English Proverbs · Alphabetical Index

Proverbs Beginning with W

63 entries beginning with the letter W.

W — Proverbs and Sayings

63 total
1
Wait for the cat to jump.
decision
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2
Walls have ears.
talking
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3
Wash your dirty linen at home.
privacy
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4
Waste not, want not.
waste
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5
Watched pot never boils.
time
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6
We know not what is good until we have lost it.
appreciation
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7
We never know the value of water till the well is dry.
appreciation
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8
We never miss the water till the well runs dry.
importance
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9
We shall see what we shall see.
happen
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10
We soon believe what we desire.
believe
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11
Wealth is nothing without health.
health
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12
Wear out one's welcome
trouble
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13
Well begun is half done.
start
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14
What a neighbour gets is not lost
luck
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15
What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?
behaviour
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16
What can’t be cured, must be endured.
endure
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17
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
strength
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18
What goes around comes around
consequences
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19
What happens on the road stays on the roaad,
agreement
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20
What is bread in the bone will come out in the flesh.
heredity
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21
What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
heredity
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22
What is done by night, appears by day.
disclosure
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23
What is done cannot be undone.
happen
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24
What is got over the devil’s back is spent under his belly.
spent
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25
What is lost is lost
lost
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26
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
equality
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27
What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
doing
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28
What matters is what works
success
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29
What must be, must be.
must
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30
What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
alcohol
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31
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
hurt
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32
what the soldier said isn’t evidence
evidence
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33
What we do willingly is easy.
willing
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34
What you don't know can't hurt you
ignorance
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35
What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
balance
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36
What you see is what you get
appearance
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37
What you' ve never had you never miss.
lost
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38
Whatever man has done, man may do
difficulty
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39
When all fruits fails, welcome haws
acceptance
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40
When angry, count a hundred.
anger
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41
When at Rome, do as the Romans do.
adjustment
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42
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
hurt
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43
When in doubt, do nowt
caution
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44
When one door shuts, another opens.
opportunity
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45
When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
leader
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46
When the cat’s away the mice will play
absence
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47
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
difficulty
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48
Where bees are, there is honey.
wealth
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49
Where God builds a church, the Devil build a chapel
bad
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50
Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.
ignorance
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51
Where there is muck there's brass
money
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52
Where there is s a will there is a way.
doing
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53
While the grass grows, the horse starves
late
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54
While there is life there is hope.
hope
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55
Who knows most, speaks least
wisdom
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56
Who makes himself a sheep will be eaten by the wolves.
resist
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57
Who says A must say B
logic
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58
Whosoever draws his sword against the prince must throw the scabard away
adversity
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59
Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap
alternative
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60
Wish is father to the thought.
wish
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