I was born from the loins of a lion, an African trailblazer who blazed the trail for me to follow. Cut in his prime when I was just a child but his legacy lives in me.

I am a caged lion living like a free-range lamb.

Wolf, who was roaming about on the plain when the sun was getting low in the sky, was much impressed by the size of his shadow, and said to himself, “I had no idea I was so big. Fancy my being afraid of a lion! Why, I, not he, ought to be King of the beasts”; and, heedless of danger, he strutted about as if there could be no doubt at all about it. Just then a lion sprang upon him and began to devour him. “Alas,” he cried, “had I not lost sight of the facts, I shouldn’t have been ruined by my fancies.

Sometimes you have to be a lion to be the lamb you really are.

I am a legend, I have played, broke my leg for this country, and also coached.

I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.

I am the hero of Africa.

"the Cowardly Lion laughed, and said: "I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is! But,

I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

The lion is not so fierce as painted.

Abba Hyperechios said: “Just as a lion is fearsome to the wild asses, so is the well-tried monk to lascivious logismoi.”

A dead lion is more than a dog is not dead.

the lion sleeps in the sun.
its nose on its paws.
it can kill a man.