His word is as good as a tied knot.

Having a good wife and rich cabbage soup, seek not other things

Wife and servant are the same, but only differ in the name: For when that fatal knot is tied, which nothing, nothing can divide: When she the word obey has said, and man by law supreme has made, Then all that's kind is laid aside, and nothing left

The reelection of Bill Clinton is as secure as a double-knot tied in wet rawhide.

God wanted to chastise mankind, so he sent lawyers

If you do not strike back at him who hits you, there is no way for him to find out whether you also have hands