There is something in the red of a raspberry pie that looks as good to a man as the red in a sheep looks to a wolf.
A poem is no place for an idea.
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.