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When a draco has eaten much fruit, it seeks the juice of the bitter lettuce; it has been seen to do this.
~ Aristotle

The dragon is a serpent destitute of venom;
its head placed beneath the threshold of a door, the gods being duly propitiated by prayers, will ensure good fortune to the house, it is said.
~ Pliny

I know how the birds fly, how the fishes swim, how animals run. But there is the Dragon. I cannot tell how it mounts on the winds through the clouds and flies through heaven. Today I have seen the Dragon.
~ Confucius, after meeting Lao-Tze, founder of Taoism

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'Never tickle a sleeping dragon'.
~ Hogwarts' school motto, of the Harry Potter series

Qn: Why did you choose "never tickle a sleeping dragon" as your motto?

Ans: Lots of schools have pointless mottos like 'reach for the stars'
or 'persevere and endure'; I wanted something useful.
~ Chat interview with J. K. Rowling

New Year is a dragon. New Year is the most ferocious
of all sea dragons. It lives in a palace at the bottom
of the sea.
~ The Dragon New Year, David Bouchard

Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan and sail
round the high-pooped galleys, as they do on the delightful
maps of those ages when books on geography
were actually readable.
~ Excerpt from 'The Decay of Lying', Oscar Wilde

In the Dark Ages, Magic was a weapon. Love was a mystery.
Adventure was everywhere...And Dragons were real.
~ Poster tag of Dragonslayer [1981]

"Dragons don't ask for maidens," he (Selendrile) said.
"Dragons are offered maidens."
~ Dragon's Bait, Vivian Vande Velde

Yet to a truly long-lived being - an elf, for example, or
a dragon - minutes can pass tenfold, a hundredfold, without
arousing interest or concern. A single such interval is
space for a slow inhalation, or an idle thought. It is certainly
not time enough for serious cogitation, never enough for
the making of an important decision.
~ Fistandantilus Reborn, Douglas Niles

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon
himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the
abyss will gaze into you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"My word of wisdom for the day is this: Old dragons,
like old thorns, can still prick. And I am a very
old dragon. Take care."
~ The Dragon's Boy, Jane Yolen

A dragon lives forever, but not so little boys
Painted wings and giants's rings make way for other toys.
~ Puff the Magic Dragon, Peter Yarrow and Leonard Tipton

"It's a funny thing being taken under the wing of a dragon;
it's warmer than you think."
~ From the motion picture Gangs of New York

If you don't believe in dragons,
It is curiously true
That the dragons you disparage
Choose to not believe in you.
~ Jack Prelutsky

If you happen upon the skull of a dragon,
leave that place quickly.
For whatever killed it, may still be around.
~ Thieves' Proverb

Long live dragons.
~ Dragon-lovers' sign-off

Dragons have a different perspective on things than mortals do.
...If dragons weren't remarkably vain and easy to manipulate I'd
have gone mad years ago.
~ Killer in the Reign, Rosemary and India Edghill

..His skin more hard than brass was found,
That sword nor spear could pierce nor wound.
~ St. George and the Dragon, Olde English

“I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon
he was heartily afraid of the princess.”
~ G.K. Chesterton

"Dragons, you know, we have a good deal of biology and zoology about the dragon; we know their habits. The dragon tends to guard things, and he usually has these guarded in a cave...
Now dragons don’t know what to do either with beautiful girls or gold, but they just hang on. There are people like this. We call them creeps."
~ Joseph Campbell

Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon.
Source: (Zen)

"Oh to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of heaven."
~ O to be a dragon, Marianne Moore; contributed by Stacy

[on the subject of dragons]: One must believe before they can see the magic.
~ Connie Hill, visitor to Dragonsinn [early days in 2000]

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