A rich child often sits in a poor mother's lap.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, wealth, mother
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Let a child have its will, and it will not cry.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children
The dearer the child, the sharper must be the rod.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children
Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about praise, children, mother, love, contentment
The child who gets a stepmother also gets a stepfather.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children
It is too late to cover the well when the child is drowned.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children
He who takes a child by the hand takes a mother by the heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, mother, heart
A burnt child fears the fire, and a bitten child fears a dog.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, fire, fire brigade
He who takes the child by the hand, takes the mother by the heart.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about children, mother, heart
Chastise a good child, that it may not grow bad, and a bad one, that it may not grow worse.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about bad luck, bad, children, good, good luck
It is good to be priest at Easter, child in Lent, peasant at Christmas, and foal in harvest-time.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about peasantry, christmas, children, time, good, good luck
Give 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
Spare the rod, spoil the child.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about children
He that loves his child chastises him.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about children
'Tis a wise child that knows its own father.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about children
Who chastises his child will be honoured by him, who chastises him not will be shamed.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about children
No matter if the child's born with a flat nose, as long as it breathes.
Proverbs and old sayings Ecuadorian about children
A goose's child is a swimmer.
Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about children
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverbs and old sayings English about experience, children
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.
Proverbs and old sayings English about children
