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| Proverb - W
Wake not a sleeping lion.Walk softly but carry a big stick.Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.Want is the mother of industry.Want makes strife 'twixt man and strife.Want of variety leads to satiety.Want of wit is worse than want of wealth.Want will be your master.Wanton kittens make sober cats.Wanton kittens may make sober cats.War brings scars.War is death's feast.War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.War to the knife.War, hunting and law are as full of trouble as pleasure.Wash a blackamoor white.Wash your hands often, your feet seldom, and your head never.Waste makes want.Waste not want not.We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.We are bound to be honest, but not to be rich.We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.We bachelors grin, but you married men laugh till your hearts ache.We can drink of the burn when we cannot bite of the brae.We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours.We can shape coat and sark for them, but we cannot shape their weird.We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.We don't kill a pig every day.What goes up must come down.What greater crime than loss of time?What is gotten over the devil's back is spent under his belly.What is worth doing is worth doing well.What man has done, man can do.What Manchester says today, the rest of England says tomorrow.What must be, must be.What raging rashly is begun,
Challengeth shame before half done.What should a cow do with a nutmeg?What you have, hold.What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.What you spend, you have.What you've never had you never miss.What! give the lettuce in charge to the geese!What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.What's bred in the bone will never out of the flesh.What's done can't be mended.What's done is done.What's one man's meat's another man's poison.What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.What's sport to you is death to us. [Fable of Boys and Frogs.]What's the good of a sun-dial in the shade?What's yours is mine, and what's mine's my own.Whatever is given to the poor, is laid out of the reach of fortune.Whatever man had done, man may do.When a couple are newly married, the first month is honeymoon, or smick smack: the second is, hither and thither: the third is thwick thwack: the fourth, the devil take them that brought thee and I together.When in doubt, leave it out.When mules breed. [i.e., Never.]When one is prepared, difficulties do not come.When one will not, two cannot quarrel.When our enemy flies, build him a golden bridge.When Oxford draws knife, England's soon at strife.When passion entereth at the fore-gate wisdom goes out at the postern.When poverty comes in at the door, love jumps out at the window.When rogues fallout, honest men come by their own.When round the moon there is a brugh,
The weather will be cold and rough.When silent men speak they speak to the purpose.When sorrow is asleep wake it not.When the belly is full the mind is amongst the maids.When the devil is blind.When the frog has hair.When two Sundays meet.When your companions get drunk and fight,
Take up your hat, and wish them good night.Where a chest lieth open, a righteous man may sin.Where bees are, there is honey.Where coin is not common, common must be scant.Where curiosity is not the purveyor, detraction will soon be starved.Where God hath his church, the devil will have his chapel.Where God helps, nought harms.Where God sends babbies he sends penny loaves.Where honour ceases, knowledge decreases.Where honour ceaseth, there knowledge decreaseth.Where MacGregor sits at the head of the table.Where man is not, nature is barren.Where no fault is, there needs no pardon.Where nothing is, a little doth ease.Where nothing is, the king must lose his right.Where one door shuts another opens.Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home.Whilst we drink, prank ourselves, with wenches daily,
Old age upon's at unawares doth sally.Who hears music feels his solitude.Who is well seated, let him not budge.Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?Who keeps company with a wolf will learn to howl.Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.Willy nilly.Wise men are caught with wiles.Wise men care not for what they cannot have.Wise men change their minds, fools never.Wise men have their mouths in their hearts, fools their hearts in their mouths.Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.Wise men propose, and fools determine.Wise rats run from a falling house.Wishers and wolders be small householders.Wishes are the echo of a lazy will.Wit is folly unless a wise man hath the keeping of it.Wit once bought is worth twice taught.Wit's never bought till it's paid for.With empty hands men may no hawks allure.With one foot in the grave.Words are but sands; 'tis money buys lands.Would you have potatoes grow by the pot-side?Wranglers never want words.Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. Wrong never comes right. |
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