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Words are like spears: once they leave your lips they can never come back.
Benin Proverb
A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.
Jewish Proverb
Before you let your voice be heard, first lick your lips.
Indonesian Proverb
Only men with thick lips should smoke a cigar.
Mexican Proverb
A fool's lips bring him strife and invite a beating.
Moroccan Proverb
An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
Moroccan Proverb
If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.
Namibian Proverb
If your mouth were a knife, it would cut off your lips.
Zimbabwe Proverb
What comes from the lips reaches the ears, what comes from the heart reaches the heart.
African Proverb
What the sober man has in his heart, the drunkard has on his lips.
Danish Proverb
Who lends his lips to nought but blame, has in his heart no love of fame.
German Proverb
Like lips, like lettuce.
Italian Proverb
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Italian Proverb
He has the Bible on his lips, but not in his heart.
Dutch Proverb
The strength of the elderly is in the ears and on the lips.
Mossi Proverb
Of runes they spoke, and the reading of runes was little withheld from their lips.
Norse Proverb
Fear a silent man. He has lips like a drum.
Yoruba Proverb
Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.
Yoruba Proverb
If the lips are gone, the teeth will grow cold.
Chinese Proverb
He who guards his lips, guards his life.
African Proverb
Sometimes the face can tell what the lips can't say.
African Proverb
If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off your lips.
African Proverb
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