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Better slip with the foot than with the tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Where there is least heart there is most tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heart

Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about advice, good, good luck

One pair of ears would exhaust a hundred tongues.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

Let not your tongue say what your head may pay for.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about heads

Teeth placed in front of the tongue give good advice.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about advice, good, good luck

Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about world, heads

He is not an honest man who has burned his tongue and does not tell the company that the soup is hot.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about companies, man

Teeth will never quarrel with the tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings

The tongue of woman is her sword, which never rusts.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about woman

A three inch tongue -- the iron bulwark of politics.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about politics

Forgetting your native tongue means forgetting your native country.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about forgetness, country

The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about man

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish

Teach your tongue to say I don't know instead of to make up something.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish

To keep one's tongue is worthy of praise.

Proverbs and old sayings about praise

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

Proverbs and old sayings

You cannot loosen a man's tongue with root beer.

Proverbs and old sayings about man

A knife-wound heals, but a tongue-wound festers.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

At table keep short hand; in company keep a short tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings about companies