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Twenty years a child twenty years running wild twenty years a mature man-and after that, praying.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about children, man

The three most beautiful sights: a potato garden in bloom, a ship under sail, and a woman after the birth of a child.

Proverbs and old sayings Irish about garden, children, woman

Boil not the pap before the child is born.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about children

A crying child thrives.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about children

The more stupid the child the dearer it is.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about children

The child who died too soon was always beautiful and intelligent.

Proverbs and old sayings Japanese about children

A mother understands what a child does not say.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about children, mother

When you take a knife away from a child, give him a piece of wood instead.

Proverbs and old sayings Kenyan about children

The woman who gives birth to a child is like the banana tree that breaks under the weight of its fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, woman

If you don't use the painstik, the child will never celebrate his Age of Ascension.

Proverbs and old sayings about age, olderness, use, children

One beats one's breast who does not beat one's child.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

Never give a child a sword.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about children

Even a child may beat a man that's bound.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about children, man

Ticks, bedbugs and a crying child are unendurable.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about children

A child's lie is like a dead fish in a pond that in the end, always comes to the surface, explains his mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, children, mother, end

The child of a rat is a rat.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about children

One can't give a grasshopper to a child if one has not caught it yet.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about children

She is as undecided as an orphan: if she does not wash her hands, she will be told that she is a dirty child; if she washes her hands she will be told that she is wasting water.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about children, water

As a child, is a man wrapped in his mother's womb; as an adult, in tradition; comes death, and he is wrapped in earth.

Proverbs and old sayings Guatemalan about tradition, earth, children, death, mother, man

Child's pig, father's pork.

Proverbs and old sayings about children