"I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy’s country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction. Live with your head in the lion’s mouth. I want you to overcome ‘em with yeses, undermine ‘em with grins, agree ‘em to death and destruction, let ‘em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open..."
ralph ellisonGentlemen, you have fought like lions and been led by donkeys.
erwin rommelThou wear a lion’s hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf’s-skin on those recreant limbs.
william shakespeareSaul and Jonathan were lovelyand pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions? I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!
Bible (Old Testament)Had another dream about the lions at the doorThey were not half as frightening as they were beforeBut I'm thinking about eternitySome kind'a ecstasy's got a hold on meWalls, windows, trees, waves coming throughYou be in me I'll be in youTogether in eternitySome kind'a ecstasy's got a hold on meUp among the firs where it smells so sweetOr down in the valley were the river used to beI got my mind on eternitySome kind'a ecstasy's got a hold on me, and I'mWondering where the lions are and I'mWondering where the lions are...
bruce cockburnShe dropped her glove, to prove his love, then looked at him and smiled;He bowed, and in a moment leaped among the lions wild:The leap was quick, return was quick, he has regained his place,Then threw the glove, but not with love, right in the lady's face."By God!" said Francis, "rightly done!" and he rose from where he sat:"No love," quoth he, "but vanity, sets love a task like that."
leigh huntThe 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.
david mellorHumanity is a pigsty, where lions, hypocrites, and the obscene in spirit congregate.
George MooreWhen freedom rises from the killing floor,No lock of iron or rivet can restrain the door.And no kind of army can hope to win a warLike trying to stop the rain or still the lion`s roar,Like trying to stop the whirlwind scattering seeds and sporesLike trying to stop the tin cans rapping out jailhouse semaphore.
joe strummerThis is a strange fraternity these sea lions and land lions, land unicorns and sea unicorns; the lion civilly rampant, tame and concessive like the long-tailed bear of Ecuador the lion standing up against this screen of woven air which is the forest: the unicorn also, on its hind legs in reciprocity.
marianne mooreI should prefer an army of stags led by a lion, to an army of lions led by a stag.
benito mussoliniThen the slow lip of fire moves across the prairie with precision While, somewhere, with your pliers and glue, you make your first incision And, in a moment of almost-unbearable vision, doubled over with the hunger of lions 'Hold me close', cooed the dove, who was stuffed now with sawdust and diamonds.
joanna newsomAn army of stags led by a lion would be better than an army of lions led by a stag.
An army of sheep led by a lion are more to be feared than an army of lions led by a sheep.
It is better to have sheep led by a lion than lions led by a sheep.
An army composed of sheep but led by a lion is more powerful than an army of lions led by a sheep.
An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
An army of stags led by a lion would be better than an army of lions led by a stag.
An army of sheep led by a lion are more to be feared than an army of lions led by a sheep.
It is better to have sheep led by a lion than lions led by a sheep.
An army composed of sheep but led by a lion is more powerful than an army of lions led by a sheep.
Greater is an army of sheep led by a lion, than an army of lions led by a sheep.
I am more afraid of one hundred sheep led by a lion than one hundred lions led by a sheep.
We were the Leopards, the lions; those who'll take our place will be little jackals, hyenas; and the whole lot of us, Leopards, jackals, and sheep, we'll all go on thinking ourselves the salt of the earth.
giuseppe tomasi di lampedusalions make leopards tame.
william shakespeare