Pet & Animal Proverbs
Insect Proverbs

• "Caution is not cowardice; even the ants march armed."
  - Ugandan Proverb
• "Where there is sugar, there are bound to be ants."
  - Malay Proverb
• "Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting."
  - Burmese Proverb
• "Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.."
  - Turkish Proverb
• "A shut mouth catches no flies."
  - Spanish Proverb
• "God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
  - Swedish Proverb
• "Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother."
  - Moorish Proverb
• "One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey then with twenty casks of vinegar."
  - French Proverb
• "Every worm has its hole."
  - Yiddish Proverb
• "At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish."
  - Thai Proverb
• "An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox."
  - Mexican Proverb
• You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.
  - Spanish Proverb
• Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.
  - Spanish Proverb