It takes a breast for a child to know it's mother and it takes a mother for a child to know its father.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, mother
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A leopard is such an elusive animal that it can only be caught by the combined force of a man and his father-in-law.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about force, police, law, man
A girl with a golden cradle doesn't remain long in her father's house.
Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about home, house
The son does not cut his finger in cutting meat for his father.
Proverbs and old sayings
Falsehood is the Devil's daughter, and speaks her father's tongue.
Proverbs and old sayings Danish about lie, devil
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
Proverbs and old sayings English about children, mother, old, olderness
When the brothers fight to the death, a stranger inherits their father's estate.
Proverbs and old sayings about real estate, fight, death
Don't talk about a rope in the house of someone whose father was hung.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about home, house
It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged.
Proverbs and old sayings Irish about home, house, bad luck, bad, man
One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.
Proverbs and old sayings about world, life, good, good luck
A girl without a mother is like a mountain with no paths; a girl without a father is like a mountain with no streams.
Proverbs and old sayings about mother
He is a fool who spares the children after having killed the father.
Proverbs and old sayings Latin about children
The strictness of the teacher is better to bear than the prejudice of the father.
Proverbs and old sayings Persian about prejudice, teachers
What reaches the mother's heart will only reach the father's knees.
Proverbs and old sayings Polish about mother, heart
Marry a child of the devil and you're going to have problems with your father-in-law.
Proverbs and old sayings about problems, law, children, devil, contentment
A Presbyterian minister had a son who was made Archdeacon of Ossery; when this was told to his father, he said, 'If my son will be a knave, I am glad that he will be an archknave. '
Proverbs and old sayings Scottish
If you want to be loved by all, first love God, then your mother and father.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about mother, love, god, contentment
The olive grove of your grandfather, the cherry trees of your father, and your grape vines.
Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian
Three daughters and their mother, four devils for the father.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about devil, mother
When a good offer comes for your daughter, don't wait till her father returns from market.
Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about stores, good, good luck
