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:
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice
- To flog a dead horse
- A blind man would be glad to see
- Crows do not pick crow's eyes
- A fox is not taken twice in the same snare
- Fish begins to stink at the head
- Every bird likes its own nest
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- Each bird loves to hear himself sing
- A cock is valiant on his own dunghill
- A drowning man will catch at a straw
- Gluttony kills more men than the sword
- A fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out
- Give never the wolf the wether to keep
- An unfortunate man would be drowned in a teacup