an unloved woman when she is married, and a handmaid when she displaces her mistress.
A virtuous wife is her husband’s crown, but a dishonoring one is like rottenness in his bones.
A foolish son is trouble for his father, and a quarrelsome wife is constant dripping.
It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome, worrisome wife.
It is better to live on a corner of a roof than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.
Continual dripping on a day of steady rain and a contentious wife are alike—
If someone pampers his slave from childhood in the end he will be ungrateful.
under a slave when he becomes a king, a fool when he is stuffed with food,
Four things on earth are small, yet they are exceedingly wise: