When elephants fight, the grass dies.
-- African Proverb

"If a girl treads on a cat's tail, she will not find a husband before a year is out."
-- French proverb

"Books and cats and fair-haired little girls make the best furnishings for a room."
-- French proverb

"You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats."
-- Colonial American Proverb

Whenever the cat of the house is black
The lasses of lovers will have no lack.
-- Old English proverb

"A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song."
-- Chinese Proverb

"One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey then with twenty casks of vinegar."
-- French Proverb

"Beware of a silent dog and still water."
-- Latin Proverb

"In a cat's eyes, all things belong to the cat."
-- English Proverb

"Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter."
-- African Proverb

"Never try to catch two frogs with one hand."
-- Chinese Proverb

"The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's."
-- Polish Proverb

"If the camel once get his nose in a tent, the body will soon follow."
-- Saudi Proverb

"Listen to all, plucking a feather from every passing goose, but, follow no one absolutely."
-- Chinese Proverb

"Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother."
-- Moorish Proverb

"Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them."
-- Danish Proverb

"One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him."
-- Chinese Proverb

"Live with wolves, and you learn to howl."
-- Spanish Proverb

"In time, even a bear can be taught to dance."
-- Yiddish Saying

"The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's."
-- Polish Proverb

"Whoever needs milk, bows to the animal."
-- Yiddish Saying

"Do not respond to a barking dog."
-- Moroccan Jewish saying

"The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion."
-- Arab Proverb

"If you were born lucky, even your rooster will lay eggs."
-- Russian Proverb