| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Lion |
| | | A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing: for there is not a more fearful wild-fowl than your lion living. Shakespeare. | 1 |
| | Poor conquer’d lion—from that haughty glance |
| Still speaks the courage unsubdued by time, |
| And in the grandeur of thy sullen tread |
| Lives the proud spirit of thy burning clime. |
O. W. Holmes. | 2 |
| | The lion is beyond dispute |
| Allow’d the most majestic brute; |
| His valor and his generous mind |
| Prove him superior of his kind. |
Gay. | 3 |
| | A lioness with udders all drawn dry, |
| Lay couching, head on ground, with catlike watch, |
| When that the sleeping man should stir; for ’tis |
| The royal disposition of that beast |
| To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead. |
Shakespeare. | 4 | | |
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