4. Chi non ha figluoli non sa qualche cosa sia amore. [Who has not children knows not what love is.]—Italian.
5. Child's pig, but father's bacon.
6. Ein Vater ernahrt ehei zehn Kinder, denn zehn Kinder einen Vater. [One father can better nourish ten children, than ten children one father.]—German.
7. Fathers alone a father's heart can know.—Young.
8.Fathers first enter bonds to Nature's ends, And are her sureties ere they are a friend's. —George Herbert.
9.Fathers that wear rags Do make their children blind; But fathers that wear bags Do make their children kind. —Shakespeare (King Lear, ii. 4).
10.Fathers their children and themselves abuse, That wealth a husband for their daughters choose. —Shirley.
11. Happy is he that is happy in his children.
12. Happy is the child whose father went to the devil.
13. Haur nizar-galeac aitari bizzarra thira. [The child that will cry, pulls at its father's beard.]—Basque.