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Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards.

Proverbs and old sayings British about marriage, eyes

Believe only half of what you see and nothing of what you hear.

Proverbs and old sayings Cuban about nothing

Acknowledgement is half of correction.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian

In America half an hour is forty minutes.

Proverbs and old sayings German

Good start is half of the work.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian about work, good, good luck

Do not meet troubles half-way

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

Well begun is half done

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about old, olderness

Being clean is the half of faith.

Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about faith, being

A good beginning is a halfway a battle won.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about beginning, good, good luck

You can beat a fool half to death but you can't beat the foolishness out of him.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about death

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about lie, truth, world

A danger foreseen is half-avoided.

Proverbs and old sayings German about danger, americans

A disease known is half cured.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

She who is a beauty is half married.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about beauty, americans

A fault confessed is half-redressed.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Who never doubted never half believed.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

The king's cheese goes half away in parings.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

It is better to know nothing than to half-know many things.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about things, nothing, americans

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about marriage, eyes, americans

One half the troubles in this world can be traced to saying 'yes' too quick or saying 'no' not soon enough.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about world, americans