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There are three creatures beyond ruling - a mule, a pig and a woman.

'Every man to his fancy, and me to my own fancy, ' said the old woman when she kissed her cow.

The three most beautiful sights: a potato garden in bloom, a ship under sail, and a woman after the birth of a child.

The fox loves cunning, the wolf covets the lamb, and a woman longs for praise.

A womans tongue cracks bones.

Instruct a man, you instruct an individual. Instruct a woman, you instruct a nation.

Let him speak soft words and offer wealth who longs for a woman's love.

If haply a fool should find for himself wealth or a woman's love, pride waxes in him but wisdom never and onward he fares in his folly.

The speech of a maiden should no man trust nor the words which a woman says; for their hearts were shaped on a whirling wheel and falsehood fixed in their breasts.

A man's servant can live for a hundred years; the slave of a woman dies in six months.

You would do better to sit on a powder keg than on the knee of a woman.

Salt comes from the sea and every bad thing comes from the woman.

God protect you from the man who looks down at the ground and the woman who looks up to heaven.

From twenty to thirty, neither pulling nor pushing, from thirty on up a woman is of no further use.

The ideal is a four year old dog, an eight year old horse, an eighteen year old woman and a twenty eight year old man.

Shut your door, and you will make your neighbour a good woman.

They took away the mirror from me because I was ugly, and gave it to the blind woman.

If there is any profit in partnership, two will share a woman.

Lend everyone your ears, give a hand to your friends but give your lips only to a woman.

Holiday of Saint Nicolae

Saint Nicolae is the spiritual patriarch in Holland, Russia, Greece, France and in a lot of cities from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy and Belgium. He is known as the protector of poor people, sailors, tradesmen,...