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

26. If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns when old.

27.
Ihr Kinder, lernet jetzt genug,
Ihr lernt nichts mehr in alten Zeiten.
[Ye children, learn enough now;
When time has passed, you will learn nothing more.]—Pfeffel.

28. In childhood a linen rag buys friendship.—Angolese.

29. In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in manhood just, and in old age prudent.—Socrates.

30. In the opening bud you see the youthful thorns.—Talmud.

31. In youth one has tears without grief; in age, grief without tears.—Jean Paul.

32. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. —Swift.

33. It's no child's play, when an old woman dances.—Low German.

34. Jong rijs is te buigen, maar geen oude boomen. [A young twig can be bent, but not old trees.]—Dutch.

35. Jonge lui, domme lui; oude lui, koude lui. [Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.]—Dutch.