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One Thousand Proverbs on Woman, Wife, Daughter– Part 5
81.Whosoever is tired of happy days let him take a wife.
82.A woman can take away more from a house in her apron more than a man bring into it in a hay cart.
83. A woman eats bitterness.
84. When there is a good woman in the house joy laughs from the window.
85.When women make the bread and do the washing they have the devil in their body.
—Dutch proverbs
86.An only daughter becomes a bitch.
87.A daughter carries out of the house, but a son brings into the house.
88. When the daughter is the height of your knee, let her dowry chest come up to her breast.
89.It is better to live at a daughter’s foot-end than at a son’s head-end.
90. The daughters of the house are nothing but ornaments of the front garden and articles for sale.
91.It is better to die at a wicked daughter’s bed-foot than a good daughter in law’s bed head.
92. A daughter in law is the mother in law’s medicine.
93. The daughter and the buck-wheat, the frying pan and the small cauldron are the ruin of the farm.
94.You cannot know a girl before she has become the wearer of the bonnet
(in old times married women used to wear bonnets)
(Married Tamil Hindu women wear a toe ring called METTI and North Indian Hindu women wear Red colour Kunkum in the parting of hair on head)
95.A girl without a needle is like cat without a claw.
96.Young girl and wheaten bread quickly grow old.
97.A man always gets a wife.
98.If you want all the world to know, tell your wife.
99. A dove when a girl; a club when a wife
100. He who knocks his wife about properly will be forgiven a hundred sins.
–Estonian proverbs
To be continued……………………..
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