The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Part 54

26. Che nasce bella nasce maritata. [A beautiful girl is born married.]--_Italian_.

27. Childhood and youth see the world in persons.--_Emerson_.

28. Childhood is the sleep of Reason.--_Rousseau_.

29. Children and chickens are always a-picking.

30. Children and drunken people tell the truth.

31. Children and fools speak the truth.--_Greek_.

32. Children and fools have many lives.

33. Children are certain sorrows, but uncertain joys.--_Danish_.

34. Children are the poor man's wealth.--_Danish_.

35. Children are very nice observers, and they will often perceive your slightest defects.--_Fenelon_.

36. Children cry for nuts and apples, and old men for gold and silver.

37. Children have more need of models than of critics.--_Jouberi_.

38. Children have wide ears and long tongues.

38a. Children increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.

39. Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent, that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest.--_Goethe_.

40. Children of wealth, or want, to each is given One spot of green, and all the blue of heaven.--_Holmes_.

41. Children pick up words as chickens peas, And utter them again as G.o.d shall please.

42. Children should have their times of being off duty, like soldiers.--_Ruskin_.

43. Children to bed, and the goose to the fire.

44. Children should laugh, but not mock; and when they laugh, it should not be at the weaknesses and faults of others.--_Buskin._

45. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.--Bacon. 46. Children tell in the streets what they hear round the hearth.--_Portuguese._

47. Das kann ein Kind machen. [A child can do that--that is very easy.]--_German._

48. Das Kind mit dem Bade verschutten. [To throw away the child with the bath--to reject the good along with the bad.]--_German._

49. Dat is en kinnerspil. [That's child's play--very easy.]

--_Frisian._

50. Dat lutjeste un lefste. [The youngest and dearest.]

--_Frisian._

51. Dawted [i.e. petted] bairns dow bear little.--_Scotch._

52. Dawted dochters mak' dawly [slovenly] wives.--_Scotch._

53. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.--_Thomson._

54. De wesen wil bemint, de nem sin naver kind. [Who would be loved, let him take his neighbour's child.]--Frisian.

55. Die Kinder sind mein liebster Zeitvertreib. [Children are my dearest pastime.]--_Chamisso._

56. Dochders zijn broze waaren. [Daughters are brittle ware.]--_Dutch._

57. Do not meddle wi' the de'il and the laird's bairns.--_Scotch._

58. Do not talk of a rape [rope] to a chiel whose father was hangit.--_Scotch._

59. Do not train boys to learning by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be the better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.--_Plato._

60. Education begins its work with the first breath of life.

--_Jean Paul._

61. Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.--_Ballou._

62. Eet maar Brod, dann wardst du grot. [Eat bread and you'll grow.]--_Frisian_.

63. Ein Kind, kein Kind, zwei Kind, Spielkind, drei Kind, viel Kind, vier Kind, ein ganzes Hausvoll Kinder. [One child, no child; two children, playing children; three children, many children; four children, a whole house full of children.]--_German_ (with numerous variants).

64. Ein Laster kostet mehr als zwei Kinder. [One crime costs more than two children.]--_German_.

65. Es ist besser zehn Kinder gemacht, als ein einziges umgebracht. [It is better to have made ten children than to have destroyed one.]--_German_.

66. Fools and bairns shouldna see things half done.--_Scotch_.

67. Fools with bookish learning are children with edged tools; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain.--_Zimmermann_.

68. Fremde Kinder, wir lieben sie nie so sehr als die eignen. [We never love the children of others so well as our own.]--_Goethe_.

69. Fremde Kinder werden wohl erzogen. [Other people's children are well brought up.]--_German_.

70. Gie a bairn his will, And a whelp his fill, Nane o' them will e'er do well.--_Scotch_.

71. Give a child till he craves, and a dog while his tail doth wag, and you'll have a fair dog, but a foul knave.

72. Gie a dog an ill name and he'll soon be hanged.--_Scotch_.

73. G.o.d is kind to fou [_i.e._ drunken] folk and bairns.--_Scotch_.

74. G.o.d ne'er sent the mouth but He sent the meat wi't.--_Scotch_.