1.
The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.
Charles Spurgeon
The Message of God is like a powerful beast. You don't have to vouch for it. All you must do is unleash it, and the strength will protect itself.
2.
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.
Niccolo Machiavelli
The king of beasts cannot avoid snares, and the sly one cannot repel predators. Accordingly, one should be crafty to detect traps, and fearless to discourage predators.
3.
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Saint Augustine
The facts are like a lion; no need to bolster them. Open the gate and let them out; they will protect themselves.
4.
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
Chinua Achebe
It is often said that until those who are oppressed are able to tell their own stories, the narrative of the oppressor will remain triumphant.
5.
It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.
Tipu Sultan
It is preferable to exist regally for a moment than to be servile for a century.
6.
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.
Milarepa
7.
Be as a lion in the path. Be dangerous even in defeat.
Anton Szandor LaVey
Be bold and defiant even in failure.
8.
A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
Jacki Weaver
A lioness has more influence than the lion realizes.
9.
Insanity is being shit on, beat down, coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and a key to release it.
Morgan Freeman
Madness is enduring continual oppression, meandering through life in a pitiable state when one has a powerful beast caged within and the means to free it.
10.
Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a pleasure,' and it will prove to be such-- and even more than a pleasure, it will be a blessing.
Eliphas Levi
11.
You can't pussyfoot around. When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat.
Ice Cube
12.
A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.
George Washington
13.
Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower.
Swami Vivekananda
15.
Don't be governed by the grid, govern the grid. A grid is like a lion cage - if the trainer stays too long it gets eaten up. You have to know when to leave the cage - you have to know when to leave the grid.
Massimo Vignelli
16.
Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.
Charles Spurgeon
17.
If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you.
Al-Mutanabbi
18.
If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.
Tertullian
19.
Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion.
Saadi
20.
I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.
Dick Dale
21.
This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia--in our world they usually don't talk at all. - The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
22.
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
Voltaire
23.
If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle.
Jim Stengel
24.
I'm a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion
Eyedea
25.
Come out of the masses. Stand alone like a lion and live your life according to your own light.
Rajneesh
26.
You are all lions – so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.
H. W. L. Poonja
27.
At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it.
Josh Lucas
28.
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
Frida Kahlo
30.
Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.
Keith David
32.
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
Sakya Pandita
34.
A lot of people like to downgrade Morocco and Africa like its all jungles and lions and sh*t. The actual truth is a lot of stuff is going on out there.
French Montana
35.
I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up.
Ingrid Bergman
36.
A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.
Salman Khan
39.
Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.
Kodo Sawaki
40.
I don't think of myself as a lion. You might as well, though, I have a mighty roar.
Jubal Early
41.
The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.
Bill Vaughan
42.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Napoleon Bonaparte
44.
Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.
Charles Spurgeon
45.
You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.
C. S. Lewis
46.
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
Thomas More
49.
But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.
Billy Collins
50.
This is not an end. It is a beginning. You will need the courage of a lion to face this journey.
Erin Hunter