When the lion is dead the hares jump upon his carcase
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Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead
PROVERB Even hares insult a dead lion
PROVERB Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
THE LION The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
WALT DISNEY COMPANY The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
BIBLE Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE The Lion in Love
A lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father, unwilling to...
AESOP [The employees who toured with the Dead will feel the pinch, as well.] There's crew and there's secu...
THE GRATEFUL DEAD Every silver linings got a touch of grey
I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will sur...
THE GRATEFUL DEAD Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclea...
BIBLE And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
BIBLE Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD I'll tell you," she says, getting up. "I just need a drink. You want one?"
"Now?" Libby makes ...
REBECCA JAMES A living dog is better than a dead lion.
BIBLE A live dog is better than a dead lion.
UNKNOWN A living dog is better than a dead lion
SUNDAY ADELAJA And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye sha...
BIBLE For a living dog is better than a dead lion,
BIBLE Even rabbits insult an dead lion.
PROVERB Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under fee...
BIBLE The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP A living dog is better than a dead lion,because hope is only for the living.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together.
BIBLE You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered
together.
BIBLE Better a living dog than a dead lion.
PROVERB Better a live dog than a dead lion.
PAUL HOFFMAN Even a dog mocks a lion when the lion is inside a cage.
AMIT KALANTRI Okay, it's pretty obvious what we're doing here, people. If it's dead - fucking KILL IT
ROBERT KIRKMAN How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the ...
MOVIE 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Do not attempt to confute a lion after he's dead
THE TALMUD She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned ...
REBECCA HARRIS For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEXANDR SOLZHENITSYN For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEXANDER SOLZEHNITSYN For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN When Shakespeare is charges with debts to his authors, Landor
replies, "Yet he was more original th...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is ill catching hares with drums
PROVERB As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from
the wicked: but mine hand shall no...
BIBLE As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not...
BIBLE To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living ...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a
living dog is better than a dead ...
BIBLE The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion
The ass and the fox, having entered into partnership together for
the...
AESOP May the dead forgive me, I can do no other
But as I am commanded; to do more is madness." - Ism...
SOPHOCLES But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten...
ROBERT KIRKMAN The greyhound that starts many hares kills none
PROVERB A lion runs the fastest when he is hungry.
SALMAN KHAN The lion is most handsome when looking for food
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It is hard to catch hares with unwilling hounds
PROVERB . . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building
castels in the ayre or catchin...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Never underestimate a warrior; the lion in him may be sleeping, but that does not mean he’s dead.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his ham...
JOHN BURROUGHS An ancient proverb summed it up: when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, i...
TERRY PRATCHETT When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrai...
HOPE MIRRLEES When his dead father touched his hand, Athson almost dropped the arrow.
P. H. SOLOMON For a second after Aslan had breathed upon him the stone lion looked just the same. Then a tiny stre...
C.S. LEWIS He would have been half-hanged, taken down alive, castrated, his genitals stuffed in his mouth, his ...
JOHN BROADBENT The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his...
BIBLE The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when h...
JANE LINDSKOLD Androcles
A slave named Androcles once escaped from his master and fled
to the forest. As he was wa...
AESOP If mountain lions were conducive to preying upon humans, there would be far more incidents. The aver...
TYLER BASKFIELD They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
BIBLE He was unmistakably sipping iced tea with the hatters and the hares.
TONY VIGORITO To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can rais...
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Only the forgotten are truly dead.
TESS GERRITSEN The morning sun burned away the mist so the valley below is now clear. The scope of what I see drown...
CARRIE RYAN Philip doesn't let go, his eyes glinting with rage. "We're gonna survive this thing,and we're gonna ...
ROBERT KIRKMAN Stop a minute, Ambrose!" interrupted Master Nathaniel. "I've got a sudden silly whim that we should ...
HOPE MIRRLEES When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
MARLENE DIETRICH There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.
BIBLE 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 History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
VOLTAIRE History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead
VOLTAIRE In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only ...
B. H. LIDDELL HART He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won...
UDAY KOTAK What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes...
EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB See this abdicated beast, once king
Of them all, nibble his claws:
Not anger enough left�...
CECIL DAY-LEWIS Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
FRANCINE RIVERS The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; ...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH If you come to help us,for the moment,you will not gain any profit. We have no oil. We have nothing ...
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA In small woods may be caught large hares
PROVERB Of course, it’s a bit of a jump, isn’t it? I mean, er… chartered accountancy to lion taming in...
MONTY PYTHON It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
ANITA BROOKNER Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
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PROVERB Why kill time when one can employ it.
PROVERB Forever is a long bargain.
PROVERB The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
PROVERB Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
PROVERB Time and I against any two.
PROVERB The longest day soon comes to an end.
PROVERB Soon enough is well enough.
PROVERB Now is the watchword of the wise.
PROVERB Lost time is never found again.
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PROVERB Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.
PROVERB He that falls by himself never cries.
PROVERB More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
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PROVERB That which proves too much, proves nothing!
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PROVERB Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
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PROVERB It is the truth that irritates a person.
PROVERB If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
PROVERB Time tries truth.
PROVERB Tell the truth and then run.
PROVERB Truth is the daughter of time.
PROVERB Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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PROVERB If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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PROVERB Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
PROVERB The Devil finds work for idle hands.
PROVERB The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
PROVERB Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.
PROVERB The work praises the man.
PROVERB A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
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