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One Thousand Proverbs on Women, Wives and Daughters- part 25
Part 25
526.The advice of a clever woman will ruin a walled city.
527. No woman was ever egotistic without becoming envious, nor envious without becoming malignant.
528. A gracious woman will cause more strife than twelve armed men can quell.
529. The ingenuity of a guileless woman will undermine nine mountains.
530. A woman with a long tongue is a ladder of woe.
531. Like a woman’s benevolence and a mean man’s courage.
532. There is no such poison in the green snake’s mouth, or the hornet’s sting, as in a woman’s heart.
533. When a woman’s lip says, “it is enough”, she looks at you with her eyes and say “again”.
534. Men fear the slip of their pens; women a slip of their morals.
535. Women and sparrows twitter in their company.
536. Women can appreciate what is immediately before their eyes ( they can appreciate nothing else).
537. Women can share one’s adversity, but not one’s prosperity.
538. The first counsel of women is the wisest and their last resolution the most dangerous.
539. The palaces are full of women; the cottages of the poor full of children.
540. Good women will not drink the tea of two families (will not remarry).
–Chinese proverbs
541.Jump when you want to buy a field, walk slowly when you want to take a wife.
542. He among the full-grown pumpkins and his wife among young ones.
(the unfaithfulness on the part of the husband leads to his wife’s unchastity)
543. Descend a step in taking a wife; ascend a step in choosing a friend.
544. If your wife is too small stoop down and whisper in her ear.
545. A wife speaks and spins.
546. A woman is only envious of her companion’s thigh.
(one can control a wife more readily by working on her feeling of jealousy than using violence).
547. A woman spins even while she talks.
548. Ten measures of garrulity came down from heaven says the Talmud and the woman took nine of them.
549. When an ass climbs a ladder, we may find wisdom in women.
— Hebrew proverbs.
550. Look the other way when the girl in the tea house smiles.
551. A good wife is a good house holder.
552. A bad wife is sixty years bad harvest
553. A young wife should be but a shadow and an echo in her house.
554. A wife’s tongue three inches long can kill a man six feet high.
555. Wives and mats are best when they are new.
556. The tongue of a woman is her sword which never rusts.
557. Never trust a woman, even if she has borne you seven children
558. A wise woman seldom crosses her husband’s threshold.
559. Saying ‘NO’ a woman shakes her head lengthwise .
560. Trust a woman so long as her mother’s eyes are on her.
561. For a woman to rule is as for a hen to crow in the mornings.
562. A cat’s nose and a woman’s hips are cold
562a.woman’s thoughts are afterthoughts
563. A woman’s wisdom is under her nose.
564. Beware of beautiful women as you would of red pepper.
—Japanese proverbs
565. Kissing girls in their fathers’ houses is a custom; kissing them in your house is a crime.
566. All a woman’s intelligence is in her home; if she leaves it she will be worthless.
567. We like the man who is like us. The woman who is like us is nothing.
568. A woman never belongs entirely to him who takes her.
569. Woman and man- spade and bucket.
570. Woman is a fortress– man her prisoner.
571. Disquiet not thyself about wife thou wilt take, but know her family.
572. The man who has two wives is a porter.
—Kurdish
573. A travelled woman is like a garden trespassed by cattle
574. When God shut up Satan in Hell, He created woman to replace Satan on earth.
–Malayan
575. A woman’s word- a bundle of water.
576. When three women join together, the stars come out in broad day light. A woman’s sense is wrong sense.
577. If a woman lies it is like building a wall; if a man lies it is like putting a mat (easily seen through).
–Telugu proverbs
578. Never a straight palm or a straight woman.
579. If you want to go t the gallows without the aid of a ladder, you can go by the aid of a woman.
580. Woman is the way to prison.
—Singhalese
581. Woman, land, and money are all three homes of death.
582. Women are the food of women (require their company).
–Sindhi.
583. We cannot have too much rain in August, sun in May, talk in our story tellers or silence in our wives.
584. A fat woman is a quilt for the winter.
585. The husband of the woman is a man; the man’s husband is his business.
586. Clouds like partridge feathers, a woman that eats cream; one will rain, the other will elope.
587. Soil and woman yield to power; when power fails, they become another’s.
—-Punjabi
588. Tie up and carry with you your wife and your money.
589. A good-looking wife is the world’s an ugly one your own.
590. The field’s border shows the man, the door the woman.
591. A woman’s talk is like heat from glass/mirror (useless).
-Marathi
592.For sweetness, honey; for love, a wife.
593. If a man runs after a woman, he falls into marriage; if a woman runs after a man she falls into ruin.
594. A woman with child talks for two.
595. Man’s life is ambition; woman’s life is man.
–Chittagong hill people
596. Better catch a serpent and suck its poison, than have dealings with another’s wife.
597. A hare and a woman are yours while in your power.
598.Woman is a poisonous creeper; avoid her company; her love destroys faith, caste, wealth and money.
599. Without a wife house is the abode of a devil.
600. The arrival of a wife is the beginning of posterity.
–Hindustani proverbs
To be continued……………
Tags-One Thousand Proverbs, on Women, Wives and Daughters, part 25
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