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:
- Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark
- To flog a dead horse
- Many a good cow has a bad calf
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot
- One scabby sheep will mar a whole flock
- All men can't be masters
- Like master, like man
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- If my aunt had been a man, she'd have been my uncle
- Money often unmakes the men who make it
- To cook a hare before catching him
- If you run after two hares, you will catch neither
- A wolf in sheep's clothing
- First catch your hare