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If you shoot your arrows at stones, you will damage them.
Lower Austria Proverb
Do not scare the birds you are going to shoot.
Madagascan Proverb
Do not shoot a glass arrow into a painted deer.
Moroccan Proverb
Let rats shoot arrows at each other.
Sudanese Proverb
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
Japanese Proverb
To bend a bamboo, start when it is a shoot.
Malay Proverb
To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming.
English Proverb
The cat has leave to look at the queen and the queen has leave to shoot it.
Irish Proverb
If you see a Greek and a wolf, avoid the wolf and shoot the Greek.
Sicilian Proverb
A blind man may sometimes shoot a crow.
Dutch Proverb
Using a cannon to shoot a mosquito.
Dutch Proverb
You can best shoot an eagle with an arrow made from its own feathers.
Russian Proverb
Shoot a daw and a crow, and soon you'll hit a falcon.
Russian Proverb
Draw the bow but don't shoot -- it is a bigger threat to be intimidated than to be hit.
Chinese Proverb
Shoot at someone's shadow with sand.
Chinese Proverb
When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.
Arabic Proverb
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbour. It makes you shoot at your landlord – and it makes you miss him.
Irish Proverb
He did not shoot the hare but the pot is already on the fire.
Hungarian Proverb
If I had a dog as daft, I would shoot him.
Scottish Proverb
A hunter who has only one arrow does not shoot with careless aim.
Nigerian Proverb
If it were God's will, you could shoot with a broom too.
Yiddish Proverb
He must shoot well who always hits the mark.
Dutch Proverb
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