Quotes About The Lion And The Mouse

#1. Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power ... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding ... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.

David Whyte

#2. A mouse when caught in a perilous situation reacts aptly because it has such encounters on a daily basis whereas a lion, which is rarely caught in such situations, is often late in its reaction.

Ashish Jaiswal

#3. I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

Daddy Yankee

#4. I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

John Steinbeck

#5. You ask yourself when you'll learn, and the answer is always,
"Tomorrow.

Kris Kidd

#6. One cannot make a mouse a lion." "He can think like a lion.

Pierce Brown

#7. You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.

Aesop

#8. Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake?

Toni Morrison

#9. There was something dead in my heart.
I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse.
I had a dead mouse in my heart.

Richard Brautigan

#10. Back a mouse into a corner and he'll attack a lion.

Manel Loureiro

#11. Isn't it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like a lamb when measuring itself against dragons?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#12. I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

Jenna Elfman

#13. St. Faith's, as she called her compound, was financed entirely by donations, some from friends abroad and some from admiring Chinese benefactors.

Katherine Paterson

#14. Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

John Steinbeck

#15. As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become schooled in thinking of these abstractions as applied to others in matrices-like mental rotations.

Michael Shermer

#16. Let's quit our jobs and fuck all day.

Cara McKenna

#17. Is it worth the lion's while to terrify the mouse?

C. G. Jung

#18. The mighty lion toys with the mouse that crosses his path - any other reaction would mar his fearsome reputation.

Robert Greene