Where did the saying, "The lion is the king of the jungle." origonate?
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Maybe this is it?\n\n\nby Rania Shurafa" \nCountry of Origin: The Middle East\n\n\nOnce there was a lion, the king of the jungle and he was hungry. He decided he wanted to eat the cow. But he couldn't just ask the cow, so he played a little trick. He let every animal offer himsel for herself, so that the king of the jungle could have a good meal. \n\nSo the tiger went first. He asked, "King, King, I offer myself to you." The lion said, "No, no. I can't possibly eat you. Your meat is too hard." After the tiger asked, the giraffe asked," King, King, I offer myself to you." The lion refused the giraffe. He said you're too tall and bony. After the giraffe was the hippo, but the lion refused. And after the elephant came the snake, the deer, and the horse. They all asked, but the king still refused. Since every animal asked except the cow, the cow got embarassed and asked. After the cow asked, the king surprisingly agreed, and he ate the cow. So the lion got his great meal.
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A lion...king of the jungle....undefeatable....yeah I'd choose the Lion any day.
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Good question:\n\nMaybe Society or people in general.  Also, if its a quote it could just mean that you dont know who originally said it.
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one famous quote is: veni, vidi, vici.  Translated as I came, I saw, I conquered written in 47 BC to the senate descibing his victory over the Pharnaces II
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Actually, the reference originally came from a song that was popular in 1956.  It was by the Jayhawks and called Stranded In The Jungle.  It managed to climb the Billboard charts to #18.\n\nThe story is about a guy who gets stranded in a jungle and all he wants to do is get back to his girl in the states.  He gets knocked out, wakes up in a big pot and smells something cooking then realizes he's about to be the main course for a tribe of cannibals.  The next line is "Great googly moogly let me out of here! " \n\nOf course the expression has been used in numerous other songs since but now you know the complete story goes back half a century.
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a LION....."King of the jungle"...I'll settle for being a human animal.
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http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=poem+%22jim%22\n\nHere was my favorite result.. (Why not teach a lesson with a poem)\nThere was a Boy whose name was Jim;\nHis Friends were very good to him.\nThey gave him Tea, and Cakes, and Jam,\nAnd slices of delicious Ham,\nAnd Chocolate with pink inside\nAnd little Tricycles to ride,\nAnd read him Stories through and through,\nAnd even took him to the Zoo--\nBut there it was the dreadful Fate\nBefell him, which I now relate.\n\nYou know--or at least you ought to know,\nFor I have often told you so--\nThat Children never are allowed\nTo leave their Nurses in a Crowd;\nNow this was Jim's especial Foible,\nHe ran away when he was able,\nAnd on this inauspicious day\nHe slipped his hand and ran away!\n\nHe hadn't gone a yard when--Bang!\nWith open Jaws, a lion sprang,\nAnd hungrily began to eat\nThe Boy: beginning at his feet.\nNow, just imagine how it feels\nWhen first your toes and then your heels,\nAnd then by gradual degrees,\nYour shins and ankles, calves and knees,\nAre slowly eaten, bit by bit.\nNo wonder Jim detested it!\nNo wonder that he shouted ``Hi!''\n\nThe Honest Keeper heard his cry,\nThough very fat he almost ran\nTo help the little gentleman.\n``Ponto!'' he ordered as he came\n(For Ponto was the Lion's name),\n``Ponto!'' he cried, with angry Frown,\n``Let go, Sir! Down, Sir! Put it down!''\nThe Lion made a sudden stop,\nHe let the Dainty Morsel drop,\nAnd slunk reluctant to his Cage,\nSnarling with Disappointed Rage.\nBut when he bent him over Jim,\nThe Honest Keeper's Eyes were dim.\nThe Lion having reached his Head,\nThe Miserable Boy was dead!\n\nWhen Nurse informed his Parents, they\nWere more Concerned than I can say:--\nHis Mother, as She dried her eyes,\nSaid, ``Well--it gives me no surprise,\nHe would not do as he was told!''\nHis Father, who was self-controlled,\nBade all the children round attend\nTo James's miserable end,\nAnd always keep a-hold of Nurse\nFor fear of finding something worse.
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Rasta, or the Rastafari movement, is a religious movement that accepts Haile Selassie I, the former emperor of Ethiopia, as King of Kings, Lord of Lords and the Lion of Judah as Jah (the Rastafari name for God, from a shortened form of Jehovah found in Psalms 68:4 in the King James Version of the Bible), and part of the Holy Trinity. The name Rastafari comes from Ras Täfäri, the pre-coronation name of Haile Selassie I. The movement emerged in Jamaica among working-class and peasant black people in the early 1930s, arising from an interpretation of Biblical prophecy, black social and political aspirations, and the teachings of their prophet, Jamaican black publicist and organiser Marcus Garvey, whose political and cultural vision helped inspire a new world view. The movement is sometimes called "Rastafarianism"; however, this is considered improper and offensive by Rastas.
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I would suggest you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_of_the_flies#War_and_human_nature and I would also get yourself familar with the idea's of Thomas Hobbes who believed without the laws of society man will live by the laws of the jungle (kill or be killed) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hobbes\n\nGood Luck!!!
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On fables, theres always the "Fox in the Sheeps Clothing" in the legend, If you want, The Legend of the Monkey... :)
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Excellent quote to use.  And yes, I agree with it.  As the saying goes, "The apple rots from within."
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"Ali bumaye!", which translates to English as "Ali kill him!", was the local's chant before and during the "rumble in the jungle" fight between Mohammed Ali and George Foreman in Zaire in 1974.
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The origin of the three lions goes something like this. King Henry I (1100-1135) was known as the 'Lion of Justice', and kept a small zoo which included lions. He either used two lions on his shield (as Duke of Normandy, a state whose flag has two lions) to start with, or used one from his nickname then added the other upon his second marriage to Adeliza of Louvain (1121), whose symbol was also a lion. The two-lion shield was thus a personal one for the king, not the country as a whole. Henry's grandson later came to the throne as Henry II (1154-1189), and married the doughty Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose symbol was yet another lion. By the year 1195 their son, Richard I, had combined his parents' arms (having shoved his father off the throne) to form three lions.
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Voltaire.  It's my favorite quote.
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I believe this is the entire quote:\n\n"Your hands cant hit what your eyes cant see, float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Mohamad Ali\n\n"Your Hands Cant Hit What Your Eyes Cant See, Float Like A Butterfly Sting Like A Bee!" Muhammad Ali
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I know it was in the movie.\n\nBut, "Field Of Dreams" was based on the book, "Shoeless Joe Jackson" by WP Kinsella.\n\nSo the quote may have come from there initially.
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wait.im confused..i thought lions live in the savanna?