A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

linen see never CHOOSE your women or your linen by candlelight; one does not WASH one’s dirty linen in public.
lining see every CLOUD has a silver lining.
link see a CHAIN is no stronger than its weakest link.
linstock (a forked staff to hold a lighted match): see the COBBLER to his last and the gunner to his linstock.
lion see a LIVE dog is better than a dead lion; MARCH comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb; a MOUSE may help a lion; when SPIDER webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Until the LIONS produce their own historian, the story of the hunt will glorify only the hunter
West African proverb.

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  2000 C. ACHEBE Home and Exile 73 ‘Until the lions produce their own historian, the story of the hunt will glorify only the hunter.’ 2003 N. GORDIMER in Creative Circle: Artist, Critic, and Translator in African Literature 7 It has been a long haul, and I am not going to roll-call all the great names of Africa and her diaspora who have achieved it. Thinking of his appropriate metaphor for the beginning of the African story, Chinua Achebe recounts a proverb: ‘Until the lions produce their own historian, the story of the hunt will glorify only the hunter.’ 2004 Road to Democracy in South Africa 1.vii Thus it was said the ‘The hunters will always be the victors until the lions have their own historian.’ 2006 on www.womenscenter.vt.edu I would like to give special thanks to the Women’s Center. Their work reminds me of a Benin, Ghana, and Togo proverb: Gnatola ma no kpon sia, eyenabe adelan to kpo mi sena. (Ewe-mina) Until the lion has his or her own storyteller, the hunter will always have the best part of the story. Thank you all for being the storytellers of unequal powers. "fame and obscurity; history
  

lip see there’s MANY a slip between cup and lip.