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“It's true,' Mathilde said after some time, 'I could breathe fire.'She thought of how Lotto, in later years, had been called the lion. With his dander up, he could roar. He looked leonine too, his c...”
“It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.”
“Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion.”
“If you are the person who gets the lion's share of attention in good times, guess what: you get the lion's share of attention in bad times.”
“People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a c...”
“It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.”
“I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.”
“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 to scatter.”
“Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to re...”
“Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.”
“The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.”
“Do not pluck the beard of a dead lion.”
“A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.”
“It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.”
“Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.”
