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ID:280
You don't put the cat in charge of the cream.

  - Yiddish ProverbTopics: wisdom animals
ID:487
When dogs howl, the Angel of Death is in town; when they play, the prophet Elijah is.

  - Talmud, Bava QammaTopics: health and medicine animals
ID:488
You should not train a dog unless it is fastened by a chain.

  - Talmud, Bava QammaTopics: animals
ID:490
Who breeds an unruly dog in his house keeps kindness away.

  - Talmud, ShabbatTopics: animals
ID:492
The worst dog gets the best bone.

  - Isaac Leibush PeretzTopics: wisdom animals
ID:493
There is nobody as wise as a whipped dog.

  - Shalom AleichemTopics: wisdom animals
ID:496
A dog which is not in its home-town does not bark.

  - Samuel Joseph AgnonTopics: animals
ID:501
When an ox falls, his butchers are many. [When a man is down, his enemies multiply.]

  - Lamentations R.Topics: wisdom animals
ID:522
The king of birds is the eagle.

  - Talmud, ChagigahTopics: animals
ID:523
If the eagle goes walking, he will be trodden on like any worm.

  - S. Ben ZionTopics: wisdom animals
ID:549
The elephant is frightened of the gnat.

  - Talmud, ShabbatTopics: wisdom animals
ID:659
Whoso casts a stone at a bird will frighten it away; and whoso abuses a friend will estrange affection.

  - Ben Sira 22:23Topics: friendship animals
ID:1008
Go to the ant, you sluggard, consider her ways and be wise!

  - Proverbs (Mishle) 6:6Topics: wisdom animals
ID:1238
Grasp not the horns of a powerful ox!

  - Hai GaonTopics: animals
ID:1296
Man is likened unto a bird. A bird can fly upward and upward so long as it moves its wings.

  - Yisrael Salanter (Lipkin)Topics: wisdom animals
ID:1407
Two dogs were bad friends. One day the wolf attacked one of them. Quoth the other: 'If I do not help him today, the wolf will destroy him and tomorrow attack me.' So they joined forces and killed the wolf.

  - Talmud, SanhedrinTopics: friendship war animals
ID:1547
A scholar who abandons study is like 'a bird that strays from the nest.'

  - Talmud, ChagigahTopics: education animals
ID:1798
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

  - Groucho MarxTopics: humor books animals
ID:1998
Not everyone who is not a wolf must be a lamb.

  - Moshe Leib LilienblumTopics: wisdom animals
ID:1999
If the wolf speaks of peace, gather in your flock at once!

  - Mishle YehoshuaTopics: peace animals
ID:2000
If a wolf comes to kill you, you are not bound to pat its back.

  - Samuel Joseph AgnonTopics: peace animals war
ID:2008
I had rather dwell with a lion and a dragon than keep house with a wicked woman.

  - Ben Sira 25:16Topics: women marriage animals
ID:2154
My favorite animal is steak.

  - Fran LebowitzTopics: food and drink humor animals
ID:2155
No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

  - Fran LebowitzTopics: humor animals
ID:489
One should not rear a vicious dog in one's home.

  - Talmud, KetubotTopics: animals home and family
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