Ungallant Proverbs

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 July 1916, Page 3

Ungallant Proverbs

Tile Spanish rhyme lias it: Wero a woman as little a« she is good, a pea-pod would make hor a gown audi a liood. An old English sayuig: ll' a man lobo a woman and a fart-liing he wilj be sorry ho lost the farthing. Tim French adage: A man of straw is worth a woman of gold. The German: There are only two good women in the world- - one dead and tins other can't be found. The Scotch *a.y : Honest men man y soon, wise men never. In Fife they say: The. next best thing to no wife if; a good wife. The Arabian declares: Words are. women, deeds are men. The Persian sage save: That a woman's wisdom is nndier her heel. The flerman Affirms that every daughter of Hve would rather he beautiful than good. The Persian asserts that women and dragons are befit out of the world. The Corsiean Kay*: Just as a good and a bad horse both need the spur, a pi goodl and a had woman both need the stick 'Hie Hindu : A man is not obeyed bj his wife in bis own house,, nor does she consider him her husband tinless he bent is her. Another Hindu proverb says: Drive out a woman's nature with ti pitchfork, and it will return again and again.