Famous Proverbs
458 Proverbs about Moth / Page 5
41. A bustling mother makes a slothful daughter.
42. Marry me forthwith, mother, for my face is growing wrinkled.
43. What is marriage, mother? Daughter, it is spinning, bearing children, and weeping.
44. A bad mother wishes for good children.
45. A handful of motherwit is worth a bushel of learning.
46. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of priests.
47. As long as I was a daughter-in-law I never had a good mother-in-law, and as long as I was a mother-in-law I never had a good daughter-in-law.
48. If the child cries let the mother hush it, and if it will not be hushed let it cry.
49. It's enough to make a parson swear, or a quaker kick his mother.
50. Mother, marry me, marry me, or the gull will fly away with me.