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The Mother of God appears to fools.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about mother, god

Prosperity forgets father and mother.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about prosperity, mother

A bad mother wishes for good children.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children, mother, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

The cask full, the mother-in-law drunk.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law, mother

Even a sugar mother-in-law tastes bitter.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about bitter, law, mother

The mother who spoils her child, fattens a serpent.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children, mother

The mother reckons well, but the child reckons better.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children, mother

The mother of mischief is no bigger than a midge's wing.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about mother

Three daughters and their mother, four devils for the father.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about devil, mother

The mother-in-law must be entreated, and the pot must be let stand.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law, mother

Well-married is when you have no mother-in-law and no sister-in-law.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law, mother, contentment

The servant wench that has a mother in town swoons seven times a day.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about city, mother, day

Were you at the wedding, Molly? No, mother, but the bride was very fine.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about marriage, mother, contentment

If the child cries let the mother hush it, and if it will not be hushed let it cry.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about children, mother

The gentle lamb sucks any ewe as well as its mother; the surly lamb sucks neither its own nor another.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about mother

As long as I was a daughter-in-law I never had a good mother-in-law, and as long as I was a mother-in-law I never had a good daughter-in-law.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about law, mother, good, good luck

A husband of a mother is a father.

Proverbs and old sayings about husband, mother

The Iabour of childbirth is known to the mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother

The miser is his own mother-in-law.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish about law, mother

Writing is the mother of eloquence and the father of artists.

Proverbs and old sayings Syrian about artists, writing, mother