A Quote by George Herbert

Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.

George Herbert

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George Herbert
British - Poet
April 3, 1593 - March 1, 1633

You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you.

Carlo Gambino

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

Niccolo Machiavelli

A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who act simply as lions are stupid. So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage and when the reasons for which he made his promise no longer exist.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

William Blake

The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

One must be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves

Niccolo Machiavelli

Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves

Niccolo Machiavelli

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Plutarch

Trump's Fox News fixation was a major theme of his presidency. He hired people from Fox, fired people because of Fox, and gave most of his national TV interviews to Fox. Sometimes it was hard to tell where Trump ended and Fox began.

Brian Stelter

The Word of God is like a lion. You don't have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.

Charles Spurgeon

The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.

Woody Allen

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

Frans Lanting

The lion doesn't care that the sheep laugh at him. Remember that. The lion just stays there. The animals make noise and tease. The guy with the belt is the lion.