One Thousand Proverbs on Woman, Wife, Daughter Part 10 (Post No.14,852)
Post No. 14,852
Date uploaded in London – 10 August 2025
Contact – swami_48@yahoo.com
Pictures are taken from various sources for spreading knowledge.
this is a non- commercial blog. Thanks for your great pictures.
tamilandvedas.com, swamiindology.blogspot.com
xxxx
181.Would you take a wife, consult your ears rather than your eyes.
182. He has a wife deserves a crown of patience; he who takes a second, a fool’s cap.
183. He who has taken a rich wife has sold his freedom.
184. He that truly loves his wife leaves her at home.
185. If a man beats his wife once, e beats her often; if the man kisses the nun once, he kisses her still more often.
186. The loved one is milk, the fiancée is butter, and the wife seasoned cheese.
187. To whom God gives a wife, to him He gives patience also.
188. Praise the day at even, a wife when dead, a weapon when tried, a maid when married, ice when ‘tis crossed and ale when ‘tis drunk.
189. A wife who must be guarded is not worth the guard
(It is in Tamil Tirukkural by poet Tiru Valluvar too.
Of what avail is watch and ward?
Honour’s woman’s safest guard – Tirukkural 57)190.
190. To spin, to cry, to wash, to lie and to cheat her friend is the manner of many a woman.
191. A sack full of fleas is easier to watch than a woman.
192. A woman, a mill, and an old house always require something repairing.
193. A woman and a fish speak like two men.
194. He who does not love wine, woman and song remains a fool his lifelong.
195. What the devil cannot do a woman can do.
196. When a woman dies, there is one quarrel less on earth.
197. A cock masters twelve hens, a woman half as many men.
198. A woman has the form of an angel, the heart of a serpent, and the sense of an ass.
199. Man without woman is a head without a body; woman without a man is body without head.
200. Woman is like an onion, nice and white to look at, but when cut into, there is no kernel, no heart, and one must cry.
– German Proverbs
To be continued……………………
Tags- Woman, onion, wine, to cry, watch, woman, thousand proverbs, part 10
Tamil and Vedas 