18. Happy is the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.—Hare.
19. He deceives thee, who tells thee that he loves thee more than thy mother does.—Russian.
20. He has faut [i.e. need] o' a wife that marries mam's pet. —Scotch.
21. He that is born of a hen must scrape for a living.
22. I have always found that the road to a woman's heart lies through her child.—Haliburton.
23. I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.—Lacretelle.
24. If the world were put into one scale and my mother into the other, the world would kick the beam.—Lord Langdale.
25. In a matter of life and death don't trust even your mother; she might mistake a black bean [nay] for a white one [yea].—Alcibiades.
26. lst eine Mutter noch so arm, so giebt sie ihrem Kinde warm. [However poor a mother is, she keeps her child warm.]—German.
27. It is not as thy mother says, but as thy neighbours say. —Hebrew.