Arabic Proverbs relating to animals
• He who takes a donkey up a minaret must bring it down.
• Better a thousand dogs barking for you than one barking at you.
• Hold on to a dog’s tail until you have crossed the river.
• The clouds are not harmed by barking of dogs.
• Better a stray dog than a caged lion.
• When a cat and rat join forces, the country is destroyed.
• A gazelle needs no ornaments to be beautiful.
• Ask the price of a fish before it has been caught.
• The bedbug has a hundred children and says “How few”.
• The dung- beetle seeing its child on the wall, thinks it sees a pearl on a thread.
• Money begets money, lice beget lice.
• A slaughtered sheep does not suffer when one removes its skin.
• It is better to herd cattle than to rule men.
• A bird in the hand is worth two on a wing.
• The bull protects his nose with his horns.
• A lion’s den never lacks bones.
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