Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Women and melons are at their best when
they are really ripe.
Women and wine rid a man of his common
sense.
Women and wine, game and deceit, Make
the wealth small and the wants great.
Women are always better the following
year.
Women are as beautiful as flowers when
they are forty years old.
Women are as changeable as the sea.
Women are as changeable as the wind.
Women are as fickle as April weather.
Women are as wavering as the wind.
Women are just like cats -- they always land
on their feet
Women are like books: too much gilding
makes men suspicious that the binding is
the most important part.
Women are like raindrops: some fall on
palaces, others on ricefields.
Women are like wasps in their anger.
Women are necessary evils.
Women are never at a loss for words.
Women are shy and shame prevents them
from refusing a man.
Women are stronger than men, they do not
die of wisdom.
Women are supernumerary when present,
and missed when absent.
Women are the best promoters of the young
fruit of the lemon tree.
Women are the devil's nets.
Women are watches that keep bad time.
Women are wise impromptu, fools on
reflection.
Women believe the strangest of lies as long
as they are wrapped up in praise.
Women can keep only one secret -- their
own.
Women can't keep secrets.
Women claim they are few women ruling in
the world, but women are ruling their
husbands. Then who is realy ruling the
world?
Women do not drink liquor, but it
disappears when they are present.
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Women don't know what a secret is.
Women have got long hair and short sense.
Women have long skirts and short minds.
Women have no chiefs.
Women have no court.
Women in mischief are wiser than men.
Women in state affairs are like monkeys in
glass-houses.
Women know a point more than the devil.
Women naturally deceive, weep and spin.
Women never praise without gossiping.
Women only keep quiet about their age.
Women prefer to be beautiful rather than
good.
Women rouge that they may not blush.
Women were born to be treasured.
Women when injured are generally not
easily appeased.
Women who are often at the looking-glass
seldom spin.
Women will believe any lie that is wrapped
in praise.
Women, asses, and nuts, require strong
hands.
Women, fire, and the sea are perilous for
man.
Women, fortune, and gold, favour fools.
Women, melons, and cheese are bought by
the weight.
Women, money, and wine have their balm
and their harm.
Women, priests, and poultry, never have
enough.
Women, problems.
Women, wind, and fortune, soon change.
Women's counsel is cold.
Women's jars breed men's wars.
Women's quarrels cause the men's wars.
Women's tears are a fountain of craft.
Women's tears are fountains of malice.
Wonder at your auld shoon when ye hae
gotten your new.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Wonder lasts but nine nights in a Town.