Old Marriage Proverbs

       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.''