Proverbs and old sayings about Children, page 28

548 proverbs and old sayings about children

When a mother calls her child bastard, you can take her word for it.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about children

Small children won't let you sleep, bigger children won't let you live.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about children

Once it was the parents who taught their children to talk; now the children teach their parents to keep quiet.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about children

The hand of the child cannot reach the shelf, nor the hand of the adult get through the neck of the gourd.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about children

Rather than an abatement of her viciousness, a witch gives birth to only female children and witchcraft multiplies.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about children

When your neighbor's horse falls into a pit, you should not rejoice at it, for your own child may fall into it too.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about children

When you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

You can not tell a hungry child that you gave him food yesterday.

Proverbs and old sayings about children