Drink wine, and let water go to drive the mill.
If I sleep, I sleep for myself; if I work, I don’t know whom I work for.
Let us have florins, and we shall find cousins.
Peel the fig for your friend and the peach for your enemy.[[34]]
In buying a horse and taking a wife, shut your eyes and trust God for your life.
Women are saints in church, angels in the street, devils in the house, owls (civette, i.e. coquettes) at the window, and magpies at the door.
Women always tell the truth, but never the whole truth.
Maids weep with one eye, wives with two, and nuns with four.
When God gives flour, the devil takes away the sack.
Have nothing to do with an innkeeper’s daughter or a miller’s horse.