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

38a. Children increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.

39. Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent, that they detect and hunt out everything—the bad before all the rest.—Goethe.

40. Children of wealth, or want, to each is given One spot of green, and all the blue of heaven.—Holmes.

41. Children pick up words as chickens peas, And utter them again as God shall please.

42. Children should have their times of being off duty, like soldiers.—Ruskin.

43. Children to bed, and the goose to the fire.

44. Children should laugh, but not mock; and when they laugh, it should not be at the weaknesses and faults of others.—Buskin.

45. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.—Bacon. 46. Children tell in the streets what they hear round the hearth.—Portuguese.

47. Das kann ein Kind machen. [A child can do that—that is very easy.]—German.

48. Das Kind mit dem Bade verschutten. [To throw away the child with the bath—to reject the good along with the bad.]—German.