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The whole arena tells them to kill the bull, yet the bull should kill no one.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

He that does not fear a bull must be a bull himself.

Proverbs and old sayings about fear

No matter how hard you try the bull will never give milk.

Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian about contentment

Milking the bull

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

There is always one bull of the kraal.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

When a stiff-necked bull stands with its four legs planted firmly and refuses to move, you cannot make it go ahead only by pulling it by the reins and using your whip.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

A fool bull will look only for the green grass without looking the danger of toppling over the steep valley.

Proverbs and old sayings about danger

If you are offered a bull, do not ask how much milk he will give.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

You take a bull by the horns and a man by his words.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about word, man, contentment

The bull should be taken by the horns, a man at his word.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu about word, man

Where there is a herd without a bull, a castrated ox will rule.

Proverbs and old sayings about rules

Take the bull by the horns and the man at his word.

Proverbs and old sayings Columbian about word, man

March cold reaches even bull's horns.

Proverbs and old sayings

At the beginning of January, take the bull to fields of heather.

Proverbs and old sayings about beginning

It is better to be a bull for a year than a cow for a hundred years.

Proverbs and old sayings Croatian

If it is to be luck, the bull may as well calve as the cow.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, good luck

A cow-year, a sad year; a bull-year, a glad year.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is bull brother.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about thieves, hunger, mother

Take a man by his word, take a bull by its horn.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about word, man

The sheep on the mountain is higher than the bull on the plain.

Proverbs and old sayings French