Proverbs:

A child of a year old sucks milk from the heel.
Spanish
A child’s back must be bent early.
Danish
A child’s sorrow is short lived.
Danish
A child may have too much of his mother’s blessing.
*
A child that can walk is a Jama (god) to the child in the cradle.
Tamil
A chip of the old block.
*
A naughty child must be roughly rocked.
*
A pet child has many names.
Danish
A Sunday’s child never dies of the plague.
French
A suspicious parent makes an artful child.
Haliburton
As each one wishes his children to be, so they are.
Terence
Better the child cry than the old man.
Danish
Children and chicken must ever be picking.
*
Children and drunken men speak the truth.
Danish
Children and fools are prophets.
French
Children and fools have merry lives.
*
Children and fools tell truth.
*
Children are certain cares but uncertain comforts.
*
Children are poor men’s riches.
*
Children are to be cheated with cockles and men with oaths.
Lysander
Children are what the mothers are.
Landor
Children are what they are made.
French
Children cry for nuts and apples, and old men for silver and gold.
*
Children, fools, and drunkards tell the truth.
German
Children have wide ears and long tongues.
*
Children increase the cares of life but mitigate the remembrance of death.
*
Children like tender osiers take the bow, and as they first are fashioned always grow.
Juvenal
Children married, cares increase.
Spanish
Children must be circumvented with words, men with oaths.
Lysander
Children pick up words as pigeons pease, and utter them again as God shall please.
*
Children should be seen, not heard.
*
Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when they grow up.
*
Children tell in the highway what they hear by the fireside.
Portuguese
Children when little make parents fools, when great, mad.
*
Child’s pig, father’s hog.
*
Every man is to be envied who is fortunate with his children.
Euripides
From children expect childish acts.
Danish
From many children and little bread good Lord deliver us.
*
Give a child till he craves and a dog while his tail doth wag and you’ll have a fair dog but foul knave.
*
Give a child his will and a whelp his fill and neither will thrive.
*
Give to a pig when it grunts and to a child when it cries, and you’ll have a fine pig and a bad child.
Danish
Gold must be beaten and a child scourged.
*
Gude bairns get broken brows.
*
He knows not what love is that has not children.
Italian
He remembers his ancestors but forgets to feed his children.
*
He that does not beat his child will afterwards beat his own breasts.
Turkish
He that loves his child chastises him.
Dutch
He who hath children hath neither kindred nor friends.
*
How did you rear so many children? By being fondest of the little ones.
Portuguese
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child.
Shakespeare
I hate all children of precocious talent.
Cicero
If the child cries let the mother hush it, if it will not be hushed, let it cry.
Spanish
If the child does not cry, the mother does not understand it.
Russian
If the child does not cry they give him not suck.
Modern Greek
If you have wicked children of what use is money, and if good, again what use is it.
Turkish
Ill bairns are ay best heard at hame.
*
It is a wise child that knows its own father.
German
Let a child have its will and it will not cry.
Danish
Little children and headaches, great children and heartaches.
Italian
Male children are the pillars of a house.
Greek
Many children and little bread is a painful pleasure.
Spanish
Married life without children is as the earth deprived of the sun’s rays.
Latin
No ape but swears he has the handsomest children.
*
Of glasses and children one never has too many.
*
One is always somebody’s child, that is a comfort.
*
Our neighbor’s children are always the worst.
German
Pretty children sing pretty songs.
Danish
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
*
The best horse needs breaking and the aptest child needs teaching.
*
The burnt child dreads the fire.
*
The child names the father, the mother knows him.
Livonian
The child saith nothing but what he heard at the fireside.
*
The child should be instructed in the arts that will be useful to the man.
Spartan King
The child that trembles at a rod will never dare to look upon a sword.
Theoderic
The child who gets a step-mother also gets a step-father.
Greek
The dearer the child, the sharper must be the rod.
Danish
The eternal child dwells in fine natures.
De Quincey
The two best books to a child are a good mother’s face and life.
*
There are no children now-a-days.
French
There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.
*
Thy child that is no child leave upon the water and let him swim.
*
To save a father is a child’s chief honor.
Byron
Train up a child in the way he should go.
*
What the parents spin the children must reel.
German
When the child cuts its teeth death is on the watch.
Spanish
When the child is christened come god fathers enough.
French
Proverbs theme "Child" in English
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