You trust a thief when you trust a woman.

The fool knows after he has suffered.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.

Hunger is an altogether fit companion for the idle man.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

In work there is no shame; shame is in the idleness.