Child Proverbs - page 2

Ticks, bedbugs and a crying child are unendurable. (Lebanese Proverb)
He who longs too much for a child will marry a pregnant woman. View proverb
Bambara Proverb
The child who loves freedom is the first victim of it. View proverb
Bambara Proverb
The motherless child will suckle the grandmother. View proverb
Bambara Proverb
The child who is given everything he asks for usually won't succeed in life. View proverb
Myanmar Proverb
A child without a mother is like a fish in shallow water. View proverb
Myanmar Proverb
A goose's child is a swimmer. View proverb
Egyptian Proverb
When my child and I have eaten -- then clear the table. View proverb
Moroccan Proverb
Don't give a child a name until after it is born. View proverb
Netherlands Antillean Proverb
The elephant's head is no load for a child. View proverb
Sierra Leonean Proverb
A child is a child of everyone. (Sudanese Proverb)
It is easier to beat two devils into a child, than one devil out. View proverb
Swiss Proverb
Better the child weeps than your wife. View proverb
Togolese Proverb
By crawling, a child learns to stand. View proverb
West African Proverb
The hand of the child cannot reach the shelf, nor the hand of the adult get through the neck of the gourd. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
When your neighbor's horse falls into a pit, you should not rejoice at it, for your own child may fall into it too. View proverb
Yoruba Proverb
When you show the moon to a child, it sees only your finger. View proverb
Zambian Proverb
You can not tell a hungry child that you gave him food yesterday. View proverb
Zimbabwe Proverb
Patience is the mother of a beautiful child. View proverb
Bantu Proverb
A child one does not instruct on return, one instructs him when going. View proverb
Bantu Proverb
There's only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it. (Lower Austria Proverb)
A por man with his child a rich man with his wealth. View proverb
Swahili Proverb
A single hand can not nurse a child. View proverb
Swahili Proverb
When a child cries for a razor give it him. View proverb
Swahili Proverb
To every child his own neck ornament. View proverb
Swahili Proverb