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lions
«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 saw any of man's baser acts of inhumanity to man. I never saw screaming 'witches' burned at the stake, Christians tossed to starving lions, maidens pushed over the edge of active volcanoes. I never even saw a man going to the electric chair. But until I do, watching Ben Hogan walk up to a five-foot putt is my idea of cruel and inhuman punishment, only a Hitler would enjoy. You feel like saying 'Go home to your wife and kiddies and don't look upon this terrible thing!'»
Author: Jim Murray
(Writer)
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«Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions-everyone but a school bus driver.»
Author: Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(Educator, Writer)
| Keywords:
awe, bus, bus driver, cage, dozen, driver, half a dozen, half dozen, in awe of, lions, school bus, tamer, tamers, tamest
«Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of prey, man is the only sociable one. Every one of us preys upon his neighbor, and yet we herd together.»
«Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.»
«For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.»
«For others do I wait...for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
body and soul, laughing, lions, merrier, squarely, triumphant
«In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
blended, exquisitely, Keble, lions, oxford, prints, roaring, The Sporting, the union, The Young Lions, vivisect
