Proverbs Concerning Women.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12, 23 March 1907, Page 30

Proverbs Concerning Women.

DANISH. A truth telling woman finds few friends. An ill-tempered woman is the devil’s door-nail. Judge a maiden at the kneading-pan, not at the dance. Give your wife the short knife, keep the long one yourself. A bad wife likes to see her husband’s heels turned to the door. He who marries a widow with three children marries four thieves. One hair of a maiden’s head pulls harder than ten yoke of oxen. A cross-grained woman and a snappish dog take good care of the house. ITALIAN. The born beauty is born betrothed. Women and hens are lost by gadding. When woman reigns the devil governs. In craft woman can give points to the devil.

A woman's in pain, a woman’s in woe, a woman is ill when she. likes to be so. A woman who loves to be at. the window is like a bunch of grapes at the wavside. . , .