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Beware of the goat that is in the lion's lair.

Proverbs and old sayings

Who is brave enough to tell the lion that his breath smells?

Proverbs and old sayings Berber

The righteous are bold as a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings

A lion cannot hear its own roar.

Proverbs and old sayings

Only a lion knows best its own needs and can best serve them.

Proverbs and old sayings

As the lion said, 'I will kill your lambs and you will remember my presence. '

Proverbs and old sayings

An army of stags led by a lion would be more formidable than one of lions led by a stag.

Proverbs and old sayings British

A lion lurks in everyone's heart; awake him not.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about heart

Wake not a sleeping lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

Don't be a lion in your own house.

Proverbs and old sayings Czech about home, house

A drunkard can be a sheep, a monkey or a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The hen lives by pickings, as the lion by prey.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

It is a base thing to tear a dead lion's beard off.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about things

If the lion's skin cannot, the fox's shall.

Proverbs and old sayings Romanian

A good surgeon must have a hawk's eye, a lion's heart and a woman's hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Dominican about heart, woman, good, good luck

Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

A trapped cat becomes a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings English

A man is a lion in his own cause.

Proverbs and old sayings English about man

A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's claw.

Proverbs and old sayings English

He who killeth the lion when absent feareth a mouse when present.

Proverbs and old sayings English about absent, present