Famous Proverbs
238 Proverbs about Women
1. All women are alike when the lamp is out.
2. If ill luck were cheese, dairy-women would go wanting work.
3. Where two women rule a hearth-fire, the thatch may burn with the sparks flying.
4. Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone.
5. If you would understand men, study women.
6. Never choose your women or linen by candlelight.
7. Weather, wind, women, and fortune change like the moon.
8. Women, money, and wine have their balm and their harm.
9. 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.
10. Fortune and women are partial to fools.