Eagles catch no flies.
Proverbs on a similar topic
- The voice of the people, the voice of God.
- One swallow does not make a summer.
- A fly in the ointment.
- One and none is all one.
- There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
- When one door shuts, another opens.
- Hares may pull dead lions by the beard.
- One scabbed sheep will mar a whole flock.
- A great ship asks deep waters.
- For one that is missing there's no spoiling a wedding.
- One flower makes no garland.
- The rotten apple injures its neighbours.
- When the tree is fallen, every one runs to it with his axe.
- In a long journey straw weighs.
- Dead dogs bite not.