Son Proverbs - page 4

One's son is clever while the neighbor is suspicious. (Chinese Proverb)
Easier to rule a nation than a son. View proverb
Chinese Proverb
Runaway son, a shining jewel; runaway daughter, tarnished. View proverb
Chinese Proverb
The ungrateful son is a wart on his father's face; to leave it is a blemish, to cut it off is pain. View proverb
Afghan Proverb
The ungrateful son is like a wart on his father's face; to leave it there is unsightly, to cut it off is painful. View proverb
Afghan Proverb
A father never resembles his son, it's the son that resembles the father. View proverb
African Proverb
A father voodoos with his son and a mother voodoos with her daughter. View proverb
African Proverb
If you know his father and grandfather, don't worry about his son. View proverb
African Proverb
First a daughter, then a son, and the family's well begun. View proverb
American Proverb
Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair. View proverb
American Proverb
Lime and lime without manure makes the farmer rich and the son poor. (American Proverb)
My son's my son till he gets him a wife; my daughter's my daughter all of her life. View proverb
American Proverb
When a father praises his son, he flatters himself. View proverb
American Proverb
A son is a son 'till he gets him a wife; a daughter's a daughter all her life. View proverb
English Proverb
Marry your son when you will, your daughter when you can. View proverb
English Proverb
A son is a son till he gets him a wife, but a daughter's a daughter the rest of your life. View proverb
English Proverb
When your son grows up, become his brother. View proverb
Arabic Proverb
Every son of Adam keeps hoping until he is carried away to his grave. View proverb
Arabic Proverb
Only a mother can understand the suffering of a son. View proverb
Arabic Proverb
The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot. View proverb
Danish Proverb
Marry you son when you will, and your daughter when you can. (Danish Proverb)
Better a daughter that has been slept on than a son who has been hanged. View proverb
Danish Proverb
Who leaves a son isn't really dead. View proverb
Danish Proverb
A king's son is not nobler than his food. View proverb
Irish Proverb
May you have a bright future – as the chimney sweep said to his son. View proverb
Irish Proverb