Lions Quotes

605 Lions quotes by 433 unique authors

The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or… — H. L. Mencken
It is not consistent with truth that a man should sacrifice half of his stomach only to God-that he should be sober in drinking, but… — Tertullian
It is faith that makes a lion of a man. — Swami Vivekananda
As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted… — Mark Batterson
Lion chasers are humble enough to let God call the shots and brave enough to follow where He leads. — Mark Batterson
The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.' — Robert Crandall
'Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face.' Thus do I challenge the human race. Bombastes: So have I heard… — Unknown Author
Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil! — Saint John Chrysostom
Ghana is like a lion without a head — Ama Ata Aidoo
Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. — John Dryden
If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle. — Jim Stengel
Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar. — Kodo Sawaki
My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't… — Amanda Holden
Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains… — Charles Dickens
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth. — Charles Caleb Colton
Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation.… — Swami Vivekananda
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to… — P.G. Wodehouse
You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your… — Stephen Sondheim
You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success. — Winston Churchill
Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has… — Aaron Hill
People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh. — Lorne Michaels
Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or… — David Quammen
A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's… — Sheldon Vanauken
Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a… — Tom Shadyac
Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude; but believers are not compared to bears, or lions, or other animals that wander alone;… — Charles Spurgeon

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