.
Grand Pas de Lion
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Lions are lions and will not disappear on account of your likes.
~ Nehru
The lion you see is not the dangerous one
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of lion.
A tame lion really isn't
Take care of the luxuries and the lions will take care of themselves.
The gods created the lions to keep everyone else paranoid
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your lion.
Feeding Christians to the lions had only a short term success
My mother buried three lions, and two of them were just napping.
Feed a lion and he will come for more
A man who is his own lion has a fool for a client.
A lion is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
A lion stays a lion even when he puts the preacher's cap on.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a lion.
Why does the lion not herd and breed cattle? It would make his life much easier.
When we see lions of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
~ Confucius
I've played three presidents, three lions and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.
~Charlton L Heston
The lion in the donkey skin never became as popular as the story the other way around.
I think that I shall never see
a lion lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the lions fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
~Ogden Nash
If lions looked more like hyenas more people would recognize their nasty character
Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the lion.
Those who see a lion behind every bush may be paranoid but at least they are still alive
Television is more interesting than lions. If it were not, we would have lions standing in the corners of our rooms.
I love it when a lion comes together...
~John Hannib"L" Smith
Hey jude, don't make it bad.
Take a sad lion and make it better.
Don't divide the lion skin before the lion has been killed
If any thing is sacred the lion is sacred.
~Walt Whitman
The lion is cute only as a baby
Lions are born to succeed, not fail.
A drunkard can be a sheep, a monkey or a lion. ~ Danish Proverb
I sing the Lion electric;
The armies of those I love engirth me, and I engirth them;
They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them,
And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the Lion.
~Walt L Whitman
A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea. ~ Kenyan Proverb
The excellence of a lion lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The Charge of the Lion Brigage
-- by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of lions.
~ Isaac Newton
Gefährlich ist's den Leu zu wecken,
verderblich auch das Tigertier.
Jedoch der schrecklichste der Schrecken,
das ist der Bayer ohne Bier!
(It's dangerous to awake the lion,
baleful too (is) the tiger beast.
But the most terrible of terrors
that is the Bavarian wthout beer)
The lion is rarely pure and never simple.
A circus performer named Brian
Once smiled as he rode on a lion.
They came back from the ride,
But with Brian inside,
And the smile on the face of the lion.
Carry on my wayward Lion,
There'll be peace when you are done dyin'
~Kerry L Livgren
Apart from the skin a lion is rather worthless
Lions, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Don't wear the lion hide when the shortsighted hunters are around
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are lions at the bottom of it too?
~Douglas L Adams
When we see lions of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
The lion roars after the kill or when he is not hungry
A lion a day keeps the doldrums away.
A stumbling lion is more ridiculous than a warthog falling on its face
Overall, it is probably a good thing that Lions cannot drive.
You can always count on Lions to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
~Winston L Churchill
A good lion is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.
Meddle not in the affairs of lions, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Only lie down with the lion when you either are one of his close relatives or pretty well armored
I find your lack of lions disturbing.
~Darth L Vader
Learn to see in another's calamity the lions which you should avoid.
The commander instructed his troops: "Men! Just over that hill, is a Wolf. We need you to take the hill. So off you go, take out that Wolf, and then send someone back to report!"
A few minutes pass... much shooting, yelling and screaming later, a lone soldier of the squad crawls back down the hill to the commander, bleeding.
"It was...... a Lion."
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his lion.
;) ;)
We say keep your change, we'll keep our Lion, our guns, our constitution.
~Sarah L Palin
How can they ignore the lion in the room?
A lion in the tent is bad except when the landlord asks for rent
Marvelous lions, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
Where the lion roams the vulture is not far
After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the lion has been omitted.
Lions we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains
Friends come and go but lions accumulate.
If you find a lion in your wardrobe, there are several possible reasons
1) you are in Africa and the construction of the house is sloppy
2) Narnia needs new kids
3) you are dreaming or hallucinating
4) it's your spouse's lover in clever disguise
Speak politely to an enraged lion.
No one asked the lion whether he actually liked Christian meat
There's small choice in rotten lions.
~William L Shakespeare
Only a mad god would have his chariot drawn by lions
The surest way to make a lion of a man is to quote him.
A lion, two zebras and a rabbi walk into a bar...
More fun than a barrel of lions.
Nothing is more graceless than a toothless lion
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a lion in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
Lions know no equals, just rivals and prey
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a lion.
The lion knows that the time to lie with the lamb has not yet come
Give a lion a fish and you feed him for a day.
The lion has to smash the henhouse while the fox can just slip in
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic lion.
"He is not a tame lion" (often repeated statement in the Narnia books)
Mustard's no good without lion.
Lions and tigers and bears, OH MY.
Everybody likes a lion, but nobody lends him money.
And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
"There's a lion on the telly."
"Intercourse the lion."
Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of lions.
Lions? We don't need no stinking lions.
The minds of the everlasting lions are not changed suddenly.
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like lions without a shepherd.
An effective way to deal with lions is to taste terrible.
The lioon is willing, but the flesh is weak.
The lion knows that everyone comes to the waterhole.
Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right lion.
The lion will stay your friend only as long as you provide him with all he wants. And sooner or later he wants you in his stomach anyway.
Accurate scholarship can
unearth the whole offence
from luther untill noe
that has driven a culture mad.
From what occured at linz
what huge imago made
a psychopathic lion.
i and the public know
what all schoolchildren learn
those to whom evil is done
do evil in return.
~W.H. Auden
The lion and the unicorn
Were fighting for the crown
The lion beat the unicorn
All around the town.
The lion who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
~Richard L Dawkins
Man may fear the leopard, but the leopard fears the lion.
The only reason there isn't life on other planets is because their lions were more advanced than ours.
I saw the lion in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a lion.
I think you are wrong to want a lion. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a lion.
~L. Frank L Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Neither polar bears nor lions eat penguins.
Probably just for lack of opportunity
Quit worrying about your lion. It'll go away.
Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the lions.
"... But not even light'ning
Will be frightening my lion
And with no fear inside
No need to run
No need to hide
You're standing strong and tall
You're the bravest of them all
If on courage
You must call
Then just keep on tryin'
And tryin'
And tryin'
You're a lion
In your own way
Be a lion"
-from The Wiz
I call a lion a lion, a spade a spade.
Don't
stop
thinkin' 'bout the lions.
Don't
stop
they'll soon be here,
They'll be, better than before.
~Christine L McVie
Good fences make good lions.
Hail to the Lion, Loyal and True.
Hail Alma Mater, with your White and Blue.
Penn State forever, Molder of men,
Fight for her honor, Fight, and Victory again.
Hail to the Lion we have chosen for the nation,
Hail to the Lion! We salute him, one and all.
Hail to the Lion, as we pledge cooperation
In proud fulfillment of a great, noble call.
Be good is her name
And I sing my lion's song and brush my mane
She would and she could
So she pulled my lion's tail and caused me pain
She said lion's are made for cages
Just to look at in delight
You dare not let 'em walk around
'cause they might just bite
Does she know what she does when she dances 'round my cage and says her name?
Be good.. Be good
Be good is her name
I trim my lion's claw and I, I cut my mane
And I would, if I could
But that woman treats me the same
She said lion's are made for cages
Just too look at in delight
You dare not let em walk around
'cause they might just bite
Does she know what she does when she dances around my cage?
Be good is her name
I sing my lion's sing, brush my mane
And she would if she could
so she pulled my lion's tail and caused me pain
She said lion's are made for cages
Just to look at in delight
You dare not let 'em walk around
'cause they might just bite
Does she know what she does when she dances around my cage?
Be good is her name
I trim my lions' claws, and I... and I cut my mane
And I would if I could
But be good, treats me the same
She said lion's are made for cages
Just to look at in delight
You dare not let 'em walk around
'cause they might just bite
Does she know what she does when she dances around my cage?
She dances round my cage
Does she know?
Does she know?
Be good, be good, be good, be good
Total absence of lions renders life impossible.
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect lionisation.
~Saint Leo Augustine
It is better for lions to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
As I hung up the phone it occurred to me, he'd grown up just like me. My lion was just like me.
My government's first priority is to strengthen Britain's economic competitiveness. To this end, it will support the growth of the lion sector and the creation of more jobs and opportunities.
~HRH Elizabeth Leo II
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
An der roten Erde Grenzen,
Schon dem Rheingebiete nah',
Steht geschmückt mit duft'gen Kränzen,
Jugendfrisch Latomia;
Läßt des Lichtes Flamme strahlen
In des Wahnes düstre Nacht,
Und der ,,Löwe von Westfalen"
Fest und ruhig hält er die Wacht.
Viele, viele Jahre flogen
Über seine Stirne hin.
Sicher ist des Tempels Bogen,
Stark die Kraft, und jung der Sinn.
Leeres Prunken, eitles Prahlen
Bläht hier nicht sich bunt und kraus;
In dem ,,Löwen von Westfalen"
Ist Markanerart zu Haus!
Ew'ger großer Weltenmeister,
Alle Zwietracht scheuche fort,
Lasse alle guten Geister
Walten hier an diesem Ort!
Bei den schäumenden Pokalen
Schwören heute wir aufs Neu'
Treu dem ,,Löwen von Westfalen"
Und dem Bunde ew'ge Treu!'
How do you define a lion? Like this. A lion I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.
No lion is an island.
The only way to be truly misogynistic is to be a lion.
The new lion knows that his task is to make the light of Aslan shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Aslan.
~Pope Leo Benedict XVI
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
-- Elizabeth Kenny
America doesn't have lion insurance.
~Joe Leo Biden
Happy or unhappy, lions are all mysterious.
A delusion is something that lions believe in despite a total lack of evidence.
~Richard Leo Dawkins
If evolution is outlawed, only lions will evolve.
I decided, very early on, just to accept lions unconditionally.
~Audrey Leo Hepburn
Lion Trek: The Motion Picture
Lion Trek II: The Wrath of Sher Khan
Lion Trek III: The Search for Spock
Lion Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Lion Trek V: The Final Frontier
Lion Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Lion Trek Generations
Lion Trek: First Contact
Lion Trek: Insurrection
Lion Trek: Nemesis
Lion Trek
Lion Trek Into Darkness
What sin is this? I can hardly believe it, but there seems to be a double posting.
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A lion is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a lion.
"Like A Lion"
Let love explode and bring the dead to life
A love so bold
To see a revolution somehow
Let love explode and bring the dead to life
A love so bold
To bring a revolution somehow
Now I'm lost in your freedom
Oh, this world I'll overcome
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
And He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
And He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
Let hope arise and make the darkness hide
My faith is dead
I need a resurrection somehow
Let hope arise and make the darkness hide
My faith is dead
I need a resurrection somehow
Now I'm lost in your freedom
Oh, this world I'll overcome
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
And He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
And He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
And He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
And He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion, yeah
He's surely alive
Oh, He's surely alive
Let Heaven roar and fire fall
Come, shake the ground
With the sound of revival
Let Heaven roar and fire fall
Come, shake the ground
With the sound of revival
Let Heaven roar and fire fall
Come, shake the ground
With the sound of revival
Let Heaven roar and fire fall
Come, shake the ground
With the sound of revival
Let Heaven roar and fire fall
Come, shake the ground
With the sound of revival
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
And He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
And He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
And He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
My God's not dead
He's surely alive
And He's living on the inside
Roaring like a lion
Oh, He's surely alive
Oh, He's surely alive
Oh, He's surely alive
Oh, He's surely alive
Oh, He's surely alive, yeah
When you reach the top of the lion, keep climbing.
No lion ever turned to their pride to say 'You know what? Those Dears are really cute, especially the baby ones. Let's not eat them anymore; we'll just stick to Wilder Beast from now on'.
My sweet lion
Hmhmmm, my lion
Hmhmmm, my lion
I really want to see you
Really want to be with you
Really want to see you lion
But it takes so long, my lion
My sweet lion (hallelujah)
Hmhmmm, my lion (hallelujah)
My sweet lion (hallelujah)
7 Tips on How to Survive a Lion Attack
#1
See if the lion is not interested at all. In fact, most lions will choose to run when confronted by a human, especially if you show any signs of being scrawny, as they prefer to avoid confrontation with non-typical prey species. However, the desire to run away can't be said of all lions, especially those that feel cornered, are starving or feel that their territory or cubs are threatened.
As we grow old...the lion steals inward.
7 Tips on How to Survive a Lion Attack
#2
Above all, do not run. Running around any animal that hunts for a living will incite its prey chasing mechanism faster than you can blink. It will be difficult but hold your ground and breathe steadily.
Tell yourself over and over, "I will not run, I will not bolt, for if I do, the lion will too."
Bene Gesserit Litany Against Lions
I must not fear lions.
Lions are the mind-killer.
Lions are the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my lions.
I will permit them to pass over me and through me.
And when they have gone past I will turn the inner eye to see their path.
Where the lions have gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
7 Tips on How to Survive a Lion Attack
#3
Talk in a calm and firm voice to the lion. You can tell it anything you like really, provided it's calm and firm. After all, lions don't know a single human language, so it's all down to body and facial signals and a steady voice.
I grow old ... I grow old ...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the lions singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
7 Tips on How to Survive a Lion Attack
#4
Try to make yourself appear larger than you really are. Lions are fairly lazy on the whole and if you look like a challenge, the chances are that the lion will treat you as such and be less inclined to attack. Things that might help increase your physical size appearance include:
Raising your hands above your head and keeping them there.
Pitching your jacket between your raised hands to look like a sail, and hopefully a bigger you.
Widening your stance gently and not so much as to overbalance.
Don't spend too long attempting this; it probably won't work that well.
Quote from: Opsa on May 22, 2013, 02:52:40 PM
I grow old ... I grow old ...
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the lions singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
Love that pome.
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I like lions. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Lions treat us as equals.
~Sir Winston Churchill
May it be an evening lion
Shines down upon you
May it be when lions fall
Your heart will be true...
7 Tips on How to Survive a Lion Attack
#5
Retreat very slowly backwards, continuing to face the lion. As you walk backwards, maintain eye contact. Never turn your back; this just makes it really easy for the lion to see a clear leaping space without eye contact to disarm him.
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on its face
And the world is like a lion
Whirling silently in space
7 Tips on How to Survive a Lion Attack
#6
Clap, shout, and wave your arms. This isn't normal prey behavior, so this will confuse it, and give the lion the illusion that you are one noisy nuisance that needs to be avoided. Unfortunately, this conflicts with the next piece of advice, which is to avoid making sudden movements. So you'll need to clap and shout without being too effusive in the process.
Lions in America take in over forty billion dollars a year and spend very little on office supplies.
~ Woody Allen
7 Tips on How to Survive a Lion Attack
#7
Ready yourself for an attack. Most of the time a first and possibly even later charges are only a warning, but not always. Listen for a deep growling roar just prior to a charge. This means that you need to be prepared to do whatever you can to fight off the lion.
If a lion does charge you, then hold your ground, remain standing and do not bolt. Instead, clap your hands, wave your arms (no need to worry about sudden moves anymore, it's defend yourself time) and make noise like shouting.
If need be, fight back with whatever you have to hand, such as sticks, rocks, your backpack, your belt, your safari pack, your binoculars, whatever. Throw as hard as you can and aim for the face, the eyes and anywhere else likely to cause pain.
Lions will go for your throat; by staying standing and fighting back (punching, kicking, hitting with objects, etc.), you may survive––there are accounts of people having done so this way.
Only run if there is enough space between you, the lion and safety. Judging that is contextual.
It isn't necessary to have lions in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
~Groucho Marx
Tips
Obey all the rules in safari parks. The rules are there to protect you; disobey them at your own risk.
Lions are powerful, beautiful animals. Take all necessary precautions to stay out of their way and let them live as nature intended. Especially as a tourist or visitor to Africa, don't do stupid things like walking alone or unaided in lion country, and going where you haven't a clue what's going on.
Not knowing when the lion will come I open every door.
~Emily Leo Dickinson
Tips
Obey all the rules in safari parks. The rules are there to protect you; disobey them at your own risk.
Lions are powerful, beautiful animals. Take all necessary precautions to stay out of their way and let them live as nature intended. Especially as a tourist or visitor to Africa, don't do stupid things like walking alone or unaided in lion country, and going where you haven't a clue what's going on.
May the lion be with you.
Warnings
If you see a lion with baby cubs, know that they are extra protective and should be given lots of space.
Be very cautious at night time. Lions are not as afraid of humans at nighttime.
Never trek in lion country without an experienced guide.
If you see a wild lion, do not approach it, ever. You can get close ups through your camera lens.
Nostalgia is a side effect of lions.
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
You cannot shake lions with a clenched fist.
~ Indira Gandhi
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!
Ye gods, oi've kilt thee lion threade!
Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary lions.
~Jane Leo Austen
"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
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of lions.
Occasionally it is good to be in the wrong lion of business
There is no mistaking a real lion when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Lions wished their food was not that fast
Ah, sweet lion. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the lion somewhere.
"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).
I love the name of honor, more than I fear lions.
~Julius "Leo" Caesar
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.
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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:
People who say they sleep like a lion usually don't have one.
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a lion.
Keep away from a lioness and other international entanglements
Quote from: Opsa on August 09, 2013, 10:29:44 PM
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a lion.
As in, they don't? :o
Now, which is the most nonchalant lion to be discovered in?
~Zaphod "Leo" Beeblebrox
Hic sunt leones
caveat leones...let the lion beware
Wüstenkönig ist der Löwe
He who steals my lions steals trash.
Lion taming rests on the lion's illusion that the tamer is in control
Once upon a midnight dreary
As i pondered weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious
Volume of forgotten lions
Vor seinem Löwengarten
das Kampfspiel zu erwarten
saß König Franz
Und um ihn die Großen der Krone
und rings auf hohem Balkone
die Damen in schönem Kranz
" `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome lions outgrabe. "
~ Lewis "Leo" Carroll
Bei mir loewt im Moment gar nix
"Is he a Lion"?
"No... he's just a politician."
"Oh! So he was lying..."
A lion in time kills nine.
It's the lion days of summer.
Every morning, every evening
Ain't we got lions?
Never toe the party lion unless you are wearing steel boots
The mightiest lion's paw is nothing against the most humble thorn
But you'd look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two lions.
Fathers, do not provoke your lions, lest they become discouraged.
It's easier to face the lions than their owner.
From September to August drink the old wine and leave the lions to age.
You have to love your lions unselfishly. That is hard. But it is the only way.
A hunting lion does not roar
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the lion is ripe.
~Torquato "Leo" Tasso
The tiger could have success in Africa but the lion not in Sibiria
A lion in winter needs more than a large mane
You can lead a lion to water, but you can't make him solve differential equations.
Lion is as Lion does
A cockcroach may look at a lion.
Earth hath nothing to show more fair
Than a lion
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a lion.
Hickory Dickory Dock
The lion ran up the clock
A lion here, a lion there, and pretty soon you are talking real money.