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When the fox preaches, look to the geese.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Poverty is cunning; it catches even a fox.

Proverbs and old sayings German about poverty

When the fox preaches, look to your geese.

Proverbs and old sayings German

An old fox does not run twice into the snare.

Proverbs and old sayings German about old, olderness

The fox changes his skin, but keeps the rogue.

Proverbs and old sayings German

What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.

Proverbs and old sayings German

When the fox wants to catch geese, he wags his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Where the lion's skin falls short, borrow of the fox.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Red is Love's colour, said the wooer to his foxy charmer.

Proverbs and old sayings German about love

He who has to do with foxes must look after his hen-roost.

Proverbs and old sayings German

A fox is not caught twice in the same snare.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

When the fox cannot reach the grapes he says they are not ripe.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

The fox that waits until the chicken falls from the perch dies from hunger.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about hunger

Better be a tail for the lions than the head of the foxes.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

A sleeping fox catches no hare, chicken.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

One cannot strip two hides from one fox.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

One first drives off the fox, before taking the chickens home and blaming them for straying.

Proverbs and old sayings Igbo about home

In the end, all foxes meet at the furrier's.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about end

Necessity can change a lion into a fox.

Proverbs and old sayings about change

Never ask a fox to mind the hens.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about mind