Famous Proverbs
281 Proverbs about Omen / Page 2
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Never choose your women or linen by candlelight.12.
Weather, wind, women, and fortune change like the moon.13.
Women, money, and wine have their balm and their harm.14.
April weather, woman's love, rose-leaves, dice, and card-luck, change every moment.15.
Folks say there is a lack of four sorts of people on earth: of priests, else one would not have six or seven benefices; of gentleman, else every boor would not want to be a squire; of whores, else married women and nuns would not carry on the trade; of Jews, else Christians would not practise usury.16.
Fortune and women are partial to fools.17.
Fortune is like women: loves youth and is fickle.18.
Hares are caught with hounds, fools with praise, and women with gold.19.
Priests and women never forget.20.
Priests even smile pleasantly on young women.