Don't marry a good-looking bride for you'll have to watch her. Where the heart loves, there the legs walk. Marry a man older than you and not a younger man, who will tire of you. When the husband is a hen and the wife is a cock, the house is topsy-turvy. A neck without a head, buttocks without a hole and a girl without shame are not worth admiring or marrying.
Marriage is a lick of honey and a barrel of bitter.
The wagtail hops and flaps its wings, but the male dove feeds and coos. Man is a faggot of thorns. We are all flesh and blood. In this world a pint of sweetness and a barrel of bitterness. He who has had no experience of evil cannot know the worth of what is good.