To cook a hare before catching him

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• Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot
• While the grass grows the horse starves
• The last straw breaks the camel's back
• A curst cow has short horns
• Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
• As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
• It is a poor mouse that has only one hole
• An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
• Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free
• To kill two birds with one stone
• Hares may pull dead lions by the beard
• A thief knows a thief as a wolf knows a wolf
• A fox is not taken twice in the same snare
• If you run after two hares, you will catch neither
• Old birds are not caught with chaff