有關魚類的諺語:
　　The best fish swim near the bottom. 好魚常在水底游.
　　Never offer to teach fish to swim. 不要教魚去游泳.(不要班門弄斧.)
　　Go to the sea, if you would fish well. 不入虎穴,焉得虎子.
　　There's as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it. 海里的好魚多的是.(強中更有強中手.)
　　It is a silly fish that is caught twice with the same bait. 笨魚才會咬兩次鉤.(智者不上兩次當.)
　　If water is noisy, there are no fish in it. 咆哮的水中無魚.(夸夸其談的人沒有真才識學.)
　　有關貓的諺語:
　　A cat has nine lives. 貓有九命.(吉人自有天相.)
　　Cats hide their claws. 貓總是藏起自己的爪子.(知人知面不知心.)
　　All cats are grey in the dark.黑暗處的貓都是灰色的.(人未出名時看起來都是差不多.)
　　A gloved cat catches no mice. 戴手套的貓抓不到老鼠.(不愿吃苦的人成不了大事業.)
　　When the weasel and the cat make a marriage, it is a very ill presage. 黃鼠狼和貓結親沒好事.
　　Who will bell the cat? 誰去給貓系鈴鐺?(誰愿為大家冒風險?)
　　The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream. 貓偷吃奶油時總是閉著眼.(掩耳盜鈴,自欺欺人.)
　　There are more ways of killing a cat than by choking it with butter. 殺死貓的辦法不僅僅是用黃油噎死它.(達到目的的途徑很多.)
　　有關狗的諺語:
　　He who would hang his dog gives out first that it is mad. 欲加之罪,何患無辭.
　　Love me, love my dog. 愛屋及烏.
　　Every dog has his day. 人人皆有得意時.
　　Barking dogs seldom bite. 愛叫的狗不咬人.
　　All are not thieves that dogs bark at. 狗見了叫的不一定都是賊.(不要以貌取人.)
　　Don't be a dog lying in the manger.莫學狗占馬槽不吃草.(不要占著茅坑不拉屎.)
　　Dog does not eat dog. 狗不吃同類.(本是同根生,相煎何太急?)
　　A son never thinks his mother ugly, and a dog never shuns its owner's home however shabby it is. 兒不嫌母丑,狗不嫌家貧.