Proverbs and old sayings about Children, page 4

548 proverbs and old sayings about children

A child who protested when being stripped on the back by its mother, it's humbled by the scorching sun when left to walk.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

As long as a cock lives, it is said to have belonged to the child of the house; but when it is slaughtered for super, it is then that the real owner emerges.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

If you knock your head against a wall, then a coconut tree and pillar and your head still remains undamaged my child, go and hide that head of yours; it is a good head.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

The good mother knows what her children will eat.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

The child is capable of splitting open the snail, not the tortoise.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

A child who is to be successful is not to be reared exclusively on a bed of down.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

We do not inherit the land, we borrow it from our children.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

A burnt child dreads the fire.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children

To spoil a child is to maim it a bit.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children

A mother's heart is a child's schoolroom.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children

Even a child makes himself known by his doings.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children

Men fear death as children do going in the dark.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children

Fools and children should never look at unfinished work.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children

It's dog's delight to bark and bite, but little children never.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children

No matter how bad a child is, he is still good for a tax deduction.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children

Home is the father's kingdom, the children's paradise, the mother's world.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children

The difference between adults and children is that adults don't ask questions.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children

A child and a fool imagine twenty shillings and twenty years can never be spent.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about children