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:
- When pigs fly
- The tailor makes the man
- A curst cow has short horns
- To lock the stable-door after the horse is stolen
- Man proposes but God disposes
- The end crowns the work
- It is good fishing in troubled waters
- Birds of a feather flock together
- Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
- The busiest man finds the most leisure
- To kill two birds with one stone
- One beats the bush, and another catches the bird
- A man can do no more than he can
- To strain at a gnat and swallow a camel
- Every man is the architect of his own fortunes