Tongue Proverbs - page 8

Cutting by the tongue is different from cutting by the knife. (Kikuyu Proverb)
To keep one's tongue is worthy of praise. View proverb
Kikuyu Proverb
The entire world rests on the tip of the tongue. View proverb
Yiddish Proverb
The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks. View proverb
Yiddish Proverb
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your tongue. View proverb
Yiddish Proverb
What the sober man keeps in his heart, is on the tongue of the drunkard. View proverb
French Proverb
The tongue wounds more than a lance. View proverb
French Proverb
A brain is worth little without a tongue. View proverb
French Proverb
A woman's tongue is her sword, and she does not let it rust. View proverb
French Proverb
Better to stumble than make a slip of the tongue. View proverb
Russian Proverb
A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. (Turkish Proverb)
A tongue has no bones but it can break. View proverb
Turkish Proverb
Wounds from the knife are healed, but not those from the tongue. View proverb
Spanish Proverb
The tongue goes to where the tooth aches. View proverb
Spanish Proverb
The wise hand does not all that the tongue says. View proverb
Spanish Proverb
Let not the tongue utter what the head must pay for. View proverb
Spanish Proverb
See, hear, and hold your tongue. View proverb
Spanish Proverb
You are not being honest if you burn your tongue and don't tell everyone else that the soup is hot. View proverb
Serbian Proverb
Wider ears and a short tongue. View proverb
Latin Proverb
Let a fool hold his tongue, and he will pass for a sage. View proverb
Latin Proverb
One man uses his tongue, another his teeth. (Latin Proverb)
Who has honey on his tongue has poison in his mind. View proverb
Finnish Proverb
Tongue has two locks, lips and teeth. View proverb
Finnish Proverb
Butter on the tongue, poison in the heart. View proverb
Finnish Proverb
On the tongue [there's] honey, and on the heart [there's] ice. View proverb
Russian Proverb