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Slip Proverbs
Marriage is not a tight knot, but a slip knot.
Madagascan Proverb
The body pays for a slip of the foot and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
Malawi Proverb
There's many a slip twixt cup and lip.
English Proverb
Be a horse ever so well shod, he may slip.
French Proverb
Better the foot slip than the tongue.
French Proverb
Even an elephant can slip.
Asian-indian Proverb
One word let slip and four horses would fail to catch it.
Japanese Proverb
The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.
Malay Proverb
What's all the fuss?" said the crane after the eel had slipped away. "I never liked fish anyway.
African Proverb
A single slip may cause lasting injury.
African Proverb
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African Proverb
There is many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip.
American Proverb
A slip of the foot and you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.
American Proverb
Rather a slip of the foot than a slip of the pen.
Arabic Proverb
A slip of the foot may soon be recovered; but that of the tongue perhaps never.
Danish Proverb
Between the hand and the lip the morsel may slip.
Portuguese Proverb
Better slip with the foot than with the tongue.
Italian Proverb
Nobody can slip out of his own skin.
Hungarian Proverb
Who seizes too much with his own hand, will have everything slip away and will hold nothing.
Sicilian Proverb
‘Twixt the spoon and the lip, the morsel may slip.
Dutch Proverb
Twixt the cup and the lip there's many a slip.
French Proverb
There is many a slip twixt cup and lip.
French Proverb
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