Family: Infelicity In

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.

Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.

An offended brother is harder to win than a fortified city, and disputes are like the bars of a castle.

A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—

…restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.

Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up:

…an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.