Toadfish Monastery

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.