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:
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- All asses wag their ears
- To fish in troubled waters
- Agues come on horseback, but go away on foot
- All is fish that comes to his net
- A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- Time and tide wait for no man
- All men can't be first
- It is a good horse that never stumbles
- Men may meet but mountains never
- Neither fish nor flesh
- An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold
- Calamity is man's true touchstone
- The best fish smell when they are three days old
- Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools