— Danish The best way to avoid punishment is to fear it.
— Chinese The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.
— French The beginning of wisdom is the fear of God.
— Irish The anvil fears no blows.
— English ❖ The starving dog fears not the stick.
— Japanese The anvil does not fear a good sledgehammer.
— Danish The fearless man is the first to be wounded.
— Serbo-Croatian The fear of war is worse than war itself.
— Italian The wet man fears no rain.
— Rumanian ❖ The snake is feared because of its mouth.
— African (Fulani) The scalded cat fears cold water.
— English They that worship God merely for fear,
would worship the devil too, if he appear.
— English Too much fear creates slavery.
— African (Swahili) Truth fears no colors.
— English ❖ Two have less to fear than one.
— Russian We should fear him who sends us a message,
not him to whom we are sent.
— African (Yoruba) What causes any battle to be lost is
the needless fear of the enemy's strength.
— Filipino When we have gold we are in fear,
when we have none we are in danger.
— English When there is a way out, there is no need for fear.
— Yiddish ❖ Where there is no fear, there is no pity.
— Estonian Where there is fear, there is shame.
— Greek Who loves, fears.
— Italian Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.
— Italian Who is in the right, fears. Who is in the wrong, hopes.
— Italian ❖ Who has shoes does not fear thorns.
— Kenyan Who has been almost drowned fears not the rain.
— Albanian Who fears no shame comes to no honor.
— Dutch Who created thunder does not fear it.
— Ethiopian ❖❖❖