One father can support ten children; ten children cannot support one father. 
Proverbs on a similar topic
- Never too late to learn.
- Practice makes perfect.
- Experience is the best teacher.
- Spare the rod and spoil the child.
- Teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
- Better to ask the way than go astray.
- Many things are lost for want of asking.
- Mistakes are often the best teachers.
- Never offer to teach fish to swim.
- No man is born Wise or learned.
- They must hunger in frost that will not work in heat.
- What youth is used to, age remembers.
- The young pig grunts like the old sow.
- Children when they are little make parents fools, when they are great they make them mad.
- Better children weep than old men.
- The man who has not been flogged is not educated.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in another language
German
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Ein Vater kann eher zehn Kinder ernähren als zehn Kinder einen Vater.
One father can feed ten children rather than ten children can feed one father.
Czech
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Chudá matka spíše sedm dětí vychová, než sedmero dětí jednu matku vyživí.
A poor mother is more likely to raise seven children than seven children are likely to nourish one mother.
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Jedna matka uživí osm dětí, ale osm dětí neuživí jednu matku.
One mother can support eight children, but eight children cannot support one mother.