The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
A hunter boasts about the game he bought. (Spanish)
All are not hunters that blow the horn. (German)
‘An animal chases me’ are not fitting words for a hunter. (Yoruban)
Deer hunter, waste not your arrow on the hare. (Chinese)
Every shot does not bring down a bird. (Dutch)
Good hunters track narrowly. (Dutch)
He that hunts others, must run himself. (German)
He that hunts two hares will catch neither. (French)
He who has no falcon, must hunt with owls. (Danish)
He who hunts with cats will catch mice. (Danish)
Hold your dog in readiness before you start the hare. (Danish)
If you would catch a fox you must hunt with geese. (Danish)
In small woods may be caught large hares. (Dutch)
Many a shot goes into the heather. (Irish)
One hunts the hare, and another eats it. (Danish)
Slaughter no more than you can well salt. (German)
The bird hunting a locust is unaware of the hawk hunting him. (Portuguese)
The dog that starts the hare is as good as the one that catches it. (German)
The hunter in pursuit of an elephant does not stop to throw stones at birds. (Ugandan)
The hunter never sees the mountain, nor the merchant the sea. (Chinese)
The noisy fowler catches no birds. (English)
The one who hunts deer pays no mind to hares. (Japanese)
There is no hunting but with old hounds. (French)
To scare a bird is not the way to catch it. (French)
Until the lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. (Nigerian)
What’s sport to the hunter is death to the deer. (German)
When its time has arrived, the prey comes to the hunter. (Persian)
When the hares are all caught, the hunter will boil his hound. (Chinese)
When the mantis hunts the locust, he forgets the shrike that’s hunting him. (Chinese)
Whoso hunts with cats will catch nothing but rats. (Dutch)
You cannot hunt with a tied dog. (Albanian)
You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. (English)
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