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A knife wound heals; a wound caused by words does not.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

No matter how sharp it is, a knife will never cut it's own handle.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese

If your mouth were a knife, it would cut off your lips.

Proverbs and old sayings

Occasionally a man with a right smart education can't find his knife when it gets in the wrong pocket.

Proverbs and old sayings about education, intelligence, bad, rightness, americans, man

It is a surprise that the cock should hold a grudge against the pot, instead of the knife that killed it.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

The tongue that belongs to a fake friend is sharper than a knife.

Proverbs and old sayings Argentinian

The village, which has got a whetstone, does not blunt the knife.

Proverbs and old sayings

When you are pepper, I am mustard; when thou art a needle, I am a knife.

Proverbs and old sayings Ethiopian about art, magic

Cutting by the tongue is different from cutting by the knife.

Proverbs and old sayings

The calf isn't even born yet and there he is sharpening his carving knife.

Proverbs and old sayings Lithuanian

A child who fears beating, would never admit that he played with a missing knife.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about children