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

57. The mother makes the house or mars it.

58. The nurse's bread is better than the mother's cake. —Frisian.

59. The prayer of the mother fetches her child out of the bottom of the sea.—Russian.

60. The watchful mother tarries nigh, Though sleep has closed her infant's eye.—Keble.

61. There is nothing more charming to see than a mother with her child in her arms, and there is nothing more venerable than a mother among a number of her children.—Goethe.

62. Though a mother be a wolf, she does not eat her cub's flesh.—Afghan.

63. Timidi mater non flet. [The coward's mother need not weep.]—Latin.

64. To a child in confinement its mother's knee is a binding-post. —Hitopadesa.

65. Unhappy is the man for whom his own mother has not made all mothers venerable.—Jean Paul.

66. Unless the child cries even the mother will not give it suck.—Telugu.