If everything that came from your tongue were to come into your hands, then every beggar would be a pasha.
Proverbs and old sayings Turkish
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A man dies but his tongue does not rot.
Proverbs and old sayings about man
The tongue of co-wives is bitter.
Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about bitter
Polygamy makes a husband a double-tongued man.
Proverbs and old sayings Ugandan about husband, man
He who licks knives will soon cut his tongue.
Proverbs and old sayings Ukrainian
The human tongue is more poisonous than a bee's sting.
Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about human imperfections
He that has a tongue in his head may find his way anywhere.
Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese about heads
The foolish has a wagging tongue.
Proverbs and old sayings Welsh
Let not your tongue cut your throat.
Proverbs and old sayings Welsh
To have a clear tongue is better than having goods which you can't manage well.
Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about contentment
The entire world rests on the tip of the tongue.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about world
May God protect you from goyishe hands and yiddishe tongues.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about god, contentment
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks.
Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about man
He is not honest who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company the soup is hot.
Proverbs and old sayings Yugoslavian about companies
Silence is the best answer to the stupid. The fool has his answer on the tip of his tongue.
Proverbs and old sayings South American about silence, americans
He who chews two bones at the same time will surely bite his tongue.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about time
A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about word
It's not the aroma of the soup that tells you whether it's sweet or not, but it's the tongue's taste.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about contentment
