Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it.

Chinua Achebe

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

August Wilson

I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion.

William Shakespeare

Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!

C. S. Lewis

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

William Shakespeare

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

William Shakespeare

Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion

The tabloids are like animals, with their own behavioural patterns. There's no point in complaining about them, any more than complaining that lions might eat you.

Charles Kingsley

It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him.

Daniel Handler

Never look a gift lion in the mouth.

Charles Spurgeon

Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.

Charles Spurgeon

Scripture is like a lion. Who ever heard of defending a lion? Just turn it loose; it will defend itself.

Charles Spurgeon

Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.

Dennis Hastert

There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

Charles Bukowski

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

Rick Reynolds

We use it as a fundraiser for the Texas Lions Camp.

Eliphas Levi

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

Robert Kiyosaki

Typically the person who raises the money, or puts up the money to start the business, owns the lion's share of the business. So learn how to sell and keep learning. It will usually be your own fear that you have to overcome.

Dorothea Lange

It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.

Ann Voskamp

Satan prowls but he’s a lion on a leash

Rick Riordan

His lion and hippo legs twitched. I wondered if netherworld monsters dreamed of chasing rabbits.

Tippi Hedren

We had a lion that was living in somebody's basement outside of Branson, Missouri.

Susan Cain

Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones

Randy Pausch

An injured lion wants to know if he can still roar.

Montgomery Clift

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

Michael Frayn

If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

I wish there were . . . tigers and lions and elephants. Hopefully, maybe in the future, they'll have those.

Florida Scott-Maxwell

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

George Washington

A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.

Ingrid Bergman

I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!

Frans Lanting

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

Big Sean

I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually.