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A fool's speech is a bubble of air.

Proverbs and old sayings French about air

We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.

Proverbs and old sayings French about silence, need

Not speech, but facts, convince.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek

In the young, silence is better than speech.

Proverbs and old sayings Greek about silence

The worst kind of person is one whose power of speech is greater than his power of thought.

Proverbs and old sayings about power, thinking, people

The speech, actions, manner of movement, and turban of each man differs from all others.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

Silence surpasses speech.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about silence

An unguarded speech reveals the truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about truth

Many an injury comes from a fool's speech.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Soft speeches injure not the mouth of the speaker.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Speaking, though speechless, it exercises dominion over the mind.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about mind

Never in speech with a foolish knave shouldst thou waste a single word.

Proverbs and old sayings about word

The speech of a maiden should no man trust nor the words which a woman says; for their hearts were shaped on a whirling wheel and falsehood fixed in their breasts.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, woman, man

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food.

Proverbs and old sayings about food

The public improves the speaker's speech.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about public

More have repented speech than silence.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about silence

The sober man's secret is the drunkard's speech.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about secret, man

The good speech of an ass is better than the bad word of a prophet.

Proverbs and old sayings about word, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

Silence is also speech.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about silence

If speech is of silver, silence is golden.

Proverbs and old sayings Yemenite about silence