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:
- To fish in troubled waters
- Let every man praise the bridge he goes over
- A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
- Neither fish nor flesh
- Many a good cow has a bad calf
- It is a poor mouse that has only one hole
- Like master, like man
- To put (set) the cart before the horse
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- To measure another man's foot by one's own last
- When pigs fly
- Calamity is man's true touchstone
- Never fry a fish till it's caught
- When the fox preaches, take care of your geese
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel