A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

A WOMAN’S work is never done

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  1570 T. TUSSER Husbandry (rev. ed.) 26 Some respite to husbands the weather doth send, but huswiues affaires haue never none ende. 1629 in Roxburghe Ballads (1880) III. 302 (title) A woman’s work is never done. 1722 B. FRANKLIN Papers (1960) 1.19 If you go among the Women, you will learn.. that a Woman’s work is never done. 1920 Times Weekly 12 Mar. 209 ‘Women’s work is never done.’ ..We shall never hear the whole of woman’s work during the war. 1981 ‘G. GAUNT’ Incomer xiv. My grannie used to say, A woman’s work is never done when it never gets started! «women; work
  

woman see also HELL hath no fury like a woman scorned; a MAN is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks; SILENCE is a woman’s best garment; SIX hours’ sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool; a WHISTLING woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men.
women see never CHOOSE your women or your linen by candlelight; ENGLAND is the paradise of women.
won see FAINT heart never won fair lady.
wonder see TIME works wonders.
WONDERS will never cease

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  1776 H. BATES in T. Boaden Private Correspondence of D. Garrick (1823) II. 174 You have heard, no doubt, of his giving me the reversion of a good living in Worcestershire. .. Wonders willnever cease. 1843 C. J. LEVER JackHinton I. xx. The by­standers.. looked from one to the other, with expressions of mingled surprise and dread. .. ‘Blessed hour. .. Wonders will never cease.’ 1974 A. PRICE Other Paths to Glory I. vii. Wonders will never cease. .. Early Tudor—practically untouched. ■ marvels
  

wood see FIELDS have eyes, and woods have ears; don’t HALLOO till you are out of the wood; HUNGER drives the wolf out of the wood.