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To become a father is easy, but to be a father is difficult.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

A son as cunning as his father knows the arrows like father.

Proverbs and old sayings

When a father helps a son, both smile; but when a son must help his father, both cry.

Proverbs and old sayings Jewish about smile, help

A father never resembles his son, it's the son that resembles the father.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

If you have a poor father that is destiny; if you have a poor father-in-law, that is your mistake.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about destiny, mistake, law, contentment

It is easier for the son to ask from the father than for the father to ask from the son.

Proverbs and old sayings Bengali

One father can feed seven children, but seven children cannot feed one father.

Proverbs and old sayings Cameroonian about children

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

One father is better at caring for ten children than ten children are for one father.

Proverbs and old sayings about children

A father maintains ten children better than ten children one father.

Proverbs and old sayings German about children

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

Proverbs and old sayings

He does not sing his father's songs. [He does not imitate the good example of his father. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about example, good, good luck

You only appreciate your father the day you become a father yourself.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about day, contentment

One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about children

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian

The father gave his son a vineyard, the son didn't give the father even a grape.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

Like father, like son

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Proverbs and old sayings English

Protect your fatherland like the eagle protects its nest.

Proverbs and old sayings Albanian