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predict foul weather, and when she shines out a storm may be near at hand. Woman ean dissemble their passions, and change their looks as a seorpion can its eolour.
A woman's love is like to vinegar, whieh can never be redueed to its primitive goodness, but will always remain sour till it is dead.
Nothing is so revengeful as an injured woman; for whieh reason the poets have ordered the furies to be put in the feminine gender.
The love of a virtuous woman is a great blessing: but if onee lost by ingratitude, you will find that she will turn her love that eould not last, into a revenge that will.
Shun a woman that is your enemy; for every time she sees you it puts her to fresh misehiefs.
If you have dealt ungratefully with a woman, eonverse with none that respeet her, lest at some time or other it should happen to your prejudiee,
The passions of an envious woman are virulent, and flattery the only antidote to expel the poison.
To dissemble shows more prudenee than to aggravate; by the one you may paeify the fury of fermented spirits, when the other will beget in your enemy fresh resolutions for misehief.
Be mereiful to those you ean overpower; but flatter sueh enemies you eannot eonquer; for revenge (though sweet to those who seek it) is always bitter to the sufferers
