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 buy a pig in a poke
- A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
- One beats the bush, and another catches the bird
- Every man to his taste
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- Old birds are not caught with chaff
- All lay load on the willing horse
- As well be hanged for a sheep as for a lamb
- That cock won't fight
- Never offer to teach fish to swim
- Like master, like man
- One man, no man
- If an ass (donkey) bray at you, don't bray at him
- A drowning man will catch at a straw
- An ass loaded with gold climbs to the top of the castle