| |
| A child of a year old sucks milk from the heel. (By running round in the open air.) Spanish. | 1 |
| A child’s back must be bent early. Danish. | 2 |
| A child’s sorrow is short lived. Danish. | 3 |
| A child may have too much of his mother’s blessing. | 4 |
| A child that can walk is a Jama (god) to the child in the cradle. Tamil. | 5 |
| A chip of the old block. | 6 |
| A naughty child must be roughly rocked. | 7 |
| A pet child has many names. Danish. | 8 |
| A Sunday’s child never dies of the plague. French. | 9 |
| A suspicious parent makes an artful child. Haliburton. | 10 |
| As each one wishes his children to be, so they are. Terence. | 11 |
| Better the child cry than the old man. Danish. | 12 |
| Children and chicken must ever be picking. | 13 |
| Children and drunken men speak the truth. Danish. | 14 |
| Children and fools are prophets. French. | 15 |
| Children and fools have merry lives. | 16 |
| Children and fools tell truth. | 17 |
| Children are certain cares but uncertain comforts. | 18 |
| Children are poor men’s riches. | 19 |
| Children are to be cheated with cockles and men with oaths. Lysander. | 20 |
| Children are what the mothers are. Landor. | 21 |
| Children are what they are made. French. | 22 |
| Children cry for nuts and apples, and old men for silver and gold. | 23 |
| Children, fools, and drunkards tell the truth. German. | 24 |
| Children have wide ears and long tongues. | 25 |
| Children increase the cares of life but mitigate the remembrance of death. | 26 |
Children like tender osiers take the bow,
And as they first are fashioned always grow. Juvenal. | 27 |
| Children married, cares increase. Spanish. | 28 |
| Children must be circumvented with words, men with oaths. Lysander. | 29 |
Children pick up words as pigeons pease,
And utter them again as God shall please. | 30 |
| Children should be seen, not heard. | 31 |
| Children suck the mother when they are young, and the father when they grow up. | 32 |
| Children tell in the highway what they hear by the fireside. Portuguese. | 33 |
| Children when little make parents fools, when great, mad. | 34 |
| Child’s pig, father’s hog. | 35 |
| Every man is to be envied who is fortunate with his children. Euripides. | 36 |
| From children expect childish acts. Danish. | 37 |
| From many children and little bread good Lord deliver us. | 38 |
| Give a child till he craves and a dog while his tail doth wag and you’ll have a fair dog but foul knave. | 39 |
| Give a child his will and a whelp his fill and neither will thrive. | 40 |
| Give to a pig when it grunts and to a child when it cries, and you’ll have a fine pig and a bad child. Danish. | 41 |
| Gold must be beaten and a child scourged. | 42 |
| Gude bairns get broken brows. | 43 |
| Happy is the child whose father went to the devil; i.e., died rich. | 44 |
| He knows not what love is that has not children. Italian. | 45 |
| He remembers his ancestors but forgets to feed his children. | 46 |
| He that does not beat his child will afterwards beat his own breasts. Turkish. | 47 |
| He that loves his child chastises him. Dutch. | 48 |
| He who hath children hath neither kindred nor friends. | 49 |
| How did you rear so many children? By being fondest of the little ones. Portuguese. | 50 |
| |
|
|
| |
How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is
To have a thankless child. Shakespeare. | 51 |
| I hate all children of precocious talent. Cicero. | 52 |
| If the child cries let the mother hush it, if it will not be hushed, let it cry. Spanish. | 53 |
| If the child does not cry, the mother does not understand it. Russian. | 54 |
| If the child does not cry they give him not suck. Modern Greek. | 55 |
| If you have wicked children of what use is money, and if good, again what use is it. Turkish. | 56 |
| Ill bairns are ay best heard at hame. | 57 |
| It is a wise child that knows its own father. German, Spanish, Danish. | 58 |
| Let a child have its will and it will not cry. Danish. | 59 |
| Little children and headaches, great children and heartaches. Italian. | 60 |
| Little children, little sorrows; big children, great sorrows. Italian. | 61 |
| Male children are the pillars of a house. Greek. | 62 |
| Many children and little bread is a painful pleasure. Spanish. | 63 |
| Married life without children is as the earth deprived of the sun’s rays. Latin. | 64 |
| No ape but swears he has the handsomest children. | 65 |
| Of glasses and children one never has too many. | 66 |
Of listening children have your fears,
For little pitchers have great ears. Dutch. | 67 |
| One is always somebody’s child, that is a comfort. | 68 |
| Our neighbor’s children are always the worst. German. | 69 |
| Pretty children sing pretty songs. Danish. | 70 |
Quickly toothed and quickly go,
Quickly will mother have woe. | 71 |
| Spare the rod and spoil the child. | 72 |
| The best horse needs breaking and the aptest child needs teaching. | 73 |
| The burnt child dreads the fire. | 74 |
| The child is father to the man. Wordsworth. | 75 |
| The child names the father, the mother knows him. Livonian. | 76 |
| The child saith nothing but what he heard at the fireside. | 77 |
| The child should be instructed in the arts that will be useful to the man. Spartan King. | 78 |
| The child that trembles at a rod will never dare to look upon a sword. Theoderic. | 79 |
| The child who gets a step-mother also gets a step-father. Greek. | 80 |
| The dearer the child, the sharper must be the rod. Danish. | 81 |
| The eternal child dwells in fine natures. De Quincey. | 82 |
| The two best books to a child are a good mother’s face and life. | 83 |
| There are no children now-a-days. French. | 84 |
| There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them. | 85 |
| Thy child that is no child leave upon the water and let him swim. | 86 |
| ’Tis better to bind your children to you by gentleness than fear. | 87 |
| To save a father is a child’s chief honor. Byron. | 88 |
| Train up a child in the way he should go. | 89 |
| What children hear at home soon flies abroad. | 90 |
| What the parents spin the children must reel. German. | 91 |
| When children stand quiet they have done some harm. | 92 |
| When the child cuts its teeth death is on the watch. Spanish. | 93 |
| When the child is man we burn the rod. | 94 |
| When the child is christened come god fathers enough. French. | 95 |
| |
