My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

One shouldn't be too inquisitive in life Either about God's secrets or one's wife.

Woe to the cook whose sauce has no sting.

Men love newfangleness.

'My lige lady, generally,' quod he, 'Wommen desyren to have sovereyntee As well over hir housbond as hir love.'

Make a virtue of necessity.