Lion Proverbs

[Griffin NoName]

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.

[Swatopluk]

Ask not the lion what the clock has struck

[Aphos]

Lions are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

[Griffin NoName]

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had lions.

[Swatopluk]

All the lions are dead, so it is up to us to get rid of the rodents

[Griffin NoName]

Lions are more cruel than the worst of truths.

[Aphos]

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in lions.

[Swatopluk]

A lion can run halfway round the world before the gnu has put its boots on

[pieces o nine]

Half a lion half a lion,
Half a lion onward

[Griffin NoName]

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 !!!

[Swatopluk]

A drop of wine in a barrel of lion => lion
A drop of lion in a barrel of wine => lion
That's entropy

[pieces o nine]

ontogeny recapitulates phyliongeny

[Griffin NoName]

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes lions from animals.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

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.

[Swatopluk]

If the hunger's great indeed, man will consume lion meat