MY OWN THOUGHTS (December 9, 2000)

Melius est sedere in angulo domatis quam cum muliere litigiosa et in domo communi.

From Liber proverbiorum Salomonis, 25:24, Biblia sacra iuxta vulgatam versionem, Stuttgart: Bibelgesellschaft, 1994 (first published in 1969), p. 980.

Addendum (September 18, 2017)

Solomon crosses my mind every so often. Most of his proverbs are worth learning by heart, but this one has a special punch in my case. Chances are that I am far from alone in this regard, though. The bible has been around for a couple of millennia at least, but nagging women go many millennia back. Come to think of it, they may well go all the way to the beginning of time.