Proverbs with Keyword: "WOMAN"

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• W622 A dead WOMAN will have four to carry her forth
• W623 A dishonest WOMAN cannot be kept in and an honest one will not
• W624 A fair WOMAN and a slashed gown find always some nail in the way
• W625 A fair WOMAN and a slashed gown find always some nail in the way
• W626 Give a WOMAN her will and she will live the longer
• W627 He that does not love a WOMAN sucked a sow
• W628 An honest WOMAN is worth much (a crown of gold)
• W629 I am very wheamow,¹ said the old WOMAN when she stepped into the milk bowl
• W630 If a WOMAN were as little as she is good a peasecod would make her a gown and a hood
• W631 If she (he) were the only WOMAN (man) in the world
• W632 In a black WOMAN there is turpentine
• W633 A journeying WOMAN speaks much of all and all of her
• W634 An old WOMAN can do that the devil himself cannot do
• W635 An old WOMAN in a wooden ruff
• W636 A silent WOMAN better than a double-tongued man
• W637 To be born of WOMAN
• W638 Trust not a WOMAN when she weeps
• W639 What should be done with an old WOMAN (wife) but make gunpowder of her?
• W640 Who has a WOMAN has an eel by the tail
• W641 A wicked WOMAN and an evil is three halfpence worse than the devil
• W642 A wise (virtuous) WOMAN is the ornament of her house
• W643 A wise¹ WOMAN is twice a fool
• W644 A WOMAN, a spaniel (an ass), and a walnut tree (nut), the more they're beaten the better they be
• W645 A WOMAN and a cherry paint themselves for their hurt
• W646 A WOMAN and a glass are ever in danger
• W647 A WOMAN at a window as grapes on the highway
• W648 A WOMAN can do more than the devil
• W649 A WOMAN conceals what she knows not
• W650 A WOMAN does that which is forbidden her
• W651 A WOMAN either loves or hates to extremes
• W652 A WOMAN has nine lives, like a cat
• W653 A WOMAN is a weathercock
• W654 A WOMAN is never without an excuse
• W655 A WOMAN is the weaker vessel
• W656 WOMAN is the woe of man
• W657 A WOMAN kissed is half won
• W658 A WOMAN, like a German clock, is still¹ repairing (never goes true)
• W659 A WOMAN needs but to look on her apron string to find an excuse
• W660 A WOMAN says nay (no) and means aye
• W661 A WOMAN that has an ill husband has sorrow enough
• W662 A WOMAN that has lost her shame has lost her respect and her good name
• W663 A WOMAN that paints puts up a bill that she is to be let
• W664 The WOMAN that smells of nothing smells best
• W665 He has a WOMAN's tongue in his head
• W666 Let no WOMAN's painting breed thy stomach's fainting
• W667 Like an old WOMAN's breech, at no certainty
• W668 Take a WOMAN's first counsel and not her second
• W669 A WOMAN's advice (wit) helps at a pinch (is best at a dead lift)
• W670 A WOMAN's answer is never to seek
• W671 A WOMAN's counsel is sometimes good
• W672 A WOMAN's heart and her tongue are not relatives
• W673 A WOMAN's mind and winter wind (Winter weather and women's thoughts) change oft
• W674 A WOMAN's mind (A woman) is always mutable
• W675 A WOMAN's strength is in (A woman's weapon is) her tongue
• W676 A WOMAN's tongue is the last thing about her that dies
• W677 A WOMAN's tongue, like an aspen leaf, is always in motion
• W678 A WOMAN's tongue wags like a lamb's tail
• W679 A WOMAN's work is never done (at an end)
• W680 All WOMEN are good-either good for something or good for nothing
• W681 All WOMEN may be won
• W682 Choose neither WOMEN nor linen by candle-light (candle)
• W683 Discreet WOMEN have neither eyes nor ears
• W684 From WOMEN light and liquorish good fortune still deliver us
• W685 He is mad that quarrels with WOMEN or beasts
• W686 Many WOMEN many words
• W687 Many WOMEN many words, many geese many turds
• W688 The more WOMEN look in their glass the less they look to their house
• W689 Of WOMEN and fish the middle is best
• W690 Three WOMEN (Three women and a goose) make a market
• W691 Where there are WOMEN and geese there wants no noise
• W692 Without WOMEN we men cannot be
• W693 Witty WOMEN are sweet companions
• W694 WOMEN and dogs set men together by the ears
• W695 WOMEN and hens are lost by gadding
• W696 WOMEN and wine make men out of their wits
• W697 WOMEN are ambitious
• W698 WOMEN are as wavering (changeable, inconstant) as the wind
• W699 WOMEN are born in Wiltshire,¹ brought up in Cumberland,²lead their lives in Bedfordshire,³ bring their husbands to Buckingham,⁴ and die in Shrewsbury⁵
• W700 WOMEN are forgetful, children unkind, executors covetous and take what they find
• W701 WOMEN are great talkers
• W702 WOMEN are in church saints, abroad angels, at home devils
• W703 WOMEN are necessary evils
• W704 WOMEN are tempted by gifts
• W705 WOMEN are wasps if angered
• W706 WOMEN are young men's mistresses, middle-aged men's companions, and old men's nurses
• W707 WOMEN be the devil's nets
• W708 WOMEN have but two faults, they can neither do well nor say well
• W709 WOMEN have no souls
• W710 WOMEN have tears of dissimulation as well as sorrow
• W711 WOMEN in mischief (in things ill) are wiser than men
• W712 WOMEN in state affairs are like monkeys in glass shops
• W713 WOMEN laugh when they can and weep when they will
• W714 WOMEN, money, and wine have their good and their pine¹
• W715 WOMEN must have their wills while they live because they make none when they die
• W716 WOMEN naturally deceive, weep, and spin
• W717 WOMEN, priests, and poultry have never enough
• W718 WOMEN receive perfection by men
• W719 WOMEN think place¹ a sweet fish
• W720 WOMEN weep and sicken when they list
• W721 WOMEN will be quiet when they are well pleased
• W722 WOMEN will have the last word
• W723 WOMEN will have their wills
• W724 WOMEN's passions are natural and can never heal themselves