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Children are what they are made. — French
Children bring good fortune, children bring misfortune. — Yiddish
Children are certain cares, uncertain comforts. — English
Children and money make a nice world. — Yiddish
Children should be seen and not heard. — English
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Children have a hair of their father. — Flemish
Children will be children. — American
Children who do their duty unprompted are as a life-preserving remedy. — Indian (Tamil)
Children when they are little make parents fools, when great, mad. — English
Children and chicken must be always picking. — English
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Children take after their parents. — Maltese
Children and drunken men speak the truth. — Danish
Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when they are old. — English
Children and fools are prophets. — French
Children are poor men's riches. — English
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Children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter them again as God shall please. — English
Children learn from their parents. — Japanese
Children have wide ears and long tongues. — English
Children and fools have merry lives. — English
Children do not understand the hearts of parents. — Japanese
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Children do not have as much affection for parents as parents have for them. — Japanese
Small children give you headache; big children, heartache. — Russian
Small children eat porridge, big ones eat their parents' hearts. — Czech
Small children, small worries; older children, greater worries. — Greek
Small children don't let you sleep; big children don't let you rest. — Yiddish
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