Proverbs with Keyword: "WIFE"
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- W343 As busy as a good WIFE at oven
- W344 Choose a WIFE rather by your ear than your eye
- W345 Commend not your WIFE, wine, nor horse (house)
- W346 The cunning WIFE makes her husband her apron
- W347 A dead WIFE is the best goods in a man's house
- W347a Do not tell your WIFE all you know
- W348 A fair WIFE and a frontier castle breed quarrels
- W349 A fat WIFE never loved a faint husband
- W350 The first WIFE is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy
- W351 A good WIFE makes a good husband
- W352 The good WIFE of a willful man has many a woeful day
- W353 The good WIFE would not (No woman would) seek her daughter in the oven if she had not been there before
- W354 He that fetches a WIFE from Shrewsbury¹ must carry her into Staffordshire² or else shall live in Cumberland³
- W355 He that has a WIFE and children wants not business
- W356 He that has a WIFE has strife (care)
- W357 He that has no WIFE beats her often
- W358 He that kisses his WIFE in the market place shall have many teachers
- W359 He that lets his WIFE go to every feast and his horse drink at every water shall neither have good wife nor good horse
- W360 He that loses his WIFE and sixpence (a farthing) has lost a tester¹
- W361 He that makes his WIFE his master had need to be set a grazing
- W362 He that tells his WIFE news is but newly married
- W363 He that will put away his WIFE 'cause she farts and his horse 'cause he stumbles will be badly horsed and worse wived
- W364 He that would an old WIFE wed must eat an apple before he goes to bed
- W365 An ill WIFE that grows not worse is not of wives the worst
- W366 Little kens the WIFE that sits by the fire how the wind blows cold in Hurly-burly Swire
- W367 Little wots the ill willy WIFE what a dinner may hold in
- W368 My WIFE cries five loaves a penny
- W369 Next to no WIFE a good wife is best
- W370 A nice WIFE and a back door do often make a rich man poor
- W371 Refuse a WIFE with one fault and take one with two
- W372 The second WIFE is best beloved
- W373 Show me thy WIFE and I will tell thee what a husband thou art
- W374 There is one good WIFE in the country and every man thinks he has her
- W375 When the good WIFE is away the keys are tint¹
- W376 When the WIFE commands, thunderbolts fly about the house
- W377 Who has a fair WIFE needs more than two eyes
- W378 Who will have a handsome WIFE let him choose her upon Saturday and not upon Sunday
- W379 WIFE and children are bills of charges
- W380 WIFE and children are hostages given to fortune
- W381 The WIFE and the sword may be showed but not lent
- W382 A WIFE brings but two good days, her wedding day and death day
- W383 The WIFE (woman) is the key of the house
- W384 The WIFE that bites her lips and treads askew is to her husband or herself untrue
- W385 Long-tongued WIVES go long with bairn
- W386 WIVES must be had, be they good or bad
- W387 WIVES of clouts
- W388 Old WIVES' tales