“The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.”
"Scrolls".
Without Feathers (1975)
“The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.”
"Scrolls".
Without Feathers (1975)
Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist
Affurisms: Slips of the Pen http://books.google.com/books?id=Wpk_AAAAYAAJ&q="The+lion+and+the+lamb+may+possibly+sumtime+lay+down+in+this+world+together+for+a+fu+minnits+but+when+the+lion+kums+tew+git+up+the+lamb+will+be+missing"&pg=PA227#v=onepage The Complete Works of Josh Billings (1876)
Robert A. Heinlein book Have Space Suit—Will Travel
Source: Have Space Suit—Will Travel (1958), Chapter 7
“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…”
Stephenie Meyer (1973) American author
he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
"What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, p. 274
Twilight series, Twilight (2005)
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) eighteenth President of the French Republic
Actually said by Giorgos Seferis
Misattributed
Giorgos Seferis (1900–1971) Greek poet and diplomat
Source: "Greek poet's odyssey", 17 Jan 1964, LIFE Magazine, Vol. 56, No. 3, Page 75.
“Though lions to their enemies they were lambs to their friends.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
The infernal Marriage, part 2, Chapter 4 (1834).
Books
“I know an Englishman,
Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.”
George Chapman (1559–1634) English dramatist, poet, and translator
Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany (1654), Act I, scene ii, lines 208–209. Attributed, probably falsely, to Chapman. Perhaps by George Peele.
Disputed
Stephenie Meyer (1973) American author
Edward Cullen and Bella Swan, p. 274
Twilight series, Twilight (2005)