better one house spoiled than two
- better one house spoiled than two
Said of two foolish or wicked people joined in marriage and troubling only themselves. Spoiled (or spilled [destroyed]) is sometimes contrasted with filled (see quots. 1670 and 1805).
1586 T. B. tr. La Primaudaye’s French Academy xlvi. The wicked and reprobate, of whom that common proverbe is spoken, that it is better one house be troubled with them than twaine.
1587 R. GREENE Penelope’s Web V. 162 The old prouerb is fulfild, better one house troubled than two.
1670 J. RAY English Proverbs 51 Better one house fill’d then two spill’d. This we use when we hear of a bad Jack who hath married as bad a Jyll.
1805 W. BENTLEY Diary 28 May (1911) III. 161 One of the company discovering a disposition to speak much of his own wife..the Gen. observed... One house filled was better than two spoiled.
1924 Folk-Lore XXXV. 358 Better one house spoilt than two (said when a witless a man marries a foolish woman).
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