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Let not your tongue say what your head may pay for.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads

Better be the head of a cat than the tail of a lion.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads

Where the devil cannot put his head he puts his tail.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about devil, heads

Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about world, heads

Better be the head of a lizard than the tail of a dragon.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads

Who throws a stone at the sky, it falls back on his head.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about sky, heads

There is no need to bind up one's head before it is broken.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about need, heads

He that has a head of glass must not throw stones at another.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads

To protest and knock one's head against the wall is what everybody can do.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads

He has done like the Perugian who, when his head was broken, ran home for his helmet.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about home, heads

The head of a dragon, the tail of a snake.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heads

Cover your head, and not cover your bottom.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heads

Like trying to put a comb upon the nun's head.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heads

The head of a monkey, the headdress of a prince.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heads

You can worship a sardine's head if you believe in it.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about faith, heads, contentment

The nail that sticks its head up is the one that gets hit.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heads

It is better to be the head of a chicken than the rear of an ox.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about heads

A fool and his head are soon parted.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads

Even a monk can't shave his own head.

Proverbs and old sayings Korean about heads

A man is as wise as his head, not his years.

Proverbs and old sayings about heads, man