| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Bear |
| | | An old bear is slow in learning to dance. German. | 1 |
| Catch the bear before you sell his skin. | 2 |
| Don’t play with the bear if you don’t want to be bit. Italian. | 3 |
| He must have iron nails that scratches with a bear. | 4 |
| He that hath eaten a bear pie will always smell of the garden. | 5 |
| If it were a bear it would bite you. (Applied to a person hunting for a thing mislaid, by a person observing him near to it.) | 6 |
| One cannot teach a bear to dance in a day. German. | 7 |
| One must catch the bear before he draws a ring through his nose. German. | 8 |
| One must not play on the nose of the sleeping bear. German. | 9 |
| One must not reach his hand to the hungry bear. German. | 10 |
| Savage bears agree with one another. Juvenal. | 11 |
| The bear wants a tail and cannot be lion. | 12 |
| The she bear thinks her cubs pretty. Italian. | 13 | | |
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