When the mouse has had its fill, the meal turns bitter.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about bitter
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When it is God's will to plague a man, a mouse can bite him to death.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about death, god, man
When a mouse has fallen into a meal sack, he thinks he is the miller himself.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch
That mouse will have a tail (i.e. The thing will have a long train of consequences).
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about consequences, trains, things
Two cocks in one house, a cat and a mouse, an old man and young wife, are always in strife.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wife, home, house, man, old, olderness
He who killeth the lion when absent feareth a mouse when present.
Proverbs and old sayings English about absent, present
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Proverbs and old sayings English
A mouse that wants to die goes to sniff the cat's nose.
Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian
The mouse is silent while laboring, but when the baby is conceived, she cries.
Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian
When the mouse is full, the flour tastes bitter.
Proverbs and old sayings about bitter
When the mouse is satisfied, the flour is bitter.
Proverbs and old sayings about bitter
It is a poor mouse that doesn't have more than one hole.
Proverbs and old sayings
A dead mouse feels no cold.
Proverbs and old sayings French
A muffled cat never caught a mouse.
Proverbs and old sayings French
The mouse has but one hole is soon caught.
Proverbs and old sayings French
One for the mouse, one for the crow, one to rot, one to grow.
Proverbs and old sayings French
No house without a mouse.
Proverbs and old sayings German about home, house
A cat is a lion to mouse.
Proverbs and old sayings German
The cat's play is the mouse's death.
Proverbs and old sayings German about death
What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse.
Proverbs and old sayings German about sport, death
