PROVERBS ON FAMILY

A family is like a thick forest, often from outside its dense, when you are inside each tree has its own position and space.

You can eat and drink with your family but not count and measure.

If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily.

Duty knows no family.

Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

Govern a family as you would cook a small fish -- very gently.

It is easy to govern a kingdom but difficult to rule one's family.

Man is the head of the family, his wife the neck that turns the head.

You can't be the head of a family unless you show yourself both stupid and deaf.

Nobody's family can hang out the sign, "Nothing the matter here.

A real family eats the same cornmeal.

The family that prays together stays together.

A family tie is like a tree, it can bend but it cannot break.

In a family if you have somebody who is troublesome it's the family members who are worried than the troublesome member.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

In a good family the husband is deaf and the wife blind.

Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.

If the family is together, the soul is in the right place.

He who earns calamity, eats it with his family.

If you act as good as you look, you'll never shame your family.

Every family has at least one black sheep.

In a united family, happiness springs up of itself.

Every family has a goodness of mercy.

Can't have a family fuss without the whole town knowing about it.

First a daughter, then a son, and the family's well begun.

The one who first shuts up in an argument is from a good family.

A deer is an elder to its family.

Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity.

Even the maid has a family.

Friends and family are worth more than money.

Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.

There are misfortunes in almost every family.

Marry the girl of a good family though she is seated on a mat, very poor.

If I am in harmony with my family, that's success.

Relations last longer when the family is in distress.