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Raise no more devils than you can lay.

Proverbs and old sayings British about devil, contentment

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about contentment

Raise what you've given birth to.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about contentment

Raised children, doubled work.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese about children, work

Raise no more spirits than you can conjure down.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about contentment

Raise ravens and they will peck our your eye.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

It takes a whole village to raise a child

Proverbs and old sayings about children, old, olderness

Mothers raise their daughters and let their sons grow up.

Proverbs and old sayings about americans

It takes a village to raise a child.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about children

When a man raises his voice at home, know that he started lowering if elsewhere.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about voice, home, man

The raised hand cares not for its own recognition, but for that of the body below.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about body

O! my sister Your son is like how you raised him. And your husband is like how you trained him.

Proverbs and old sayings about husband, contentment

To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about parents, children, love, contentment

A father and mother can raise ten children. But ten children aren't enough to keep a father and a mother.

Proverbs and old sayings about children, mother

It is the raised stick that makes the dog obey.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish

The price of a laugh is too high, if it is raised at the expense of another.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Don't raise your club so high; it will only fall on your head.

Proverbs and old sayings Finnish about fall, heads

A spark may raise An awful blaze.

Proverbs and old sayings French