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In Polizzi you'll find water, fog, kites, priests with children, commissions and delegates.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about children, water, contentment

Before you choose a counselor, watch him with his neighbor's children.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, contentment

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about present, war, advice, children, contentment

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

A mother was asked:
"Which of your children do you love the most?"
She replied:
"The sick one until they are well, the absent one until they return, the small one until they grow up, and all of them until I die."

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about love

Give to a pig when it grunts and a child when it cries, and you will have a fine pig and a bad child.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, bad luck, bad, contentment

Don't give a child a name until after it is born.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about name, children

Do not make the dress before the child is born.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

Spare the rod and spoil the child

Proverbs and old sayings British about children, old, olderness

The burnt child dreads the fire.

Proverbs and old sayings British about children, fire, fire brigade

The child tells what goes on in the house.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian about children, home, house

The child that will not allow his parents to sleep through the night must be prepared to stay awake himself.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about parents, sleep, night, children