44. To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.—Auerbach.
45. Vinegar the son of wine [i.e. an unpopular son of a popular father].—Talmud.
46. Whoso wishes to live without trouble, let him keep from step-children and winter-hogs.—Low German.
CHAPTER XXXI.
PROVERBS, SAYINGS, ETC., ABOUT CHILDHOOD, YOUTH, AND AGE.
1. A' are guid lasses, but where do a' the ill wives come frae? —Scotch.
2. Age does not make us childish, as people say; it only finds us still true children.—Goethe.
3. Aliud legunt pueri, aliud viri, aliud senes. [Children read one way, men another, old men another.]—Terence.
4. A man at five may be a fool at fifteen.
5. A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.