While you make pretty speeches I’m being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance

Until the lion learns to speak, the tales of hunting will be weak.”

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

Where the lion’s skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox’s.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.

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

March isn’t the only thing that’s in like a lion and out like a lamb.

You can’t pussyfoot around. When you’re talking to lions, you can’t meow like a pussycat.

They say the Lion and the Lizard keep
The Courts where Jamshýd gloried and drank deep:
And Bahrám, that great Hunter–the Wild Ass
Stamps o’er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep.

Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America’s problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.

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.

Got the eye of the tiger, the lion of Judah.

An army of sheep led by a lion will always defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.