For twenty years he has held a season ticket on the line of least resistance and has gone wherever the train of events has carried him, lucidly justifying his position at whatever point he happened to find himself.

-Amery, Leo(pold) Charles Maurice Stennett
  Of Herbert  Asquith, in Quarterly Review,  Jul.

No horse's cry was that, most like the roar Of some pained desert lion, who all day Hath trailed the hunter's javelin in his side, And comes at night to die upon the sand.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'Sohrab and Rustum', l.501^4.

David said moreover,The L that delivered me out of thepawofthelion, and out ofthepawofthebear, hewill deliver me outofthehand ofthis Philistine. And Saulsaid unto David,Go, and the L be with thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORD1 Samuel17:37.

The slothful man saith,There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 26:13.

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog isbetter thana dead lion.For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 9:4^5.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw likethe ox. And thesucking child shall playonthehole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice'den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the L, as the waters cover the sea.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah11:6^9.

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the L.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDIsaiah 65:25.

   The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord G106 hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

-Bible (Old Testament)
OD Amos 3:8.

I lifted up mine eyes again, and looked, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me,To measure Jerusalem, toseewhat isthebreadththereof, and what is the length thereof.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Zechariah 2:1^2.

By this also ye must know that women have dominion over you: doye not labourand toil, and give and bring all to the woman? Yea, a man taketh his sword, and goeth his way to rob and to steal, to sail upon the sea and upon rivers; And looketh upon a lion, and goeth in the darkness; and when he hath stolen, spoiled, and robbed, he bringeth it to his love.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Esdras 4:22^4.

The Pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.

-Blake,William
  The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,'Proverbs of Hell'.

I stood inVenice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand: I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when manya subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, WhereVenice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles!

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza1.

The Lion looked at Alice wearily.'Are you animalöor vegetableöor mineral?' he said, yawning at every other word.

-Dodgson
Through the Looking-Glass, ch.7,'The Lion and the Unicorn'.

   I have never accepted what many people have kindly saidöthat I inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race living around theglobe that had the lion heart.I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
  Speech to both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall, Nov, on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

Belove'  d, what are names but air? Choose thou whatever suits the line; Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, Call me Lalage or Doris, Only, only call meThine.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Names', a translation from G E Lessing's German original (first published in the Morning Post,1803).

Any work that aspires, however humbly, tothe condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

-Korzeniowski
  The Nigger of the Narcissus, preface.

The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.

-Fitzgerald, Edward
  The Ruba¤  iya¤  t of Omar Khayya¤  m of Naishapur, stanza 51.

He knew too well for any earthly use The line where man leaves off and nature starts, And never overstepped it save in dreams.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'New Hampshire'.

The line dividing the state from what is called private enterprise, orat least fromthehighlyorganized part of it, is a traditional fiction.

-Galbraith,John Kenneth
  The New Industrial State.

I purpose to fight it out on this line, if it takes all summer.

-Grant, Ulysses S(impson)
  Despatch to Washington from Spottsylvania,11 May. Quoted in P C Headley The Life and Campaigns of General U  . S. Grant (1869), ch.23.