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You can pull back your leg, but not your committed word.

Proverbs and old sayings about word, contentment

Slow in word, swift in deed.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about word

A kind word warms for three winters.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about word

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about word, bad luck, bad

Swiftest horse cannot overtake the word once spoken.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about word

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about anger, trap, word

If one word does not succeed, ten thousand are of no avail.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about word

A word once spoken, an army of chariots cannot overtake it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about army, word

Don't mention the word dwarf in front of a short person.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about word, people

Read critically, and you will find each word worth a thousand ounces of gold.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about word, contentment

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about chance, past, word, life, things

Take the bull by the horns and the man at his word.

Proverbs and old sayings Columbian about word, man

The word goes out but the message is lost.

Proverbs and old sayings about word

Every word has three definitions and three interpretations.

Proverbs and old sayings about word

A man's word is his honour.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about honour, word, man

To the good listener, half a word is enough.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about word, good, good luck

One word beforehand is better than ten afterwards.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about word

A man is bound by his word, an ox with a hempen cord.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about word, man

When the word is in the mouth you must caress the sheath.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about word, contentment

A word is enough to the wise.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about word