This morning, feeling a bit nostalgic about my late Dad, I picked up his little book: "Proverbs: Wisdom on the Streets" and read a bit and had quite a good chuckle and felt close to my Dad. Nostalgia waned and I am now with a bounce to my feet once again.
I present to you his collection of Proverbs on problems of life with regard to marriages, women and wives. @Pirtim will be delighted with these gems:
Intro:
"The special circumstance of the creation of Eve accounted for the weaknesses and the inferior status of wives to their husbands from the immemorial time to this day.
God extracted one of the ribs of Adam to make Eve.
If God extracted bone from the head alone, a woman would be head of man. If God extracted from any of Adam’s toes, women would become the slaves or foot-stools or mats of their husbands. God, instead, extracted one of the ribs of Adam to make wife and her husband, live together heart-to-heart as senior and junior partners.
The husband is the master in the partnership and has the strength to beat his wife, but God compensates the wife by giving her the strategy to win any conflict or words of attrition arising between her and her husband. When God causes a wreck, HE always gives compensations. If fish cannot be found, cray-fish is available. If one door closes, ten others will open.
Read the Proverbs with regard to women and wives from across the globe following:
(1) Adam’s rib does not bring so much usefulness as damage. (Polish)
(2) Adam took a spade, and Eve a distaff, and from them come all our nobility. (Danish)
(3) A man is a man, even a ruined one. (Finnish)
(4) When God wants to castigate a man, He gives him thoughts of marriage.
(5) Marriage is an evil that men pray for. (Greek)
(6) Either do not marry at all, or if you marry, be the master. (Greek)
(7) You lift it, I’II do the groaning. (Lettish)
(8) Adam’s rib has more aloes (bitter purgatives) than honey. (French)
(9) Consult thy wife and do the reverse of what she advises. (Tunisian)
(10) There are only two good women in the world, one is lost and the other cannot be found. (Polish)
(11) A wife is an evil that you cannot do without. (Serbian)
(12) Marriage is a sack in which are found ninety-nine vipers and an eel. (Spanish)
(13) Wedlock is like a besieged fortress, those who are outside wish to get in, and those who are inside wish to get out. (Arabic)
(14) Though a woman has given you ten sons, do not trust her. (Chinese)
(15) The advice of a clever woman will ruin a walled city. (Chinese)
(16) The arrival of a wife is the beginning of posterity. (India)
(17) Without a wife a house is the abode of a devil. (Hindi)
(18) Men are mountains and women are levers which move them. (Pashto)
(19) Beware of men who shed tears and women who don’t. Beware of men who have no beard and women who have.
(20) In partnership with the devil, a woman wins.
(21) Even the devil does not know where women sharpen their knives.
Quite a read, but it is some happy read. Let us continue to make Twitter intellectually stimulating even as we delve (that AI word😂) into our many political and economic issues.
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