Chastity united to beauty makes a wife perfect.
Three things contribute to long life—a large house, an obedient wife, and a swift horse.
The violence of love vanishes soon after marriage. If the love of bride and bridegroom were to endure, the Resurrection Day would be at hand.
A man has no portion in the love of women when he becomes grey, or when he loses his fortune.
The lover's eye is blind.
The disgrace of a woman is abiding.
Take the high-road, though it turn; and marry a woman of good birth, though she may have been passed by.
Women are the snares of Satan.
Happy is the woman who dies before her husband.
It is better to have a thousand enemies out of the house than one in it.