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Don't fight a lion with a stick.

Proverbs and old sayings about fight

A lion can run faster than we can, but we can run farther.

Proverbs and old sayings

By the claw you may know the lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about state, mind

Kindness can pluck the whiskers of a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan

Once a man has been bitten by a lion, he buys a dog.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Even a weak lion is not bitten by a dog.

Proverbs and old sayings

Necessity turns lion into fox.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

For his master the dog is a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

The dog is a lion in his own house.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about home, house

Be a lion at home and a fox abroad.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about home

Necessity changes a lion into a fox.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

He who doesn't go to war roars like a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about war

When a lion is old, he becomes the plaything of jackals.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about old, olderness

Destroy the lion while he is but a whelp.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about destruction

The lion's share.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

An ass in a lion's skin.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

The lion won't turn on a barking puppy.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Better be the head of an ass than the tail of a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about heads

He's as bold as a lammermuir lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish