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Only words that have been told can be understood.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian

A story is only half told if there is only one side presented.

Proverbs and old sayings Icelandic

Every truth is not good to be told.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about truth, good, good luck

Not every truth is good to be told.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about truth, good, good luck

Good riding at two anchors men have told, For it one break, the other yet may hold.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about man, good, good luck

Seeing is different from being told.

Proverbs and old sayings Kenyan about being

Home affairs cannot be told to the public.

Proverbs and old sayings about public, home

He who does not know, knows after being told.

Proverbs and old sayings about being

A dressed up lie is worth more than a badly told truth.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about lie, truth

She is as undecided as an orphan: if she does not wash her hands, she will be told that she is a dirty child; if she washes her hands she will be told that she is wasting water.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about children, water

The insane are told they're right.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about rightness

If a man told you that a dog had run off with your ear, would you go after the dog or search first for your ear?

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan about man

If you are not told about it, you go among people soiled.

Proverbs and old sayings about people

All truths are not to be told.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

A tale is soon told; a deed is not soon done.

Proverbs and old sayings Russian about fairy tales

He was scant of news, that told his father was hang'd.

Proverbs and old sayings

Better than gold is a tale rightly told.

Proverbs and old sayings about fairy tales

Every man's tale is good? til another's be told.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about fairy tales, good, good luck, man

All that's said in the kitchen should not be told in the hall.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish

Who approaches women penniless will be told: get lost.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian