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
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Even hares insult a dead lion
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Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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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
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AESOP
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Do not attempt to confute a lion after he's dead
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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
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON
It is ill catching hares with drums
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As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall no...
BIBLE
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GARY F EVANS...
Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
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BIBLE
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AESOP
May the dead forgive me, I can do no other
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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
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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...
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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.
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And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his...
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The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA
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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
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ROBERT KIRKMAN
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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
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B. H. LIDDELL HART
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
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UDAY KOTAK
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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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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
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HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA
In small woods may be caught large hares
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MONTY PYTHON
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
ANITA BROOKNER
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Two great talkers will not travel far together.
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
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When at a loss how to go on, cough.
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Speak when you are spoken to.
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Talking without thinking is like shooting without taking aim.
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The less people think the more they talk.
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Speak little and to the purpose.
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Speak and the man shall be shown.
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The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.
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A little body often harbors a great soul.
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Life without a friend is death without a witness.
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Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
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Vengeance is a dish best eaten cold.
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He has hard work who has nothing to do.
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Rebuke with soft words and hard arguments.
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Nothing weights lighter than a promise.
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He who begins and does not finish loves their pains.
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One of these days, is none of these days.
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Today must not borrow from tomorrow.
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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
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No one can pray well, but those who live well.
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Short prayers reach heaven.
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
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Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.
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There are more fools among buyers than among sellers.
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Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
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Life is half spent before one knows what it is.
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Love makes time pass away and time makes love pass away.
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Why kill time when one can employ it.
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Forever is a long bargain.
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The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
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Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.
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Time and I against any two.
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The longest day soon comes to an end.
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Soon enough is well enough.
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Now is the watchword of the wise.
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Lost time is never found again.
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He that falls by himself never cries.
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That which proves too much, proves nothing!
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Never say die.
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If you wish for peace be ready for war.
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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
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Peace with a club in hand is war.
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Patience, money and time bring all things to past.
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Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.
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Dios tarda pero no olvida -- God delays but doesn't forget.
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Patience is the key to paradise.
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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.
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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
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That which is escaped now is pain to come.
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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
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Nothing is more elegant than ready money!
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It is a wise man who lives with money in the bank, it is a fool who dies that way.
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Riches have wings.
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A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
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You can't take it with you when you go.
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After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.
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To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
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The only thing we learn from new elections is we learned nothing from the old.
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Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed.
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Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.
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No price is too low for a bear or too high for a bull.
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The gods sell all things at a fair price.
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Something you don't want is dear at any price.
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We know the true worth of a thing when we have lost it.
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Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.
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A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
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It is the truth that irritates a person.
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If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup.
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Time tries truth.
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Tell the truth and then run.
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Truth is the daughter of time.
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Truth fears nothing but concealment.
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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.
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Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit.
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The work praises the man.
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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter.
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