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

36. Junge Faullenzer, alte Bettler. [Young idlers, old beggars.] —German.

37. Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth When thought is speech, and speech is truth.—Scott.

38. La jeunesse devrait etre une caisse d'épargne. [Youth ought to be a savings-bank.]—Mme. Svetchin.

39. Learn young, learn fair; Learn auld, learn mair.—Scotch.

40. Let the young people mind what the old people say, And where there is danger, keep out of the way.

41. Levity is artlessness in a child, a shameful fault in men, and a terrible folly in old age.—La Rochefoucauld.

42. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.—Shakespeare (As You Like It, iv. 1).

43. Man schont die Alten, wie man die Kinder schont. [We spare old people, as we spare children.]—Goethe.

44. Man mut de kinner bugen, so lange se junk sunt. [Children must be bent while they are young.]—Frisian.

45. Man's second childhood begins when a woman gets hold of him.—Barrie.