Many are the proverbs connecting themselves with marriages; below are just a few old ones...
"Woman has made man wise — and wary"
"A blind man's wife needs no painting"
"Who has a fair wife needs more than two eyes. "
"A fair woman and a torn gown will always find some nail in the way."
"The more women look in the glass, the less they look to their houses. "
" The lazy wife has broken her elbow at the church door..."
"Women and hens through too much gadding are lost."
"The wife that expects to have a good name, is always at home, as if she were lame."
"He that lets his wife go to every feast and his horse drink at every water will have neither a good wife nor a good horse.''
"He that tells his wife news is but newly married;" for "she conceals what she knows not."
"One tongue is enough for a woman."
"There is no mischief in the world done, but a woman is always one."
Indeed, "women and dogs set men by the ears."
"A woman's mind and winter-wind often change," and yet, "swine, women, and bees cannot be turned. "
" Women, priests, and poultry never have enough; ''for a ship and a woman are ever repairing."
"Husbands are in Heaven whose wives chide not," while "he who marries a widow will often have a dead
man's head thrown into his dish."
"Other people, especially the unmarried, can tell you just how to make domestic life a success..."
"Bachelors, wives' maids, and children are always well taught;" but frequently one of these wiseacres falls in love, ties a knot with his tongue that he can't untie with his teeth, and finds in truth that 'wedlock is a padlock.'"
"In spite, however, of the ancient saying that "honest men marry soon, wise men not at all" and that you
should "commend a wedded life, but keep yourself a bachelor," the world continues to try the trick over and over again. After all, what would we do without wives — especially we married men!"
"Wives must be had, Be they good or bad."
Perhaps it is true that "age and wedlock bring a man to his night-cap;" but the average fellow agrees
with Martin Luther that "He who loves not woman, wine and song, He is a fool his whole life long."
"Marriage has kept the world sane; it brings contentment; it creates order; it inspires personal progress."
"A little' house welt filled,
A little land well tilled,
And a little wife well willed"
"What greater joy than this? For, as Solomon declares, "houses and riches are the inheritance of fathers;
but a prudent wife is from the Lord.''
