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The grey mare is the better horse.

The wife wears the breeches. "A hawk's marriage: the hen is the better bird" (French).ssss1

Marry above your match and you get a master.

"In the rich woman's house she commands always, and he never" (Spanish).ssss1 "Who takes a wife for her dower turns his back on freedom" (French).ssss1 But every married man is in this plight, for

"He that has a wife has a master."ssss1

"He that's not sensible of the truth of this proverb," says James Kelly, "may blot it out or pass it over."

"As the good man saith, so say we;

But as the good woman saith, so it must be."

Wedding and ill wintering tame both man and beast.

"You will marry and grow tame" (Spanish).ssss1

He that marries a widow and two daughters marries three stark thieves.

He that marries a widow and two daughters has three back doors to his house.

And "The back door is the one that robs the house" (Italian).ssss1

Never marry a widow unless her first husband was hanged.

Else the burden of an old Scotch song, "Ye'll never be like mine auld gudeman," will be dinned in your ears day and night.