Animal-based sayings from around the world

[Vagabond]

1. The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on..... Tuareg.

 

2. A dog cannot bark with a bone in its mouth....India.

 

3. The lion that roars is not the lion that kills....Masai.

 

4. Man who sleep in den of tiger not dream long......Yunnan

 

5. Every time a goat bleats, it misses a mouthful of leaves......Macedonia

 

6. You cannot fatten a pig by weighing it....Sussex

 

7. Why buy a cow when milk is sold by the pint?...Guyana

 

8. It is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.....Poland

 

9. She wears mink by day, and fox at night....Hollywood

 

 

Anyone know any more?

[Newt]

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Chaucer - circa 1390

 

He who lies down with dogs, rises with fleas.

English - circa 1500

 

March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.

England - circa 1600

 

If march comes in like a lion it goes out like a lamb.

USA - unknown date but indicates that the reverse is also often true

 

A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man, who in endeavouring to crush it gave himself a hard slap.

Then said the fly jeeringly, "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?"

Phaedrus (~8 A.D.)

[severus]

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

~Mark Twain

 

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

~Winston Churchill