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my son is my son till he has no wife but my daughter is my daughter till her whole life

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

You do not have it correctly phrased. It should read:

My son is my son till he has a wife, but my daughter is my daughter for her whole life.

Some variations:

My son's my son, till he hath got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all days of her life.
[1670 J. Ray English Proverbs 53]

‘Oh, mamma,’ said Julia warmly, ‘and do you think all the marriage in the world?can make me lukewarm to my?mother??It's a son who is a son only till he gets him a wife: but your daughter's your daughter, all-the-days-of her life.’
[1863 C. Reade Hard Cash I. v.]

She doesn't hear from him for months at a time now of course and then it's only a wire as often as not, but your son's your son till he gets him a wife, as the saying is.
[1943 A. Thirkell Growing Up iii.]

There's a very old-fashioned sort of saying we have in the North which goes, ‘My son is my son till he finds him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter the rest of her life.’
[1981 Listener 27 Aug. 206]

Mr Wordy · Answer

What is your question?

There are various slightly different wordings of this proverb. A typical one is:

"My son is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life."

In your version, "till he has no wife" and "till her whole life" are wrong. If you want to say something along these lines it would have to be "till he has a wife" and "for her whole life".

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