Lions Proverbs (167 Proverbs)
- The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further off than the roar of a lion.
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- Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.
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- Better to be a free dog than a caged lion.
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- An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.
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- A drunkard can be a sheep, a monkey or a lion.
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- Don't be a lion in your own house.
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- The hen lives by pickings, as the lion by prey.
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- Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead.
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- Bite me not, my name is little grizzle; had I a little tail I should be a little lion.
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- If the lion's skin cannot, the fox's shall.
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- A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw.
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- He who killeth the lion when absent feareth a mouse when present.
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- Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
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- A living dog is better than a dead lion.
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- When spiders' webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
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- When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.
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- The Fox's wiles will never enter the lion's head.
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- Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
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- Better a living dog than a dead lion.
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- It is little honor to the lion to seize the mouse.
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- The bachelor is a peacock, the engaged man a lion, and the married man a jackass.
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- What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
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- Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up.
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- Where the lion's skin falls short, borrow of the fox.
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- A cat in a cage becomes a lion.
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- It is better to be the head of a mouse than the tail of a lion.
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- Better be the head of a cat than the tail of a lion.
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- The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions.
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- By the first glass a lamb, the second a lion, and the third a pig.
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- Who takes a lion at a distance fears a mole present.
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- Where the skin of the lion does not suffice, we must join that of the fox.
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- When the lion's skin falls short, piece it out with that of the fox.
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- When the lion is dead the hares jump upon his carcase.
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- A lion may be beholden to a mouse.
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- A honey-comb in the mouth of a lion!
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- Those who do not go to war roar like lions.
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- Fear an ignorant man more than a lion.
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- A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea.
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- Even a hare will insult a dead lion.
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- Despise not the weak: the gnat stings the eyes of the lion.
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- An old lion is better than a young ass.
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- If the lion's skin falls short, piece it out with that of the fox.
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- March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
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- Lions in time of peace; deer in war.
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- A dog will always be a dog, even if he is raised by lions.
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- You would frighten a lion with a mask!
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- You may know a lion by his claw.
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- The skin of a lion covering some mongrel beast.
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- The bear wants a tail and cannot be a lion.
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- For his master the dog is a lion.
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- Be a lion at home and a fox abroad.
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- As long as you stay in a group, the lion will stay hungry.
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- Even a weak lion is not bitten by a dog.
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- Once a man has been bitten by a lion, he buys a dog.
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- It's easy to say "May Allah roast the lion's mother," when the lion isn't there.
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- He who doesn't go to war roars like a lion.
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- Destroy the lion while he is but a whelp.
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- When a lion is old, he becomes the plaything of jackals.
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- The dog is a lion in his own house.
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- He flees from the roaring lion to the crouching lion.
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- A brave man is scared of a lion three times: first when he sees the tracks; second when he hears the first roar; and third when they are face to face.
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- The lion is known by the scratch of his claws.
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- A man is a lion in his own cause.
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- Better be the head of a rat than the tail of a lion.
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- Bachelor, a peacock; betrothed, a lion; married, an ass.
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- At twenty a man will be a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy a monkey, and at eighty nothing.
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- The lion is not so fierce as he is painted.
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- A live dog is better than a dead lion.
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- An army of deer would be more formidable commanded by a lion, than a an army of lions commanded by a stag.
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- Though thy enemy seems a mouse, yet watch him like a lion.
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- A hungry dog will bring a lion down.
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- The first drink makes you a frisky gazelle, the second an impetuous zebra, the third a roaring lion, and with the fourth you become a silly donkey.
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- Even rabbits insult an dead lion.
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- Little birds may pick a dead lion.
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- Necessity turns lion into fox.
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- Nourish not a lion's whelp.
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- Even hares insult a dead lion.
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- He makes a lion of a mouse.
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- A mouse may help a lion.
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- Two dogs can kill a lion.
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