267 Proverbs about Children / Page 3
41. From children old people arise.
42. We have all been children.
43. Many children and little food make thin smoerbroeds.
44. One should go out of the way for little children and drunks.
45. Children's bread is hard to chew.
46. We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors, we have only borrowed it from our children.
47. Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children. We are more than the sum of our knowledge, we are the products of our imagination.
48. He that hath no children doth bring them up well.
49. Heaven protects children, sailors and drunken men.
50. Children are poor men's riches.
51. Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
52. Late children are early orphans.
53. Proverbs are the children of experience.
54. The Devil's children have the Devil's luck.
55. We are all Adam's children, but silk makes the difference.
56. Slop your hogs before you feed your children.
57. Fools and children tell the truth.
58. Children are certain cares, but uncertain comforts.
59. Children and fools must not play with edged tools.
60. A man among children will long be a child; a child among men will soon be a man.
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