Better to slip with the foot than with the tongue.
More Traditional Proverbs:
He's pushing up the daisies.Traditional
It beats picking cotton.
Traditional
The first wife is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy.
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A friend in court is better than a penny in purse.
Traditional
Zen is like looking for the spectacles that are sitting on your nose.
Traditional
Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.
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