A hatchet in the mouth is more harmful than a hatchet in the hand.
Proverbs and old sayings
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Uneaten soup and burned mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian
Do not use words that are too big for your mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about use, word
You can close the city gates but not the mouths of men.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about city, man, contentment
Don't talk with your mouth full.
Proverbs and old sayings Polish
Without work there won't be any bread in your mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Polish about work
Praise in own mouth is insult.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about praise
Honey is not for the ass's mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
A shut mouth keeps me out of strife.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
From plate to mouth you miss the soup.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about contentment
A fly doesn't enter in a closed mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
Shut your mouth and you'll catch no flies.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about trap, contentment
Open your purse, and I will open my mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
In a closed mouth the flies can't come in.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
The mouth that says Yes, can say No.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
A word from the mouth, a stone from the hand.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about word
The ripest fruit will not fall into your mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about fall
Between the hand and the mouth the soup is lost.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
Let not him that has a mouth ask another to blow.
Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese
His heart is in his mouth.
Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about heart
