Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.


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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
ANONYMOUS
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
GERMAN PROVERB
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
I call on the authorities to release him immediately or publicly air the case against him and give h...
DAVID SCHLESINGER
A prince must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
He who flies proves himself guilty
DANISH PROVERB
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
THE LION
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a governm...
RICK SANTORUM
It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not en...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.
GEORGE CRABBE
The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
WILLIAM BLAKE
When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won...
UDAY KOTAK
Even a dog mocks a lion when the lion is inside a cage.
AMIT KALANTRI
A kite flies against the wind, not with it.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed fr...
ELIZABETH I
To become a millionaire you must become a Lion, you can't even spell millionaire without the word Li...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE
There may be an indication that Mr. Creswell was acting in self-defense outside the bar. He may have...
CHARLES BRANSON
The flies don't even like this stuff.
JEFF HAYES
All she did that night is survive, and it is not against the law to survive. Caryn has the right to ...
BARBARA KESHEN
It is very difficult to defend against the suicide bombers.
PAUL BEAVER
We intend to vigorously defend the charges brought against him.
MICHAEL ZASLAVSKY
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion.
UNKNOWN
No deer ever gave himself to a lion, because deer felt pity with lions's hunger!
DR. VINOD B. NAIR
There's a way to win when the other guy is pitching good against you. You've got to pitch and defend...
TONY LA RUSSA
We will defend ourselves vigorously against the allegations.
JEFF PRESCOTT
Even rabbits insult an dead lion.
PROVERB
Even hares insult a dead lion
PROVERB
We intend to vigorously defend ourselves against these claims.
ELIZABETH HOFF
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the har...
GORDON SMITH
The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
WALT DISNEY COMPANY
I am shocked at such allegations. Hank Jr has had to defend himself once already in Memphis last Fri...
KIRT WEBSTER
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
Volatile. Fully prepared to defend myself. (when asked how would he describe himself)
JOHNNY ROTTEN
When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB
Arthur himself has never seen anything done to the house - not even paint.
DEB MONAHAN
You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more ...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH
Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.
CASSANDRA CLARE
They've put Lance in Pandora's Box. And he can't defend himself.
BILL STAPLETON
He's frustrated and angry with the way the process works. He wants a chance to defend himself.
DONALD DEMAYO
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our mar...
TODD TIAHRT
Never fight all the idiots at once, because even a lion has to run away when he encounters a group o...
DR HITESH C SHETH
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unab...
C.S. LEWIS
Isn’t it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
When he is given a fair opportunity to defend himself, the allegations will be demonstrated to be un...
EDDIE GREENSPAN
For even flies shy away from formaldehyde-treated fish.
ATIEK HERWATI
Every now and then the government must defend itself against itself.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Since they won't tell him what he did, it's impossible for him to defend himself.
DANIEL PEREZ
We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.
MARSHALL BLOOM
One doesn't defend one's god; one's god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMES
For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when...
BIBLE
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
GILLES DELEUZE
Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.
THOMAS MERTON
The defendant needs to be fairly informed of the charges against which he must defend,
DAVID PARK
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Three flies can consume a carcass at the same rate as a full-grown lion. If the temperature and the ...
EMILY CRAIG
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others
LOPE DE VEGA
We had to defend against a bunch. There were too many coming against us, so we moved it inside.
AISLING MACRUNNELS
Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead
PROVERB
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY
Obviously we will vigorously defend any lawsuit against Mr. Bennett.
GARY NAFTALIS
Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
BERNHARD BERENSON
He was not defending himself. How could I defend myself when I didn't have a weapon? ... How is he d...
BRENDA COLEMAN
You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be...
SCOTT HOWARD PHILLIPS
A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
JACKI WEAVER
I intend to continue vigorously to defend the city's affirmative action program against any challeng...
LOUISE RENNE
A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.
ISAAC ASIMOV
If you are a deer, they are aggressive, but we are something that they don't want or need. But even ...
TROY SWAUGER
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
FRANCIS PICABIA
He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies li...
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who binds himself to a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies ...
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Li...
WILLIAM BLAKE
those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
Governments last only as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed
BERNARD BERENSON
If you have never taken the oath to support and defend the Constitution, then support and defend som...
PHILLIP HENDRICK
The first crime was mine: I committed it when I made man mortal. Once I had done that, what was left...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying bore...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, ...
ARISTOTLE
It's very important for institutions of concentrated power to keep people alone and isolated: that w...
NOAM CHOMSKY
Now, the time has come for the rest of the world to recognize that a federal, democratic Iraq that c...
JALAL TALABANI
The more we know about this threat, the more we know we have to act to defend against it.
STEVE ISRAEL
Our law calleth a man's house, his castle, meaning that he may defend himself therein
WILLIAM LAMBARDE
There is nothing an author today has to guard himself more carefully against than the Saga Habit. Th...
P.G. WODEHOUSE
Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
BERNARD BERENSON

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