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I gave so much advice that hair grew on my tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about advice

Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about heart

With a sweet tongue of kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

With a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Every kind of animal can be tamed, but not the tongue of man.

Proverbs and old sayings Philippine about man

The cat bit your tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

For a bad tongue scissors.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about bad luck, bad

A long tongue betokens a short hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

The tongue goes to the aching tooth.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Let not the tongue utter what the head must pay for.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about heads

The lame tongue gets nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about nothing

Foolish tongues talk by the dozen.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

The tongue talks at the head's cost.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about heads

The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

Believe no tales from an enemy's tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about fairy tales, enemies

A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

A woman's tongue is a double edged knife.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about woman

What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about heart

An ox is taken by the horns, and a man by the tongue.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about man