238 Proverbs about Women
1. 
Fortune is like women: loves youth and is fickle.
2. 
Prudent men woo thrifty women.
3. 
Weapons, women, and locks must be guarded at all times.
4. 
Whenever women say good-bye they always hang around for a while.
5. 
Women and fishes are best in the middle.
6. 
Women only keep quiet about their age.
7. 
Women prefer to be beautiful rather than good.
8. 
Folks say there is a lack of four sorts of people on earth: of priests, else one would not have six or seven benefices; of gentleman, else every boor would not want to be a squire; of whores, else married women and nuns would not carry on the trade; of Jews, else Christians would not practise usury.
9. 
Fortune and women are partial to fools.
10. 
Fortune is like women: loves youth and is fickle.
11. 
Hares are caught with hounds, fools with praise, and women with gold.
12. 
Priests and women never forget.
13. 
Priests even smile pleasantly on young women.
14. 
Put the light out, and all women are alike.
15. 
Summer sown corn and women's advice turn out once in every seven years.
16. 
There are only two good women in the world; the one is dead, the other not to be found.
17. 
Three women, three geese, and three frogs, make a fair.
18. 
Time, wine, women, and fortune, are ever changing.
19. 
Two cats and one mouse, two women in one house, two dogs to one bone, will not agree long.
20. 
Watching women is labour in vain.
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