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:
- He goes long barefoot that waits for dead man's shoes
- Let every man praise the bridge he goes over
- Man proposes but God disposes
- To give a lark to catch a kite
- That's a horse of another colour
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- No man loves his fetters, be they made of gold
- Fine feathers make fine birds
- A man can die but once
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil
- Every man has his hobby-horse
- If you agree to carry the calf, they'll make you carry the cow
- You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make him drink
- Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools
- A hungry man is an angry man