Whilst the curates have all the fair dames at their nod:
From these three evil curses preserve us, good God.
(Trans. G. Borrow.)
PROVERBS.
The Man is Fire, the Woman tow, the Devil comes the flame to blow.
Choose your Wife on a Saturday, not on a Sunday.
While the tall Maid is stooping the little one hath swept the House.
He who hath a handsome Wife, or a Castle on the Frontier, or a Vineyard near the Highway, never lacks a quarrel.
He who marries a Widow, will have a dead Man’s Head often thrown in his Dish.
There’s not a pin’s point between the yes and no of a woman.