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If there's bitterness in the heart, sugar in the mouth won't make life sweeter.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about life, heart

If your mouth were a knife, it would cut off your lips.

Proverbs and old sayings

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes:

Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.
And Eye and ears, and a mouth and a nose.
Head and shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes.

Traditional Songs

Throw a lucky man in the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings about fishing, man

Even when a snake doesn't bit, do not put your finger in it's mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Its better to stumble with your feet than to stumble with your mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

A grasshopper that sleeps about will be soon awake in a lizard's mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Until the rotten tooth is pulled out cautiously, the mouth will not have rest.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about rest

If you wait for the roasted liver to cool it will get cold in someone else's mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment

Food gained by fraud tastes sweet to a man, but he ends up with gravel in his mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about end, food, man

It is not with saying honey, Honey, that sweetness will come into the mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you want to know how long a man's tongue is, let him use his mouth to lick honey from a plate.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about use, man, contentment

The rabbit that dances on the broken branch of a high tree must look down to see how many mouths are opened wide beneath.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Perhaps no one has a finer command of a language than he who keeps his mouth shut.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about language, americans

If you spit laying down it will only come back in your mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Throw him into the river and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings about fishing

Words from the heart reach the heart, words from the mouth reach the ear.

Proverbs and old sayings about word, heart

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Proverbs and old sayings about fishing, man

When asked, What news from the sea? The fish replied I have a lot to say, but my mouth is full of water.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about fishing, water