5. A man at sixteen will prove a child at sixty.
6. An old knave is no babe.
7. A smiling boy seldom proves a good servant.
8. Auld folk are twice bairns.--_Scotch_.
9. Aus gescheidenen Kindern werden Gecken. [From clever children come fools.]--_German_.
10. Aus Kindern werden Leute, aus Jungfern werden Braute.
[From children come grown-up people, from maidens come brides.]
--_German_.
11. Better bairns greet [_i.e._ weep] than bearded men.
--_Scotch_.
12. Childhood and youth see all the world in persons.
--_Emerson_.
13. Childhood often holds a truth in its feeble fingers, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain, and which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.--_Ruskin_.
14. Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.--_Milton_.
15. Der Jungling kampft, damit der Greis geniesse. [The youth fights, in order that the old man may enjoy.]--_Goethe_.
16. Een diamant van een dochter wordt een glas van eene vrouw. [A diamond of a daughter becomes a gla.s.s of a wife.]--_Dutch_.
17. Eident [_i.e._ diligent] youth makes easy age.--_Scotch_.
18.
Ewig jung zu bleiben Ist, wie Diehter schreiben, Hochstes Lebensgut; Willst du es erwerben, Musst du fruhe sterben.
[To remain ever-young Is, as poets write, The highest good of life; If thou wouldst acquire it, Thou must die young.]--_Ruckert_.
19. Fanciulli piccioli, dolor di testa; fanciulli grandi dolor di cuore.
[Little children bring head-ache, big children, heart-ache.]
--_Italian_.
20. Giovine santo, diavolo vecchio. [Young saint, old devil.]
--_Italian_.
21. Hang a thief when he"s young, and he"ll no steal when he"s auld.--_Scotch_.
22. Happy child! the cradle is still to thee an infinite s.p.a.ce; once grown into a man, and the boundless world will be too small to thee.--_Schiller_.
23. He cometh to you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.--_Sir Philip Sidney_.
24. He who mocks the infant"s faith Shall be mocked in age and death.--_Blake_.
25. How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man!
--_Ovid_.
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 pa.s.sed, 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._
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"epargne. [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._
46. My son"s my son till he hath got him a wife, But my daughter"s my daughter all the days of her life.
47. Nicht die Kinder bloss speist man mit Mrchen ab. [Not children alone are put off with tales.]--_Leasing._