One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Proverbs and old sayings English
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Protect your fatherland like the eagle protects its nest.
Proverbs and old sayings Albanian
Success has many fathers, while failure is an orphan
Proverbs and old sayings German about failure, success
The boy is father to the man
Proverbs and old sayings British about man, old, olderness
The child is the father of the man
Proverbs and old sayings about children, man, old, olderness
The ungrateful son is a wart on his father's face; to leave it is a blemish, to cut it off is pain.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about pain, face
The ungrateful son is like a wart on his father's face; to leave it there is unsightly, to cut it off is painful.
Proverbs and old sayings Afghan about face
The wise man is father of the fool.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about man
A man never grows up until his father dies.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about man
Your mother is the bodyguard of your father.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother
The son shoots a leopard; the father is proud.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about proudness
A fatherless boy is no better than unburied seed.
Proverbs and old sayings West African
If she can't dig or cook send her back to her father.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about kitchen
Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about defeat, victory
An immoral father-in-law cannot advise his children well.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about law, children
If you know his father and grandfather, don't worry about his son.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about worry, contentment
A father voodoos with his son and a mother voodoos with her daughter.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about mother
A child doesn't belong to the father or mother; a child belongs to the ancestors.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about children, ancestors, mother
You could destroy everything I have believed in and your father before you and his father before you.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about destruction, contentment
If two brothers fight over their father's land, it is a stranger who will enjoy there sweat and labour.
Proverbs and old sayings West African about fight
