'Tis a wise child that knows its own father.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about children
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An ennobled peasant does not know his own father.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about peasantry
From the father comes honour, from the mother comfort.
Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about honour, mother
When a son attends to his father, it is a twofold joy for both; when wise things are prescribed to him, the son is.
Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about joy, things
If a father does not cultivate, the son does not inherit land.
Proverbs and old sayings
The wish is father to the thought.
Proverbs and old sayings English about thinking, wish
Whatsoever was the father of the disease, an ill diet was the mother.
Proverbs and old sayings English about diets, mother
Who strikes his father or mother his hand will grow out of the grave.
Proverbs and old sayings Estonian about mother
Tell me who your father is, and I'll tell you who you are.
Proverbs and old sayings about contentment
Mean fathers, wasteful sons.
Proverbs and old sayings French about waste
A miserly father makes a prodigal man.
Proverbs and old sayings French about man
A merry life forgets father and mother.
Proverbs and old sayings French about mother, life
A father is a banker provided by nature.
Proverbs and old sayings French about bankers, nature
One cannot please everybody and one's father.
Proverbs and old sayings French
Some fathers love another man's daughter most.
Proverbs and old sayings French about love, man
Happy the child whose father goes to the devil.
Proverbs and old sayings French about happiness, children, devil
You cannot satisfy the whole world and your father.
Proverbs and old sayings French about world, contentment
Mention not a rope in the house of one whose father was hanged.
Proverbs and old sayings French about home, house
Boredom is the father of all sins.
Proverbs and old sayings German about boredom, sin
It is better the child should cry than the father.
Proverbs and old sayings German about children
