Stupid children can bring their parents to ruin. A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip.

Better to live on the roof than share the house with a nagging wife.

Better to live out in the desert than with a nagging, complaining wife.

A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip on a rainy day.

If you give your servants everything they want from childhood on, some day they will take over everything you own.