Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.


German Proverb

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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
PROVERB
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
ANONYMOUS
The lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must ...
NICCOLò MACHIAVELLI
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your li...
JOHN KEATS
Only the Social Democrats will truly defend the culture of the German people.
GUNTHER GRASS
I call on the authorities to release him immediately or publicly air the case against him and give h...
DAVID SCHLESINGER
A prince must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the ...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
He who flies proves himself guilty
DANISH PROVERB
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.
THE LION
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
Defend the church. Defend the family. Defend the non-profit community. Defend them against a governm...
RICK SANTORUM
Anyone who wants to defend the European social model must ensure that the German-French relationship...
GERHARD SCHROEDER
It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not en...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.
GEORGE CRABBE
The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the men...
ALEXIS CARREL
The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
WILLIAM BLAKE
When a lion doesn't get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won...
UDAY KOTAK
Even a dog mocks a lion when the lion is inside a cage.
AMIT KALANTRI
you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take...
PAULO COELHO
A kite flies against the wind, not with it.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed fr...
ELIZABETH I
To become a millionaire you must become a Lion, you can't even spell millionaire without the word Li...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE
There may be an indication that Mr. Creswell was acting in self-defense outside the bar. He may have...
CHARLES BRANSON
The flies don't even like this stuff.
JEFF HAYES
All she did that night is survive, and it is not against the law to survive. Caryn has the right to ...
BARBARA KESHEN
Wer nicht lächeln kann, soll kein Geschäft aufmachen. >
KIN LING FUCHS
It is very difficult to defend against the suicide bombers.
PAUL BEAVER
We intend to vigorously defend the charges brought against him.
MICHAEL ZASLAVSKY
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watche...
NICHOLSON BAKER
Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion.
UNKNOWN
No deer ever gave himself to a lion, because deer felt pity with lions's hunger!
DR. VINOD B. NAIR
There's a way to win when the other guy is pitching good against you. You've got to pitch and defend...
TONY LA RUSSA
We will defend ourselves vigorously against the allegations.
JEFF PRESCOTT
Even rabbits insult an dead lion.
PROVERB
Even hares insult a dead lion
PROVERB
We intend to vigorously defend ourselves against these claims.
ELIZABETH HOFF
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've wa...
NICHOLSON BAKER
I believe that the Government's first duty is to defend its citizens, to defend them against the har...
GORDON SMITH
The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
WALT DISNEY COMPANY
I am shocked at such allegations. Hank Jr has had to defend himself once already in Memphis last Fri...
KIRT WEBSTER
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however ...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR
Volatile. Fully prepared to defend myself. (when asked how would he describe himself)
JOHNNY ROTTEN
When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
AFRICAN PROVERB
Arthur himself has never seen anything done to the house - not even paint.
DEB MONAHAN
You catch a lot more flies with honey than vinegar, as they say, though I warrant you get even more ...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH
Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.
CASSANDRA CLARE
They've put Lance in Pandora's Box. And he can't defend himself.
BILL STAPLETON
He's frustrated and angry with the way the process works. He wants a chance to defend himself.
DONALD DEMAYO
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our mar...
TODD TIAHRT
Never fight all the idiots at once, because even a lion has to run away when he encounters a group o...
DR HITESH C SHETH
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unab...
C.S. LEWIS
Isn’t it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion ...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
When he is given a fair opportunity to defend himself, the allegations will be demonstrated to be un...
EDDIE GREENSPAN
For even flies shy away from formaldehyde-treated fish.
ATIEK HERWATI
Every now and then the government must defend itself against itself.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Since they won't tell him what he did, it's impossible for him to defend himself.
DANIEL PEREZ
Jake played a very solid match against a good German exchange student.
MIKE GEFFRE
We have to understand what the virus' tricks are ...to treat or defend against it.
MARSHALL BLOOM
One doesn't defend one's god; one's god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMES
For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when...
BIBLE
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
GILLES DELEUZE
Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.
THOMAS MERTON
The defendant needs to be fairly informed of the charges against which he must defend,
DAVID PARK
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Three flies can consume a carcass at the same rate as a full-grown lion. If the temperature and the ...
EMILY CRAIG
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others
LOPE DE VEGA
We had to defend against a bunch. There were too many coming against us, so we moved it inside.
AISLING MACRUNNELS
Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead
PROVERB
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
EDWARD ABBEY
The German government is continuing its efforts to clarify the fate of the German citizen who has be...
JENS PLOETNER
Obviously we will vigorously defend any lawsuit against Mr. Bennett.
GARY NAFTALIS
Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend themselves against the overtaxed.
BERNHARD BERENSON
He was not defending himself. How could I defend myself when I didn't have a weapon? ... How is he d...
BRENDA COLEMAN
It is not just economic spring returning to the German recovery, it looks like full blown summer has...
DAVID BROWN
Consideration of any kind are a crime against the German people and the soldier at the front.
WILHELM KEITEL
You can't pick and choose which types of freedom you want to defend. You must defend all of it or be...
SCOTT HOWARD PHILLIPS
A lioness has got a lot more power than the lion likes to think she has.
JACKI WEAVER
I intend to continue vigorously to defend the city's affirmative action program against any challeng...
LOUISE RENNE
A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.
ISAAC ASIMOV
If you are a deer, they are aggressive, but we are something that they don't want or need. But even ...
TROY SWAUGER
Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.).
GERMAN PROVERB
A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot.
GERMAN PROVERB
To change and to change for the better are two different things.
GERMAN PROVERB
Charity sees the need not the cause.
GERMAN PROVERB
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
GERMAN PROVERB
You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thin...
GERMAN PROVERB
A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an ...
GERMAN PROVERB
A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
GERMAN PROVERB

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Rast ich, so rost ich. (When I rest, I rust.).
GERMAN PROVERB
A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot.
GERMAN PROVERB
To change and to change for the better are two different things.
GERMAN PROVERB
Charity sees the need not the cause.
GERMAN PROVERB
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
GERMAN PROVERB
You know you're getting old when you look at a beautiful 19-year-old girl and you find yourself thin...
GERMAN PROVERB
A great war leaves the country with three armies - an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an ...
GERMAN PROVERB
A flatterer has water in one hand and fire in the other.
GERMAN PROVERB
Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day
GERMAN PROVERB
Loquacity and lying are cousins.
GERMAN PROVERB
No answer is also an answer.
GERMAN PROVERB
Luck sometimes visits a fool, but it never sits down with him.
GERMAN PROVERB
He who holds the ladder is as bad as the thief
GERMAN PROVERB
Envy eats nothing but its own heart
GERMAN PROVERB
He who borrows sells his freedom.
GERMAN PROVERB
He who borrows sells his freedom
GERMAN PROVERB
Buying is cheaper than asking.
GERMAN PROVERB
Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.
GERMAN PROVERB
Charity sees the need, not the cause.
GERMAN PROVERB
He who teaches children learns more than they do
GERMAN PROVERB
Never give advice unless asked.
GERMAN PROVERB
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
GERMAN PROVERB
It's the whole, not the detail, that matters.
GERMAN PROVERB
If you have a good friend, you don't need a mirror.
GERMAN PROVERB
He who teaches children learns more than they do.
GERMAN PROVERB
God gives, but man must open his hand.
GERMAN PROVERB
As fast as laws are devised, their evasion is contrived.
GERMAN PROVERB
Anger without power is folly.
GERMAN PROVERB
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
GERMAN PROVERB
To remain young while growing old is the highest blessing
GERMAN PROVERB
What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse
GERMAN PROVERB
When the fox preaches, look to your geese
GERMAN PROVERB
One must either be the hammer or the anvil.
GERMAN PROVERB
An example from the monkey: the higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind
GERMAN PROVERB
Politeness is what warmth is to wax
GERMAN PROVERB
Ambition and fleas both jump high
GERMAN PROVERB
A baptized Jew is a circumcised Christian
GERMAN PROVERB
Happy is the one who forgets that which cannot be changed
GERMAN PROVERB
You can do anything with children if only you play with them
GERMAN PROVERB
Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
GERMAN PROVERB
An old man loved is a winter with flowers
GERMAN PROVERB
Not every ass has long ears
GERMAN PROVERB
Where there are no swamps there are no frogs
GERMAN PROVERB
The stomach is easier filled than the eye
GERMAN PROVERB
The only real equality is in the cemetery
GERMAN PROVERB
Forever is a long bargain.
GERMAN PROVERB
To bury grief plant a seed.
GERMAN PROVERB
No woman marries an old man for God's sake.
GERMAN PROVERB
Who begins too much accomplished little.
GERMAN PROVERB
The morning hour has gold in its mouth.
GERMAN PROVERB
Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.
GERMAN PROVERB
Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.
GERMAN PROVERB
In bad fortune hold out, in good hold in.
GERMAN PROVERB
Begin to weave and God will give the thread.
GERMAN PROVERB
He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth
GERMAN PROVERB
A teacher is better than two books
GERMAN PROVERB
A fence lasts three years, a dog lasts three fences, a horse lasts three dogs, and a man lasts three...
GERMAN PROVERB
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.
GERMAN PROVERB
If you put out another's candle, you also will be in the dark
GERMAN PROVERB
Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power
GERMAN PROVERB
He who likes cherries soon learns to climb
GERMAN PROVERB
If the eye does not want to see, neither light nor glasses will help
GERMAN PROVERB
Except for the night, we could never know the stars
GERMAN PROVERB
Silence is a fence around wisdom
GERMAN PROVERB
The wise man has long ears and a short tongue
GERMAN PROVERB
Who speaks ill of others to you will speak ill of you to others
GERMAN PROVERB
When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black
GERMAN PROVERB
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs
GERMAN PROVERB
If the old dog barks, he gives counsel
GERMAN PROVERB
A bad penny always comes back
GERMAN PROVERB
Many look with one eye at what they give, but with seven at what they receive
GERMAN PROVERB
He who blackens others does not whiten himself
GERMAN PROVERB
There is no one luckier than he who thinks himself so
GERMAN PROVERB
Empty heads are very fond of long titles
GERMAN PROVERB
Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.
GERMAN PROVERB
Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life
GERMAN PROVERB
God's mill goes slowly but grinds fine
GERMAN PROVERB
To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love.
GERMAN PROVERB
Better an honest enemy than a false friend
GERMAN PROVERB
Joy and sorrow are next door neighbors
GERMAN PROVERB
A good speaker makes a good liar.
GERMAN PROVERB
What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
GERMAN PROVERB
To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog
GERMAN PROVERB
Money lent to a friend must be recovered from an enemy
GERMAN PROVERB
The fatter the flea the leaner the dog.
GERMAN PROVERB
Between the anvil and the hammer.
GERMAN PROVERB
Do not despise an insignificant enemy or a slight wound
GERMAN PROVERB
Coffee and love are best when they are hot
GERMAN PROVERB
There is no better gambling than not to gamble
GERMAN PROVERB
Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
GERMAN PROVERB
A good neighbor doubles the value of a house.
GERMAN PROVERB
Wealth lost---something lost; honor lost---much lost; Courage lost---all lost.
GERMAN PROVERB
Weeping bride, laughing wife, laughing bride, weeping wife.
GERMAN PROVERB
He who teaches a boy teaches three: a youth, a young man, and an old man
GERMAN PROVERB
The more laws the less justice
GERMAN PROVERB
A good name is a second inheritance
GERMAN PROVERB
There is no eel so small but it hopes to become a whale
GERMAN PROVERB
Always something new, seldom something good.
GERMAN PROVERB
Blind zeal can only do harm
GERMAN PROVERB
An uneducated person is like an unpolished mirror
GERMAN PROVERB
Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long.
GERMAN PROVERB
Who accepts nothing has nothing to return
GERMAN PROVERB
He who prizes little things is worthy of great ones
GERMAN PROVERB
A young doctor means a new graveyard
GERMAN PROVERB
Long is not forever
GERMAN PROVERB
The oldest trees often bear the sweetest fruit
GERMAN PROVERB
Those who don't pick roses in summer won't pick them in winter either
GERMAN PROVERB
Be silent, or say something better than silence
GERMAN PROVERB
Not to be ashamed of sin is to sin double
GERMAN PROVERB
People show their character by what they laugh at
GERMAN PROVERB
Never give advice unasked
GERMAN PROVERB
Learned fools exceed all fools
GERMAN PROVERB
It is better to trust the eyes rather than the ears.
GERMAN PROVERB
Speaking comes by nature, silence by understanding
GERMAN PROVERB
Those that rule must hear and be deaf, must see and be blind.
GERMAN PROVERB
Who rides slow, must saddle betimes
GERMAN PROVERB
For the diligent, a week has seven days; for the slothful, seven tomorrows
GERMAN PROVERB
The greatest step is out the door.
GERMAN PROVERB
Charity sees the need, not the cause
GERMAN PROVERB
Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses
GERMAN PROVERB
Beauty is a good letter of introduction
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The worse scoundrels make the best preachers
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Those who tickle themselves may laugh when they please
GERMAN PROVERB
One nail drives out another
GERMAN PROVERB
He who conquers his anger has conquered an enemy
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When God says To-day, the devil says To-morrow.
GERMAN PROVERB
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GERMAN GREF
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PROVERB
To know and not to do is not to know
PROVERB
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
PROVERB
The time to make friends is before you need them.
PROVERB
Short judgments make long friends.
PROVERB
It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.
PROVERB
A friend is someone who doesn't like the same people you do.
PROVERB
Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
PROVERB
Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.
PROVERB
From small beginnings come great things.
PROVERB
Some will, some don't, so what!
PROVERB
Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
PROVERB
Try and trust will move mountains.
PROVERB
He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.
PROVERB
Make peace with man and war with your sins.
PROVERB
A sin confessed is half forgiven.
PROVERB
All sins cast long shadows.
PROVERB
Simplicity is the seal of truth.
PROVERB
A silent mouth is melodious.
PROVERB
Silence implies consent.
PROVERB
The Laws of Clothing Shopping:
If you like it, they don't have it in your size.
If you like it...
PROVERB
Shame is worse than death.
PROVERB
God likes help when helping people.
PROVERB
One is rated by others as he rates himself.
PROVERB
Attack is the best form of defense.
PROVERB
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth.
PROVERB
A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.
PROVERB
When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB
It is better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB
Better to be safe than sorry.
PROVERB
Kings have many ears and eyes.
PROVERB
It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday.
PROVERB
Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember t...
PROVERB
A soft answer turneth away wrath.
PROVERB
Cunning surpasses strength.
PROVERB
What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.
PROVERB
Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dr...
PROVERB
The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
PROVERB
Two great talkers will not travel far together.
PROVERB
A closed mouth catches no flies.
PROVERB
He who comes from afar may lie without fear of contradiction as he is sure to be listened to with th...
PROVERB