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Proverbs starting with W

1: Wait for the cat to jump.
means that:

2: Walls have ears.
means:

3: Wash your dirty linen at home.
states that:

4: Waste not, want not.
advices that:

5: Watched pot never boils.
expression meaning that :

6: We know not what is good until we have lost it.
used to mean that:

7: We never know the value of water till the well is dry.
means that:

8: We never miss the water till the well runs dry.
suggests that:

9: We shall see what we shall see.
means:

10: We soon believe what we desire.
means that:

11: Wealth is nothing without health.
similar:

12: Wear out one's welcome
said for :

13: Well begun is half done.
meaning:

14: What a neighbour gets is not lost
means that:

15: What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?
meaning that:

16: What can’t be cured, must be endured.
meaning:

17: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
because:

18: What goes around comes around
used to mean that:

19: What happens on the road stays on the roaad,
used to mean:

20: What is bread in the bone will come out in the flesh.
states that:

21: What is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh.
states that:

22: What is done by night, appears by day.
means that:

23: What is done cannot be undone.
said to mean that:

24: What is got over the devil’s back is spent under his belly.
means that:

25: What is lost is lost
expresses that :

26: What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
declares that:

27: What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
said to mean that:

28: What matters is what works
saying suggesting that :

29: What must be, must be.
means that:

30: What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
states that:

31: What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
said to mean that:

32: what the soldier said isn’t evidence
implies that:

33: What we do willingly is easy.
bebcause :

34: What you don't know can't hurt you
suggests:

35: What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
suggests that:

36: What you see is what you get
said :

37: What you' ve never had you never miss.
meaning:

38: Whatever man has done, man may do
meaning that:

39: When all fruits fails, welcome haws
suggests that:

40: When angry, count a hundred.
advices that:

41: When at Rome, do as the Romans do.
advices that:

42: When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
meaning that:

43: When in doubt, do nowt
suggests that:

44: When one door shuts, another opens.
suggests that:

45: When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
describes :

46: When the cat’s away the mice will play
means that:

47: When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
means that:

48: Where bees are, there is honey.
indicates that:

49: Where God builds a church, the Devil build a chapel
suggests that:

50: Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.
suggests that:

51: Where there is muck there's brass
meaning that:

52: Where there is s a will there is a way.
declares that :

53: While the grass grows, the horse starves
implies that:

54: While there is life there is hope.
states that:

55: Who knows most, speaks least
meaning that:

56: Who makes himself a sheep will be eaten by the wolves.
suggests that:

57: Who says A must say B
states that:

58: Whosoever draws his sword against the prince must throw the scabard away
suggests that:

59: Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap
supposes that :

60: Wish is father to the thought.
said when:

61: Works like a cat in cockle-shells
expression for:

62: Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow
signifies that:

63: Worship the ground somebody walks on
said for :