In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress.
Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.
One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Who then may trust the dice, at Fortune's throw?