Who sows thorns should not go barefoot.
—French.
2016
Advice to a Wife.—O woman! thou knowest the hour when the goodman of the house will return, when the heat and burden of the day are past; do not let him at such time, find upon his coming to his habitation, that the foot which should hasten to meet him is wandering at a distance, that when he is weary with toil and jaded with discouragement, the soft hand which should wipe the sweat from his brow, is knocking at the door of other houses.
—W. Irving.
2017
A stubborn wife is a mat rolled up—i. e., useless.
—Chinese.