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A woman's tongue wags like a lamb's tail.

A woman's strength is in her tongue.

Arthur could not tame a woman's tongue.

"Three women and three geese make a market,"ssss1 according to the Italians. "Foxes are all tail, and women are all tongue;" at least, it is so in Auvergne.ssss1 "All women are good Lutherans," say the Danes; "they would rather preach than hear mass."ssss1 "A woman's tongue is her sword, and she does not let it rust," is a saying of the Chinese.

Swine, women, and bees are not to be turned.

"Because" is a woman's answer.

And not so unmeaning an answer as flippant critics imagine. It is an example of that much-admired figure of speech, aposiopesis, and means—because I will have it so. "What a woman wills, God wills" (French).ssss1 "Whatever a woman will she can" (Italian).ssss1

"The man's a fool who thinks by force or skill

To stem the torrent of a woman's will;

For if she will, she will, you may depend on't,

And if she won't, she won't, and there's an end on't."

The cunning of the sex is equal to their obstinacy. "Women know a point more than the devil" (Italian).ssss1 What wonder, then, if "A bag of fleas is easier to keep guard over than a woman?" (German).ssss1 The wilfulness of woman is pleasantly hinted at in the Scotch proverb, "'Gie her her will, or she'll burst,' quoth the gudeman when his wife was dinging him."