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A hatchet in the mouth is more harmful than a hatchet in the hand.

Proverbs and old sayings

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