The heart of childhood is all mirth:
We frolic to and fro
As free and blithe, as if on earth
Were no such thing as woe.
There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead;
And when she was good
She was ver, very good,
But when she was bad she was horrid.
H.W. Longfellow, 1871
We were as lambs that did frisk in the sun,
And bleat the one at the other;
What we exchanged was innocence for innocence;
We knew not the doctrine of ill-doing nor dreamed that any did.
Shakespeare 1611 The Winter's Tale
How dear to this heart are the scenes of my childhood,
When fond recollection presents them to view.
Samuel Woodworth 1817
Girls and glasses are always in danger.
Italian Proverb
15-16 years old.
The whisper of a pretty girl can be heard further than the roar of a lion.
Arab Proverb
She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
Ans all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will be beautiful. Sappho 610 b.c.
Let's be red with mirth.
Shakespeare 1611 The Winter's Tale
An angel shall my sister be.
Shakespeare, Hamlet 1601
Oh, she does teach the torch to burn bright;
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in a Queen's ear.
Shakespeare 1596 Hamlet
Courting and wooing
bring dallying and doing.
W. Camden 1636
Love is a man pursuing a woman until she catches him.
All other goods by fortune's hand are given:
A wife is a peculiar gift of heaven.
Alexander Pope 1709
Mom and Dad in Italy 1977
God could not be everywhere so He made mothers.
Yiddish Proverb
And my mother came into my mind's eyes
And gave me up to tears.
Shakespeare
From your loving son, Ron
To my mother
When I was a little kid
I didn't know what age was.
I always thought
You were thirty-three because
You were born in '33.
So to me, dearest, kindest loving mother,
You'll forever be thirty-three.
