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Good fathers make good sons.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about good, good luck, americans

The wish is the father of the deed.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about wish, americans

Honour your father and your mother.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about honour, mother, americans

Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about failure, success, americans

When a father praises his son, he flatters himself.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

As the baker, so the buns; as the father, so the sons.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about despair, americans

Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about memory, experience, wisdom, mother, americans

There's no advice like father's -- even if you don't take it.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about advice, americans, contentment

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

Proverbs and old sayings South American about paradise, children, home, world, mother, americans

The Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of America and fell on their knees; then they fell upon the aborigines.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

The mule was asked: Who is your father? It responded with: The horse is my uncle.

Proverbs and old sayings

Three daughters and a mother are four devils for a father.

Proverbs and old sayings Argentinian about devil, mother

When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

When the mother dies the father becomes an uncle.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother

You can buy everything, except a father and a mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about commerce, mother, contentment

Sorrow for the death of a father lasts six months; sorrow for a mother, a year; sorrow for a wife, until another wife; sorrow for a son, forever.

Proverbs and old sayings about sadness, wife, death, mother

Success has more than one father.

Proverbs and old sayings Australian about success

Nobody calls another's father 'dad'.

Proverbs and old sayings

A fair daughter's father has no ears.

Proverbs and old sayings