The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought / Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day

by Alexander Francis Chamberlain

49. Ye are but children.—Egyptian Priest (to Solon).

CHAPTER XXIX.

PROVERBS, SAYINGS, ETC., ABOUT THE MOTHER AND CHILD.

1. A child may have too much of its mother's blessing.

2. A kiss from my mother made me a painter.—Benj. West.

3. Ama sinhesten, ezduenac, ain zuna. [Who does not follow his mother will follow his stepmother, i.e. who will not hear must feel.]—Basque.

4. A mother curses not her son.—Sanskrit.

5. An ounce o' mother-wit is worth a pound o' clergy.—Scotch.

6. As if he had fallen out of his mother's mouth (i.e. so like his mother).—Low German.

7. Barmherzige Mütter ziehen grindige Töchter. [Compassionate mothers bring up scabby daughters.]—German.