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Wider ears and a short tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Let the poor man mind his tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about mind, man

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

One man uses his tongue, another his teeth.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about man

The whisperer's tongue is worse than serpent's venom.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

His tongue says little, but powerful is his right arm.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about rightness

Let a fool hold his tongue, and he will pass for a sage.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

It is more difficult to bridle the tongue than to conquer an army.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about army

Honey-tongued, soft spoken, malicious, and unprincipled in conduct.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about conduct

The teeth sometimes bite the tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan

A womans tongue cracks bones.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese

The tongue slow and the eyes quick.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about eyes

The throat must pay for what the tongue may say.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican

Let not the tongue speak what the head may have to pay for.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about heads

The tongue has no bone yet it crushes.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan

God speaks a foreign tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings about god

There is naught so vile as a fickle tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings

A lying tongue had bereft him of life, and all without reason of right.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, reason, rightness, life

The tongue of men is the whip of God.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about man, god

A sharp tongue will cut off its own head.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about heads