The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Part 51

7. Fathers alone a father's heart can know.--_Young_.

8.Fathers first enter bonds to Nature's ends, And are her sureties ere they are a friend's.

--_George Herbert_.

9.Fathers that wear rags Do make their children blind; But fathers that wear bags Do make their children kind.

--_Shakespeare_ (King Lear, ii. 4).

10.Fathers their children and themselves abuse, That wealth a husband for their daughters choose. --_Shirley_.

11. Happy is he that is happy in his children.

12. Happy is the child whose father went to the devil.

13. Haur nizar-galeac aitari bizzarra thira. [The child that will cry, pulls at its father's beard.]--_Basque_.

14. He has of [i.e. is like] his father.--_Russian_.

15. He is a chip of the old block.

16. He is cut out of his father's eyes [i.e. very like his father].--_Frisian_.

17. He is the son of his father.

18. He is a wise child that knows his own father.

19. He that can discriminate is the father of his father.--_Veda_.

20. He that hath wife and children wants not business.

21. He that marries a widow and three children marries four thieves.--_Spanish_.

22. He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.--_Bacon_.

23. He was scant o' news that told that his father was hanged.

--_Scotch_.

24. He who hath but one hog makes him fat; he who hath but one son makes him a fool.--_Italian_.

25. It is a wise father that knows his own child.--_Shakespeare_ (Merch. of Venice, ii. 2).

26. Like father, like son.--_Arabic_.

27. Man sieht dem Kind an, was er fur einen Vater hat. [By the child one sees what sort of man his father is.]--_German_.

28. Many a father might say ... "I put in gold into the furnace, and there came out this calf."--_Spurgeon_.

29. Many a good father has a bad son.

30. On est toujours le fils de quelqu'un. Cela console. [One is always the son of somebody. That is a consolation.]--_French_.

31. Patris est filius. [He is the son of his father.]--_Latin_.

32. Such a father, such a son.--_Spanish_.

33. Tel pere, tel fils. [Like father, like son.]--_French_.

34. The child is the father of the man.--_Wordsworth_.

35. The child has a red tongue like its father.

36. The Devil's child, the Devil's luck.

37. The father can no more destroy his son than the cloud can extinguish by water the lightning which precedes from itself.--_Raghuvansa_.

38. The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.--_Bible_.

39. The glory of children are their fathers.--_Bible_.

40. The G.o.ds do not avenge on the son the misdeeds of the father. Each, good or bad, reaps the just reward of his own actions. The blessing of the parents, not their curse, is inherited.--_Goethe_.

41. The ungrateful son is a wart on his father's face; to leave it is a blemish, to cut it a pain.--_Afghan_.

42. The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.--_Jean Paul_.

43. To a father, who is growing old, there is nothing dearer than a daughter.--_Euripides_.

44. To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.--_Auerbach_.

45. Vinegar the son of wine [_i.e._ an unpopular son of a popular father].--_Talmud_.

46. Whoso wishes to live without trouble, let him keep from step-children and winter-hogs.--_Low German_.

CHAPTER x.x.xI.

PROVERBS, SAYINGS, ETC., ABOUT CHILDHOOD, YOUTH, AND AGE.

1. A' are guid la.s.ses, but where do a' the ill wives come frae?

--_Scotch_.

2. Age does not make us childish, as people say; it only finds us still true children.--_Goethe_.

3. Aliud legunt pueri, aliud viri, aliud senes. [Children read one way, men another, old men another.]--_Terence_.

4. A man at five may be a fool at fifteen.