The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Part 53

48. Old head and young hand.

49. Old heads will not suit young shoulders.

50. Old men are twice children.--_Greek_.

51. Once a man and twice a child.

52. Se il giovane sapesse, se il vecchio potesse, c' non c' e cosa che non si facesse. [If the youth but knew, if the old man but could, there is nothing which would not be done.]--_Italian_.

53. Study is the bane of boyhood, the element of youth, the indulgence of manhood, and the restorative of age.--_Landor_.

54. The household is the home of the man as well as of the child.--_Emerson_.

55. The man whom grown-up people love, children love still more.--_Jean Paul_.

56. There are in man, in the beginning, and at the end, two blank book-binder's leaves,--childhood and age.--_Jean Paul_.

57. We are children for the second time at twenty-one, and again when we are gray and put all our burden on the Lord.--_Barrie_.

58. We bend the tree when it is young.--_Bulgarian_.

59. When bairns are young they gar their parents' heads ache; when they are auld they make their hearts break.--_Scotch_.

60. When children, we are sensualists, when in love, idealists.

--_Goethe_.

61. Wie die Alten sungen, so zwitschern auch die Jungen. [As the old birds sing, the young ones twitter.]--_German_.

62. Wir sind auch Kinder gewesen. [We too were once children.]

--_German_.

63. Young men think that old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.--_Chapman_.

64. Youth is a blunder; manhood, a struggle; old age, a regret.

--_Disraeli_.

65.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.--_Shakespeare_.

CHAPTER x.x.xII.

PBOVEKBS, SAYINGS, ETC., ABOUT THE CHILD AND CHILDHOOD.

1. A beltless bairn cannot lie.--_Scotch._

2. A burnt child dreads the fire.

3. A child is a Cupid become visible.--_Novalis._

4. A daft nurse makes a wise wean.--_Scotch._

5. A growing youth has a wolf in his belly.

6. A hungry belly has no ears.

7. A lisping la.s.s is good to kiss.

8. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

9 An infant crying in the night, An infant crying for the light; And with no language but a cry.--_Tennyson._

10. A pet lamb makes a cross ram.

11. A reasonable word should be received even from a child or a parrot.--_Sanskrit._

12. A simple child That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death?--_Wordsworth._

13. As sair greets [as much weeps] the bairn that's paid at e'en as he that gets his whawks in the morning.--_Scotch._

14. A tarrowing bairn was never fat.--_Scotch._

15. Auld men are twice bairns.--_Scotch._

16. Auld wives and bairns make fools of physicians.--_Scotch._

17. Bairns are certain care, but nae sure joy.--_Scotch._

18. Be born neither wise nor fair, but lucky.--_Russian._

19. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.--_Pope._

20. Better be unborn than untaught.--_Gaelic_.

21. Birth's good, but breeding's better.--_Scotch_.

22. Bon sang ne peut mentir. Qui naquit chat court apres les souris.

[Good blood cannot lie. The kitten will chase the mouse.]--_French_.

23. Broken bread makes hale bairns.--_Scotch_.

24. By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd, The sports of children satisfy the child.--_Goldsmith_.

25. ce que l'enfant entend au foyer, est bientot connu jusqu'au Moistre.

[What children hear at the fireside is soon known as far as Moistre (a town in Savoy).]--_French_.