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Child Proverbs - page 11
The baker's child goes hungry.
Turkish Proverb
The shoemaker's child goes barefoot.
Turkish Proverb
The mother reckons well, but the child reckons better.
Spanish Proverb
The dearest child of all is the dead one.
Spanish Proverb
He who does not whip the child does not mend the youth.
Spanish Proverb
Nurse, you are mistress whilst the child sucks, and after that nothing.
Spanish Proverb
If the child cries let the mother hush it, and if it will not be hushed let it cry.
Spanish Proverb
When the child cuts its teeth, death is on the watch.
Spanish Proverb
A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
Latin Proverb
Even a child may beat a man that's bound.
Latin Proverb
A cow gave birth to a fire; she wanted to lick it, but it burned; she wanted to leave it, but she could not because it was her own child.
Ethiopian Proverb
One should punish a child the first time he comes home with a stolen egg. Otherwise, the day he returns home with a stolen ox, it will be too late.
Ethiopian Proverb
One who tries to hide with a dog, a child, a goat, or a person with a cold, will not remain hidden.
Ethiopian Proverb
The child is father to the man.
English Proverb
Good is the child who dances well, even better who's at a standstill.
Estonian Proverb
The child went with washing water.
Finnish Proverb
What's such child who doesn't do damage worth five marks a day - a boy may do worth one hundred.
Finnish Proverb
An adult squatting sees farther than a child on top of tree.
Pigmei Proverb
The child looks everywhere and often sees nought, the old man, sitting on the ground, sees everything.
Wolof Proverb
The child looks everywhere and often sees nought, the old man.
Wolof Proverb
There is no name which cannot distinguish a child.
Bajan Proverb
A child, who loves culture and breeding, is a perfect child.
Burkina Faso Proverb
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