The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Part 56

123. Sores are not to be shown to flies, and children are not to be taught to lie.--_Malay._

124. Spare the rod and spoil the child.

125. Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom, and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.--_Mahomet._

126. Tenez la bride haute a votre fils. [Keep a tight rein over your son.]--_French._

127. That's the piece a step-bairn never gat.--_Scotch._

128. The bairn speaks in the field what he hears at the fireside.

--_Scotch._

129. The bearing and the training of a child is woman's wisdom.

--_Tennyson._

130. The best horse needs breeding and the aptest child needs teaching.--_Arabic._

131. The boy's will is the wind's will.--_Lapp._

132. The chief art is to make all that children have to do sport and play.--_Locke._

133. The child says nothing but what he heard at the fireside.

--_Spanish._

134. The de'il's bairns hae the de'il's luck.--_Scotch._

135. The heart is a child; it desires what it sees.--_Turkish._

136. The heart of childhood is all mirth.--_Keble._

137. The king is the strength of the weak; crying is the strength of children.--_Sanskrit._

138. The right law of education is that you take the best pains with the best material.--_Ruskin._

139. The spring is the youth of trees, wealth is the youth of men, beauty is the youth of women, intelligence is the youth of the young.--_Sanskrit._

140. The plays of children are the germinal leaves of all later life.--_Froebel._

141. The time of breeding is the time of doing children good.

--_George Herbert._

142. They were scant o' bairns that brought you up.--_Scotch._

143. The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or perchance a palace on the earth; at length middle-aged, he concludes to build a woodshed with them.--_Th.o.r.eau._

144. They who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; these gave them life only, those the art of well-living.--_Aristotle._

145. To a child all weather is cold.

146. To endure is the first and most necessary lesson a child has to learn.--_Rousseau._

147. To write down to children's understandings is a mistake; set them on the scent, and let them puzzle it out.--_Scott._

148. Un enfant brule craint le feu. [A burnt child dreads the fire.]--_French._

149. Ungezogene Kinder gehen zu Werk wie Binder. [Unbred children go to work like cattle.]--_German._

150. Viel Kinder viel Vaterunser, viel Vaterunser viel Segen. [Many children, many Paternosters; many Paternosters, many blessings.]--_German_.

151. We ought not to teach the children the sciences, but give them a taste for them.--_Rousseau_.

152. Wen de gosen water sen, dan willen se drinken. [When the geese (_i.e._ children) see water, they want to drink.]--_Frisian_.

153. Wenn das Kind ertrunken ist, deckt man den Brunnen. [When the child is drowned, the well is covered.]--_German_.

154. Wenn Kinder und Narren zu Markte gehen, losen die Kramer Geld.

[When children and fools go to market, the dealers make money.]--_German_.

155. Wenn Kinder wohl schreien, so lebeu sie lange. [When children cry well, they live long.]--_German_.

156. Wer wil diu kint vraget, der wil si liegen leren. [Who asks children many questions teaches them to lie.]--_Old High German_.

157. What children hear at home soon flies abroad.

158. When children remain quiet, they have done something wrong.

159. Women and bairns lein [hide] what they ken not.--_Scotch_.

160. Women and children should retire when the sun does.

--_Portuguese_.

161. You should lecture neither child nor woman.--_Russian_.

_Index to Proverbs, etc._

Following is an index of peoples and authors for the foregoing proverbs and sayings (the references are to pages):--

_A, PEOPLES._

Afghan, 377,379,385,389.

Angolese, 385,386,387,391.

Arabic, 388,400.

Badaga, 384.

Basque, 382,387.

Bulgarian, 393.

Chinese, 377.

Danish, 377,378,395.

Dutch, 391,392,396.