Proverbs with Keyword: "MOTHER"
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- M1193 Ask the MOTHER if the child be like his father
- M1194 Better a thigging¹ MOTHER than a riding father
- M1195 The good MOTHER says not, Will you? but gives
- M1196 If your MOTHER had not lost her virginity you would not have been born
- M1197 It is not as thy MOTHER says but as thy neighbors say
- M1198 A light-heeled MOTHER makes a heavy-heeled daughter
- M1199 Like MOTHER like daughter
- M1200 The MOTHER of mischief is no more¹ than a midge wing
- M1201 A pitiful MOTHER makes a scabby daughter (a scald¹ head)
- M1202 Every MOTHER's son (child)
- M1203 He was lapped (wrapped) in his MOTHER's smock
- M1204 His MOTHER's milk is not out of his nose
- M1205 The MOTHER's side is the surer side
- M1206 Four good MOTHERS beget four bad daughters: great familiarity, contempt; truth, hatred; virtue, envy; riches, ignorance
- M1207 He that will not hear MOTHERHOOD shall hear stepmotherhood