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

109. Of bairns' gifts ne'er be fain, Nae sooner they give but they seek them again.—Scotch.

110. One chick keeps a hen busy.

111. Our young men are terribly alike.—Alex. Smith.

112. Pars minima est ipsa puella sui. [The girl herself is the smallest part of herself.]—Ovid.

113. Parvum parva decent. [Small things become the small.] —Horace.

114. Play is the first poetry of the human being.—Jean Paul.

115. Qui aime bien, châtie bien. [Who loves well chastises well.]—French.

116. Qui parcit virgæ odit filium. [Who spareth the rod hateth his child.]—Latin.

117. Reckless youth maks ruefu' eild [age].—Scotch.

118. Royet [wild] lads may make sober men.—Scotch.