An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue
Быка берут за рога, а человека - за язык.
Всякая сорока от своего языка погибает. Болтуна язык до добра не доведет. Язык мой - враг мой. Говори, да не проговаривайся.
Другие пословицы:
- Many a good cow has a bad calf
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- To fish in troubled waters
- A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out
- To give a lark to catch a kite
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- Children are poor men's riches
- In the country of the blind one-eyed man is a king
- If you sell the cow, you sell her milk too
- If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at him
- If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
- The camel going to seek horns lost his ears
- A man can die but once
- Little pigeons can carry great messages