The full expression is “Out of the mouths of babes oft come gems”.  There is a similar proverb in Greek which translates as follows: “You learn the truth from little ones and madmen”, which is more fun, but essentially means the same.

I find myself ignorant of the equivalent French expression, but I am sure there is one. Proverbs encapsulates empirical wisdom amassed over time and throughout the world. With the French Presidential elections coming up, the French have adapted the following little snippet (apparently running wild over the Internet at the moment).

 

A Greek baby would answer in exactly the same way were it asked about our own collection of miserable, incapable, often corrupt, failures, now running for office here in Greece. In fact it appears (though this has yet to be officially confirmed) that our own general election here in Greece will be held on the same day as the second round of the French Presidential elections.

So the 6th of May 2012, will either be the day when things began to turn in Europe, or, more likely I fear, gloom and doom day. A day that pushed us all further into the mire of The Frau’s grand design for her final solution.

But not to worry. We won’t have to suffer for much longer! Don’t forget, on the 12th (or is it 21st? Anyway, thereabout) of December 2012 the world will end. I don’t know about elsewhere, but here in Europe the world will not end with a bang, nor even a whimper, as the poet tells us*, but with a mighty collective sigh of relief!

*“This is the way the world ends,

This is the way the world ends,

This is the way the world ends,

Not with a bang but a whimper.”

Last stanza of “The Hollow Men”, the poem by T.S. Eliot.