From a Rich House buy a Horse, from a Poor House take a Wife-Part 7 (Post No.14,842)

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Post No. 14,842

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One Thousand Proverbs on Woman, Wife, Daughter– Part -7

121.Have a woman young and liver warm.

122.A woman’s finger and a mare’s jaw are always in motion.

123.A woman’s and a hen’s head are alike.

124.A sieve will hold water better than a woman’s mouth a secret.

125. Woman’s sense is like a ragged shirt.

126. The woman’s whet stone and the hen’s handkerchief are unknown to the devil.

127. From where the wind, there the mind; woman’s wisdom is – to keep indoors from wolf.

128.One woman’s woof nine women’s warp.

129. Women do not understand what men see in a man

–Estonian Proverbs.

130.All girls are good, but whence come the naughty old woman.

131. What you will drop, lay it in your bosom; what you will reveal, say it to your wife.

132. A man has plenty of time to choose a wife.

133. From a rich house buy a horse, from a poor house take a wife.

134. It is well to seek a wife in the village, but not in the street.

135. A man without a wife is a man without thought.

136. The goat’s butter, the wife’s property- these things are needed in the house.

137. The mill goes with the current and woman against it.

138. A man is needed for a day, a dog for a week, a woman always.

139.The stony earth grows the corn, the angry woman does the work.

140. A poor woman has many troubles; weeping children, wet firewood, leaking kettle and a cross man.

—Finnish Proverbs.

To be continued…………………

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