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Spoken words cannot be taken back.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

Speak when you are spoken to.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Many a true word is spoken in jest

Proverbs and old sayings about word, old, olderness

Quarrels end, but words once spoken never die.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about end

A word written stays forever than hundred spoken work.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about word, work

Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Proverbs and old sayings Arab about chance, past, word, life, things

A good deed dies when it is spoken about.

Proverbs and old sayings about good, good luck

When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken you reign over it.

Proverbs and old sayings about word

A word about to be spoken is like a stone that is ready to be thrown.

Proverbs and old sayings Bulgarian about word

Swiftest horse cannot overtake the word once spoken.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about word

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about anger, word

A word once spoken, an army of chariots cannot overtake it.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about word

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about chance, past, word, life, things

A man who is not spoken of is not abused.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about man

Words once spoken cannot be wiped out with a sponge.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

That which is unsaid, may be spoken; that which is said, cannot be unsaid.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

What is long spoken of happens at last.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

May no lies be spoken against me in the presence of God.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about god

A word spoken is past recalling.

Proverbs and old sayings English about past, word