A collection of proverbs and quotes in which at least one mammal is mentioned.
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Though your enemy is the size of an ant, look upon him as an elephant.
To be afraid of wolves, to be without mushrooms.
To be as small as a vinegar fly and want to shit like an elephant.Too big for your boots
To dangle a carrot in front of a donkey.To tempt someone
To put lipstick on a pig.Trying to make someone or something look attractive when it clearly will not work.
To put saffron in cooking sheep's paunch.Wasting resources or talent.
Trust not a horse's heel nor a dog's tooth.
What is it like to be a bat?Thomas Nagel
What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse.(unknown author)
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.George Bernard Shaw
When a monkey doesn't get a banana, he eats chillies.
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
When spiders' webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
When the ass begins to bray, surely rain will come that day.
When the cat is away the mice will play.
When the cat's away, the mice play.Without supervision, people misbehave.
When the fox cannot reach the grapes he says they are not ripe.
When the monkey can't reach the ripe banana with his hand, he says it is not sweet.
When the monkey can't reach the ripe banana, he says it is not sweet.
When they started to shoe the Sultan's horse, the beetle stretched out its leg.
Whenever I hear of the capture of rare beetles, I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet.Charles Darwin
Where there are dogs there are fleas.Where there is smoke there is fire
Who makes himself a sheep will be eaten by the wolves.
With money, a dragon, without it, a worm.
You are like a tick in a dog's ear.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.You can offer someone an opportunity to do something but you can't force them to do it.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.It's difficult to teach new things to an older person who is used to do something in his own way.
You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.Yuval Noah Harari
Source: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.Bible
Source: Song of Solomon
Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.Bible
Source: Song of Solomon
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