A WOMAN’S work is never done1570 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; workwoman 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 cease1776 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 by-
standers.. 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. marvelswood 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.
Happy’s the WOOING that is not long a-doing1576 R. EDWARDS Paradise of Dainty Devices 71 Thrise happie is that woying