Proverbs starting with "W"

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• W1 No safe WADING in an unknown water
• W2 He who serves well needs not be afraid to ask his WAGES
• W3 Mend my WAGES and I'll mend my work
• W4 A WAGER is a fool's argument
• W5 To be angry at (laugh at, be afraid of) the WAGGING of a straw
• W6 Merry WAKEFIELD¹
• W7 It is evil (ill, not good) WAKING of a sleeping dog
• W8 It is not good WAKING of care when it is asleep
• W9 He that WALKS plainly walks safely
• W10 It is good WALKING with a horse in one's hand
• W11 The WALKING STAFF has caught warmth in your hand
• W12 Farther than the WALL we cannot go
• W13 It is written upon a WALL in Rome, Ribchester was as rich as any town in Christendom
• W14 Look on the WALL and it will not bite you
• W15 To be driven (To go) to the WALL
• W16 To look upon a WALL
• W17 A white WALL is a fool's paper
• W18 Bare WALLS make giddy housewives
• W19 WALLS (Hedges), have ears (eyes)
• W20 We see not what is in the WALLET behind
• W21 To swear WALSINGHAM
• W22 As wise as WALTHAM's calf
• W23 As small¹ as a WAND
• W24 He is sorest dung¹ whom his own WAND dings
• W25 He wags a WAND in the water
• W26 Let his own WAND ding¹ him
• W27 Thraw¹ the WAND while it is green
• W28 Born in the WANE of the moon
• W29 For WANT of a nail the shoe is lost, for want of a shoe the horse is lost, for want of a horse the rider is lost
• W30 For WANT of a wise man a fool is set in the chair
• W31 For WANT of company welcome trumpery
• W32 He is in great WANT of a bird that will give a groat¹ for an owl
• W33 He that bewails his WANT has begged sufficiently
• W34 WANT goes by such a one's door.
• W35 WANT of money want of comfort
• W36 I will not WANT when I have and when I have not too
• W37 It is not good to WANT and to have
• W38 What you WANT up and down you have to and fro (in roundabout)
• W39 Advise none to marry or go to WAR
• W40 Clothe thee in WAR, arm thee in peace
• W41 He that keeps his own makes WAR
• W42 He that makes a good WAR makes a good peace
• W43 In WAR it is not permitted twice to err
• W44 No WAR without a woman
• W45 WAR and physic are governed by the eye
• W46 WAR, hunting, and law (love) are as full of trouble as pleasure
• W47 WAR is death's feast
• W48 The WAR is not done so long as my enemy lives
• W49 WAR makes thieves and peace hangs them
• W50 WAR must be waged by waking men
• W51 When WAR begins hell opens
• W52 Who preaches WAR is the devil's chaplain
• W53 Civil WARS of France made a million of atheists and thirty thousand witches
• W54 He that is not in the WARS is not out of danger
• W55 Of all WARS peace is the final end
• W56 WARS are good to talk of, not to try
• W57 WARS are pleasant in the ear, not in the eye
• W58 WARs are sweet to them who know them not
• W59 WARS bring scars
• W60 When as WARS are (When all England is) aloft, safe is he that is at Christ's croft, and where should this Christ's croft be but betwixt Ribble and Mersey
• W61 All his WARDROBE is on his back
• W62 Good WARE makes quick markets
• W63 Good WARE will never want a chapman
• W64 Ill WARE is never cheap
• W65 One cannot live by selling WARE for words
• W66 Pleasing WARE is half sold
• W67 WARES overbought are seldom returned without loss
• W68 When the WARES be gone shut up the shop-windows (shop)
• W69 WARE¹ and Wadesmill¹ are worth all London
• W70 He WARMS too near that burns
• W71 A Scotch WARMING PAN
• W72 He was slain that had WARNING, not he that took it
• W73 To have a fair WARNING
• W74 A WARRANT sealed with butter
• W75 For WASHING his hands none sells his lands
• W76 As angry as a WASP
• W77 She is as quiet as a WASP in one's nose
• W78 To anger a WASP
• W79 To stir a WASP's nest
• W80 Spend and be free but make no WASTE
• W81 Willful WASTE makes woeful want
• W82 It is well warit¹ that WASTERS want gear
• W83 Good WATCH prevents misfortune
• W84 A WATCHMAN must never be unprovided of a weapon for fear of the worst
• W85 All the WATER in the sea cannot wash out this stain
• W86 As good (false, unstable) as ever WATER wet
• W87 As WATER in a smith's forge, that serves rather to kindle than quench
• W88 As weak as WATER
• W89 As welcome as WATER into a ship
• W90 Cast not out your foul WATER till you have clean
• W91 Fair WATER makes all clean
• W92 Foul WATER as soon as fair will quench hot fire
• W93 Foul WATER is thrown down the sink
• W94 He was christened with pump WATER
• W95 If you have increased your WATER you must also increase your meal (malt)
• W96 In the deepest WATER is the best fishing
• W97 It will cost hot WATER
• W98 Let none say, I will not drink of this WATER
• W99 Much WATER goes by the mill that the miller knows not of
• W100 Muddy WATER is a bad looking glass
• W101 Often to the WATER, often to the tatter
• W102 Pour not WATER on a drowned mouse (rat)
• W103 Running WATER is better than standing
• W104 There was no more WATER than the ship drew
• W105 To beat WATER in a mortar
• W106 To cast WATER into the sea (Thames)
• W107 To fetch (wring) WATER (blood) out of a stone (flint)
• W108 To lay a WATER
• W109 To look to one's WATER
• W110 To mix WATER with fire
• W111 To pour WATER into a sieve
• W112 To put WATER in one's wine
• W113 To seek WATER in the sea
• W114 To write in WATER (sand)
• W115 Under WATER famine, under snow bread
• W116 WATER afar off quenches not fire
• W117 WATER after figs and wine after pears
• W118 WATER bewitched
• W119 WATER, fire, and soldiers (war) quickly make room
• W120 WATER in May, bread for all the year
• W121 WATER is a waster
• W122 WATER makes one ill, wine makes one sing
• W123 WATER runs smoothest where it is deepest
• W124 WATER trotted is as good as oats
• W125 Where the WATER is shallow no vessel will ride
• W126 You are as welcome as WATER in one's shoes
• W127 You have dived deep into the WATER and have brought up a potsherd
• W128 You seek hot W ATER under cold ice
• W129 He would find WATERS with the first stroke of his spade
• W130 Shallow WATERS make the greatest sound
• W131 Stolen WATERS are sweet
• W132 A falser WATER-DRINKER there lives not
• W133 Although it rain throw not away your WATERING POT
• W134 As close as WAX
• W135 As pliable as WAX
• W136 Soft WAX will take any impression
• W137 To melt like WAX
• W138 To work upon one (anything) like WAX
• W139 WAX, linen cloth, and fustian, a fair shop and little gain
• W140 The best WAY to travel is towards heaven
• W141 He knows not which WAY to turn him
• W142 I am for which WAY the staff falls
• W143 They look one WAY and row another
• W144 To know which WAY the wind blows
• W145 To look nine WAYS at once
• W146 It is a great WAY to the bottom of the sea
• W147 The old WAY (fashion) is best
• W148 There is no WAY but one
• W149 This is the WAY (trick) to catch the old one
• W150 To go another WAY to work
• W151 The WAY to be gone is not to stay here
• W152 The WAY to be safe is never to be secure¹ (He that is secure is not safe)
• W153 The WAY to make a woman a fool is to commend her beauty
• W154 The wholesomest WAY to get a good stomach is to walk on your own ground
• W155 Yours to command in the WAY of honesty
• W156 There are more WAYS to kill a dog than hanging
• W157 To him that wills WAYS are not wanting
• W158 The farthest WAY about is the nearest way home
• W159 He goes not out of his WAY that goes to a good inn
• W160 He tells me my WAY and does not know it himself
• W161 He that for the new leaves the old WAY oftentimes is found to go astray
• W162 Next WAY, roundabout, in at the far door
• W163 The plainest WAY has the surest footing
• W164 There is no safer (surer) WAY to follow than that of the old fox
• W165 This is the WAY (He is brought) to Beggar's Bush
• W166 To go the WAY of all flesh
• W167 To go the wrong WAY to the wood
• W168 To go the wrong WAY to work
• W169 The WAY is an ill neighbor
• W170 The WAY to bliss lies not on beds of down
• W171 The WAY to heaven is as ready by water as by land (alike in every place)
• W172 The WAY to heaven is not spread with rushes but set with thorns
• W173 Whether I would not, I cannot the WAY
• W174 Which WAY (How many miles) to London? A pokeful of plums
• W175 Long WAYS long lies
• W176 Many WAYS meet in one town (city)
• W177 There are many WAYS to fame
• W178 There are three WAYS, the university (church), the sea, the court
• W179 There be more WAYS to the wood than one
• W180 You try all the WAYs to the wood
• W181 A Yorkshire WAY-BIT
• W182 The WEAK may stand the strong in stead
• W183 The WEAKER goes to the pot
• W184 The WEAKER has the worse
• W185 The WEAKEST goes to the wall
• W186 Be it WEAL or be it woe, beans blow before May does go
• W187 He is worth no WEAL that can bide no woe
• W188 No WEAL without woe
• W189 WEAL and women cannot pan¹ but woe and women can
• W190 Whom WEAL pricks sorrow comes after and licks
• W191 Bear WEALTH, poverty will bear itself
• W192 Either WEALTH is much increased or moderation is much decayed
• W193 Farewell WEALTH and welcome health
• W194 The greatest WEALTH is contentment with a little
• W195 He that marries for WEALTH sells his liberty
• W196 In WEALTH (weal) beware of woe
• W197 Little avails WEALTH where there is no health
• W198 Little WEALTH (goods) little care
• W199 WEALTH is like rheum, it falls on the weakest parts
• W200 WEALTH is not his who has it but his who enjoys it
• W201 WEALTH makes (gars¹) wit waver
• W202 WEALTH makes worship
• W203 There is no such conquering WEAPON as the necessity of conquering
• W204 To beat one at his own WEAPON
• W205 All the WEAPONS (arms) of war (Brescia, England) cannot arm fear
• W206 WEAPONS bode peace
• W207 Everything is the worse for the WEARING
• W208 They win by WEARING their enemies out
• W209 It is better to WEAR out than rust out
• W210 Never WEARY of that which is good
• W211 He is very WEARY
• W212 When the WEASEL and the cat make a marriage it is a very ill presage
• W213 Calm WEATHER in June sets corn in tune
• W214 Cold WEATHER and crafty knaves come out of the North
• W215 Expect not fair WEATHER in winter on one night's ice
• W216 Fair is the WEATHER where cup and cover do hold together
• W217 Fair WEATHER after you
• W218 It will be fair WEATHER when the shrews have dined
• W219 Like ill WEATHER, you come (sorrow comes) unsent for
• W220 There is no WEATHER ill when the wind is still
• W221 To make fair WEATHER
• W222 WEATHER meet to set paddocks¹ abroad in
• W223 As wavering (variable) as the WEATHERCOCK
• W224 The WEAVERS' beef of Colchester
• W225 It is hard to make a good WEB of a bottle¹ of hay
• W226 It will be an ill WEB to bleach
• W227 As the WEBSTERS¹ stealing through the world
• W228 You will be wiser now you are WED
• W229 Who WEDS (marries) ere he be wise shall die ere he thrive
• W230 Never but once at a WEDDING (coronation)
• W231 One WEDDING begets another
• W232 WEDDING and hanging go by destiny
• W233 As your WEDDING RING wears, your cares will wear away
• W234 One WEDGE drives out another
• W235 There goes the WEDGE where the beetle¹ drives it
• W236 WEDLOCK is a padlock
• W237 He that bites on every WEED must needs light on poison
• W238 An ill WEED grows apace (fast, well)
• W239 Neither WEED amongst corn nor suspicion in friendship
• W240 One ill WEED (turd) mars a whole pot of pottage (porridge)
• W241 WEEDS come forth on the fattest soil if it is untilled
• W242 The WEEDS overgrow the corn
• W243 WEEDS want no sowing
• W244 He is in by the WEEK
• W245 Before I WEENED but now I wot
• W246 WEENING is not measure
• W247 To WEEP Irish
• W248 To come home by WEEPING CROSS¹
• W249 An ill-spun WEFT will out either now or eft¹
• W250 WEIGH justly and sell dearly
• W251 WEIGH not what you give but what is given you
• W252 None knows the WEIGHT of another's burden
• W253 To be worth one's WEIGHT in gold
• W254 WEIGHT and measure take away strife
• W255 Great WEIGHTS hang on small wires
• W256 Such WELCOME such farewell
• W257 To bid one WELCOME to the fields
• W258 WELCOME is the best cheer
• W259 WELCOME when you go
• W260 Let WELL alone
• W261 When the WELL is full it will run over
• W262 Drawn WELLS are seldom dry
• W263 Drawn WELLS have sweetest water
• W264 Many WELLS many buckets
• W265 Never WELL, full nor fasting
• W266 WELLAND¹ shall drown all Holland² with his excrement
• W267 If WELL AND THEM cannot then ill and them can
• W268 Never be weary of WELL-DOING
• W269 WELL, WELL is a word of malice
• W270 The older the WELSHMAN the more madman
• W271 A WELSHMAN had rather see his dam on her bier than see a fair Februeer
• W272 The WELSHMAN keeps nothing until he has lost it
• W273 WELSH PARSLEY
• W274 Without WELT¹ or guard²
• W275 Young WENCHES make old wrenches
• W276 Who goes to WESTMINSTER¹ for a wife, to Paul's² for a man, and to Smithfield³ for a horse may meet with a whore, a knave, and a jade
• W277 When WESTRIDGE WOOD is motley then it's time to sow barley
• W278 He shrinks in the WETTING
• W279 As white as WHALE's-BONE
• W280 Carleton WHARLERS
• W281 If WHEAT comes not up weeds will
• W282 No WHEAT (corn) without its chaff
• W283 Sow WHEAT in dirt and rye in dust
• W284 WHEAT will not have two praises
• W285 When WHEAT lies long in bed it rises with an heavy head
• W286 A fifth WHEEL to a coach
• W287 The worst WHEEL of the cart makes most noise
• W288 He who greases his WHEELS helps his oxen
• W289 WHEELS within wheels
• W290 As drunk as a WHEELBARROW
• W291 As wanton as a WHELP (calf)
• W292 We may not expect a good WHELP from an ill dog
• W293 A WHELP of the same litter
• W294 When the WHELP games the old dog grins
• W295 He is WHERE he would be
• W296 A WHET is no let
• W297 A dry WHETSTONE does not its office
• W298 He lies for (He deserves) the WHETSTONE
• W299 A WHETSTONE cannot itself cut but yet it makes tools cut
• W300 Sit a WHILE and go a mile
• W301 Stay a WHILE (a little) that we may make an end the sooner
• W302 Many tine¹ the half-mark WHINGER² for the halfpenny thong (whang³)
• W303 A WHIP and a bell
• W304 WHIP and whir never made good fur
• W305 A WHIP for a fool and a rod for a school are always in good season
• W306 The WHIP with six strings
• W307 To have the WHIP HAND of one
• W308 You shall have WHIPPING CHEER
• W309 March WHISKER¹ was never a good fisher
• W310 Where there is WHISPERING there is lying
• W311 Not worth a WHISTLE
• W312 To wet one's WHISTLE
• W313 You may WHISTLE (go whistle) for it
• W314 As good never a WHITT as never the better
• W315 He is very good at a WHITEPOT
• W316 How does your WHITHER GO YOU?
• W317 You are as fine as if you had a WHITING hanging at your side or girdle
• W318 You have leaped a WHITING
• W319 Call her WHORE first
• W320 Hop WHORE, pipe thief
• W321 Once a WHORE and ever a whore
• W322 She plays the WHORE for apples and then bestows them upon the sick
• W323 A WHORE is like a crow, the more she washes the blacker she is
• W324 A young WHORE an old saint
• W325 Two WHORES in a house will never agree
• W326 WHORES affect not you but your money (purse)
• W327 WHORES and dogs fawn upon a man no longer than they are fed
• W328 WHOREDOM and grace can never abide in one place
• W329 WHORING and bawdry do often end in beggary
• W330 It will not be WHY for thy¹
• W331 There is never a WHY but there is a wherefore
• W332 The WHY and the wherefore
• W333 The WICKED flee when no man pursues
• W334 WIDE will wear but narrow will tear
• W335 He that marries a WIDOW and three children marries four thieves
• W336 He who marries a WIDOW will often have a dead man's head (death's-head) thrown in his dish
• W337 Long a WIDOW weds with shame
• W338 Marry a WIDOW before she leaves mourning
• W339 A rich WIDOW a quiet house
• W340 The rich WIDOW weeps with one eye and casts glances with the other
• W341 To make a WIDOW's fire (a crow's nest)
• W342 WIDOWS are always rich (Wooers and widows are never poor)
• W343 As busy as a good WIFE at oven
• W344 Choose a WIFE rather by your ear than your eye
• W345 Commend not your WIFE, wine, nor horse (house)
• W346 The cunning WIFE makes her husband her apron
• W347 A dead WIFE is the best goods in a man's house
• W347a Do not tell your WIFE all you know
• W348 A fair WIFE and a frontier castle breed quarrels
• W349 A fat WIFE never loved a faint husband
• W350 The first WIFE is matrimony, the second company, the third heresy
• W351 A good WIFE makes a good husband
• W352 The good WIFE of a willful man has many a woeful day
• W353 The good WIFE would not (No woman would) seek her daughter in the oven if she had not been there before
• W354 He that fetches a WIFE from Shrewsbury¹ must carry her into Staffordshire² or else shall live in Cumberland³
• W355 He that has a WIFE and children wants not business
• W356 He that has a WIFE has strife (care)
• W357 He that has no WIFE beats her often
• W358 He that kisses his WIFE in the market place shall have many teachers
• W359 He that lets his WIFE go to every feast and his horse drink at every water shall neither have good wife nor good horse
• W360 He that loses his WIFE and sixpence (a farthing) has lost a tester¹
• W361 He that makes his WIFE his master had need to be set a grazing
• W362 He that tells his WIFE news is but newly married
• W363 He that will put away his WIFE 'cause she farts and his horse 'cause he stumbles will be badly horsed and worse wived
• W364 He that would an old WIFE wed must eat an apple before he goes to bed
• W365 An ill WIFE that grows not worse is not of wives the worst
• W366 Little kens the WIFE that sits by the fire how the wind blows cold in Hurly-burly Swire
• W367 Little wots the ill willy WIFE what a dinner may hold in
• W368 My WIFE cries five loaves a penny
• W369 Next to no WIFE a good wife is best
• W370 A nice WIFE and a back door do often make a rich man poor
• W371 Refuse a WIFE with one fault and take one with two
• W372 The second WIFE is best beloved
• W373 Show me thy WIFE and I will tell thee what a husband thou art
• W374 There is one good WIFE in the country and every man thinks he has her
• W375 When the good WIFE is away the keys are tint¹
• W376 When the WIFE commands, thunderbolts fly about the house
• W377 Who has a fair WIFE needs more than two eyes
• W378 Who will have a handsome WIFE let him choose her upon Saturday and not upon Sunday
• W379 WIFE and children are bills of charges
• W380 WIFE and children are hostages given to fortune
• W381 The WIFE and the sword may be showed but not lent
• W382 A WIFE brings but two good days, her wedding day and death day
• W383 The WIFE (woman) is the key of the house
• W384 The WIFE that bites her lips and treads askew is to her husband or herself untrue
• W385 Long-tongued WIVES go long with bairn
• W386 WIVES must be had, be they good or bad
• W387 WIVES of clouts
• W388 Old WIVES' tales
• W389 The most WILD are in least danger to be stark mad
• W390 To run the WILD-GOOSE CHASE
• W391 WILES help weak folk
• W392 To be wedded to one's WILL
• W393 To take the WILL for the deed
• W394 Where the WILL is ready the feet are light
• W395 WILL buys and money pays
• W396 WILL is the cause of woe
• W397 WILL will have will (wilt) though will woe win
• W398 With as good a WILL as ever I came from school
• W399 WILL is a good boy when Will is at home
• W400 He must neither WILL nor choose
• W401 WILL he nill he
• W402 He is more WILLFUL than wise
• W403 To wear the WILLOW
• W404 WILLOWS are weak yet they bind other wood
• W405 WILLOWS will buy the owner a horse before other trees will pay for his saddle
• W406 He has played WILY-BEGUILED with himself
• W407 The little WIMBLE¹ will let in the great auger
• W408 WIN it and wear it
• W409 Ill WON, ill ward¹
• W410 All this WIND shakes no corn
• W411 As swift as the WIND
• W412 As wavering (changeable, fickle, inconstant) as the WIND
• W413 Blow the WIND ne'er so fast it will lown¹ at the last
• W414 Come WIND come weather
• W415 Every WIND blows not down the corn
• W416 He catches the WIND in a net
• W417 He that weighs the WIND must have a steady hand
• W418 If there be any WIND stirring it is most evident about the church
• W419 Is the WIND in that door (corner)?
• W420 It is a good WIND that blows a man to the wine
• W421 It is an ill (evil) WIND that blows no man good (to good)
• W422 Keep (Save) your WIND (breath) to cool your pottage (porridge, broth)
• W423 Let this WIND overblow
• W424 A little WIND kindles, much puts out the fire
• W425 March WIND and May sun make clothes white and maids dun
• W426 March WIND is a salt that seasons all pulse
• W427 Piss not against the WIND
• W428 Puff not against the WIND
• W429 Sail with the WIND and tide
• W430 That which comes with the WIND goes with the water
• W431 To fight against the WIND
• W432 To go down the WIND
• W433 To grind with every WIND
• W434 To have one in the WIND
• W435 To live by the WIND
• W436 To shoot between WIND and water
• W437 To sow the WIND and reap the whirlwind
• W438 To talk to the WIND
• W439 To turn with the WIND (tide)
• W440 To whistle after the WIND
• W441 What WIND blew (brought) you hither?
• W442 When the WIND is in the east it is good for neither man nor beast
• W443 When the WIND is in the south it blows the bait into the fish's mouth
• W444 When the WIND is in the south it is in the rain's mouth
• W445 When the WIND is in the west the weather is at the best
• W446 WIND and weather, do your worst
• W447 The WIND in one's face makes one wise
• W448 The WIND keeps not always in one quarter
• W449 You may as well turn the WIND as a woman
• W450 Huge (High) WINDS blow on high hills
• W451 To plow the WINDS
• W452 He that is redd¹ for WINDLESTRAWS² should not sleep in leas
• W453 You cannot make a WINDMILL go with a pair of bellows
• W454 Your WINDMILL is dwindled into a nutcracker
• W455 He has WINDMILLS in his head
• W456 To come in at the WINDOW (o'er the hatch)
• W457 To look through a hempen WINDOW
• W458 Drink WINE and have the gout and drink no wine and have the gout too
• W459 Drink WINE like a king, drink water like an ox
• W460 Good WINE makes a merry heart
• W461 Good WINE makes good blood
• W462 Good WINE needs no bush (ivy bush, sign)
• W463 He cries WINE and sells vinegar
• W464 He that drinks not WINE after salad is in danger to be sick
• W465 In WINE there is truth
• W466 No WINE without lees
• W467 Of WINE the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best
• W468 Put not good WINE into an ill bottle (vessel)
• W469 Spilt (Puddled) WINE is worse than water
• W470 The sweetest WINE makes the sharpest vinegar
• W471 When WINE (ale) is in wit is out
• W472 WINE and wealth change wise men's manners
• W473 WINE and wenches empty men's purses
• W474 WINE and women make men runagates
• W475 WINE by the savor, bread (cloth) by the color
• W476 WINE ever pays for his lodging
• W477 WINE has drowned more men than the sea
• W478 WINE has no stern
• W479 WINE in the bottle does not quench thirst
• W480 WINE is a turncoat, first a friend then an enemy
• W481 WINE is the glass of the mind
• W482 WINE is the master's but the goodness is the drawer's
• W483 WINE is the old man's milk
• W484 WINE makes all sorts of creatures at table
• W485 WINE makes old wives wenches
• W486 WINE makes one have courage
• W487 WINE neither keeps secrets nor fulfills promises
• W488 WINE of one ear, wine of two ears
• W489 WINE that costs nothing is digested before it be drunk
• W490 WINE wears no breeches
• W491 WINE whets the wit (valor)
• W492 You cannot know WINE by the barrel
• W493 You praise the WINE before you taste of the grape
• W494 A great WINEBIBBER will buy no land
• W495 To be under another's (mother's) WING
• W496 He covers me with his WINGS and bites me with his bill
• W497 It is better to have WINGS than horns
• W498 To clip one's WINGS
• W499 To spread WINGS greater than the nest
• W500 Although I WINK I am not blind
• W501 You may WINK and choose
• W502 WINKABANK and Temple Brough will buy all England through and through
• W503 All the WINNING is in the first buying
• W504 Light (Small) WINNING makes a heavy purse
• W505 Your WINNING is not my tinsel¹
• W506 I might put my WINNINGS in my eye and see never the worse
• W507 A good WINTER brings a good summer
• W508 A green WINTER (Christmas) makes a fat churchyard
• W509 It is a hard WINTER (The hunger must be great) when one wolf eats another
• W510 WINTER eats that summer gets
• W511 WINTER is summer's heir
• W512 WINTER never rots in the sky
• W513 He that passes a WINTER's day escapes an enemy
• W514 WINTER's thunder and summer's flood never boded Englishman good
• W515 WINTER's thunder is (makes) summer's wonder
• W516 To WINTER one and to summer one for to know him perfectly
• W517 To sit like a WIREDRAWER under his work
• W518 By WISDOM peace, by peace plenty
• W519 No WISDOM to¹ silence
• W520 There is no WISDOM (law) below the girdle
• W521 What is not WISDOM (discretion) is danger
• W522 Who weens himself wise, WISDOM wots him a fool
• W523 WISDOM and haste may vary
• W524 WISDOM consists not in a beard
• W525 WISDOM has one foot on land and another on sea
• W526 WISDOM (Knowledge) is better than riches
• W527 WISDOM is better than strength
• W528 WISDOM is wealth to a poor man (He that is wise is rich)
• W529 If the WISE erred not it would go hard with fools
• W530 Think (Write) with the WISE (learned) but talk with the vulgar
• W531 To the WISE it is no shame to enter (come out of) a bawdyhouse, but not to know the way out on it (but to go in)
• W532 He is not WISE that is not wise for himself
• W533 He is WISE that is honest
• W534 He is WISE that is rich
• W535 If WISHES might prevail beggars (shepherds) would be kings
• W536 If WISHES were butter cakes beggars might bite
• W537 If WISHES were truths (thrushes) beggars would eat birds
• W538 If WISHES would bide (were horses) beggars would ride
• W539 WISHERS and woulders are never good householders
• W540 As wise as a WISP
• W541 He would fain be forward if he WIST how
• W542 As much WIT as three folks, two fools and a madman
• W543 Better a WIT cof't¹ than two for nought
• W544 Better WIT than wealth
• W545 Bought WIT is best
• W546 Bought WIT is dear
• W547 Do not set your WIT against a fool's (a child)
• W548 He has more WIT in his head than you in both your shoulders
• W549 He has more WIT in his little finger than you have in your whole hand (body)
• W550 He has no more WIT than a stone
• W551 He has some WIT but a fool has the guiding of it
• W552 He has WIT at will
• W553 He has WIT (wisdom) at will that with angry heart can hold him still
• W554 He shows all his WIT at once
• W555 His WIT is in the wane
• W556 It is good to buy WIT with other men's money
• W557 It is WIT to pick a lock and steal a horse but wisdom to let them alone
• W558 Leave WIT before it leave you
• W559 Little WIT makes mickle travel¹
• W560 Little WIT serves unto whom fortune pipes
• W561 No more WIT than a coot
• W562 Such a one has a good WIT if a wise man had the keeping of it
• W563 They talk as their WIT serves them
• W564 To have WIT (no wit) in one's noddle
• W565 WIT bought is better than wit taught
• W566 WIT in a poor man's head and moss in a mountain avail nothing
• W567 WIT is never good till it be bought (dearly bought)
• W568 The WIT of a woman is a great matter
• W569 The WIT (thrift) of you and the wool of a blue dog will make a good medley (web)
• W570 WIT, whither wilt thou?
• W571 You have a little WIT and it does you good sometimes
• W572 You have WIT enough to drown ships in
• W573 You may truss up all his WIT in an eggshell
• W574 You were born when WIT was scarce
• W575 He is at his WIT's end
• W576 The finest WITS are soonest subject to love
• W577 Good WITS have short (bad) memories
• W578 Good WITS jump¹
• W579 Great WITS (Poets) to madness sure are near allied
• W580 He always has his WITS about him
• W581 He lives by his WITS
• W582 His WITS go a woolgathering
• W583 To be frightened (scared) out of one's WITS (five wits and seven senses)
• W584 Aroint¹ thee, WITCH, quoth Besse Locket to her mother
• W585 I think you are a WITCH
• W586 They that burn you for a WITCH lose all their coals
• W587 To be no WITCH at anything
• W588 There is WITCHCRAFT in fair words
• W589 The old WITHY¹ TREE would have a new gate hung at it
• W590 There is a WITNESS everywhere
• W591 With a WITNESS
• W592 In WIVING and thriving a man should take counsel of all the world
• W593 He works his own WOE
• W594 There is no WOE to¹ want
• W595 WOE be to him that reads but one book
• W596 WOE be to him whose advocate becomes his accuser
• W597 WOE be to the wicked and woe be to them that cleave to them or to their neighbors that live near them
• W598 WOE to him that is alone
• W599 WOE to the house where there is no chiding
• W600 WOE to the land (kingdom) whose king is a child
• W601 As hungry as a WOLF
• W602 Give not the WOLF (fox) the wether (sheep) to keep (Make not the wolf your shepherd)
• W603 He holds a WOLF by the ears
• W604 It never troubles a WOLF how many the sheep be
• W605 Keep the WOLF from the door
• W606 One WOLF (bear) will not eat (bite, prey upon) another
• W607 Speak of the WOLF and he will appear
• W608 Speak of the WOLF and you will see his tail
• W609 To cry WOLF
• W610 Who has a WOLF for his mate needs a dog for his man
• W611 The WOLF and the fox are both of the same mind
• W612 The WOLF eats oft of the sheep that have been told¹
• W613 The WOLF goes to Rome and there leaves his hairs and not his manners (conditions)
• W614 A WOLF in a lamb's (sheep's) skin
• W615 The WOLF knows what the ill beast thinks
• W616 A WOLF (fox) may change his hair but not his heart (nature, malice)
• W617 The WOLF must die in his own skin
• W618 The WOLF never wants for a pretense against a lamb
• W619 Two WOLVES may worry one sheep
• W620 WOLVES lose their teeth but not their memory
• W621 The WOLVES saw him first
• W622 A dead WOMAN will have four to carry her forth
• W623 A dishonest WOMAN cannot be kept in and an honest one will not
• W624 A fair WOMAN and a slashed gown find always some nail in the way
• W625 A fair WOMAN and a slashed gown find always some nail in the way
• W626 Give a WOMAN her will and she will live the longer
• W627 He that does not love a WOMAN sucked a sow
• W628 An honest WOMAN is worth much (a crown of gold)
• W629 I am very wheamow,¹ said the old WOMAN when she stepped into the milk bowl
• W630 If a WOMAN were as little as she is good a peasecod would make her a gown and a hood
• W631 If she (he) were the only WOMAN (man) in the world
• W632 In a black WOMAN there is turpentine
• W633 A journeying WOMAN speaks much of all and all of her
• W634 An old WOMAN can do that the devil himself cannot do
• W635 An old WOMAN in a wooden ruff
• W636 A silent WOMAN better than a double-tongued man
• W637 To be born of WOMAN
• W638 Trust not a WOMAN when she weeps
• W639 What should be done with an old WOMAN (wife) but make gunpowder of her?
• W640 Who has a WOMAN has an eel by the tail
• W641 A wicked WOMAN and an evil is three halfpence worse than the devil
• W642 A wise (virtuous) WOMAN is the ornament of her house
• W643 A wise¹ WOMAN is twice a fool
• W644 A WOMAN, a spaniel (an ass), and a walnut tree (nut), the more they're beaten the better they be
• W645 A WOMAN and a cherry paint themselves for their hurt
• W646 A WOMAN and a glass are ever in danger
• W647 A WOMAN at a window as grapes on the highway
• W648 A WOMAN can do more than the devil
• W649 A WOMAN conceals what she knows not
• W650 A WOMAN does that which is forbidden her
• W651 A WOMAN either loves or hates to extremes
• W652 A WOMAN has nine lives, like a cat
• W653 A WOMAN is a weathercock
• W654 A WOMAN is never without an excuse
• W655 A WOMAN is the weaker vessel
• W656 WOMAN is the woe of man
• W657 A WOMAN kissed is half won
• W658 A WOMAN, like a German clock, is still¹ repairing (never goes true)
• W659 A WOMAN needs but to look on her apron string to find an excuse
• W660 A WOMAN says nay (no) and means aye
• W661 A WOMAN that has an ill husband has sorrow enough
• W662 A WOMAN that has lost her shame has lost her respect and her good name
• W663 A WOMAN that paints puts up a bill that she is to be let
• W664 The WOMAN that smells of nothing smells best
• W665 He has a WOMAN's tongue in his head
• W666 Let no WOMAN's painting breed thy stomach's fainting
• W667 Like an old WOMAN's breech, at no certainty
• W668 Take a WOMAN's first counsel and not her second
• W669 A WOMAN's advice (wit) helps at a pinch (is best at a dead lift)
• W670 A WOMAN's answer is never to seek
• W671 A WOMAN's counsel is sometimes good
• W672 A WOMAN's heart and her tongue are not relatives
• W673 A WOMAN's mind and winter wind (Winter weather and women's thoughts) change oft
• W674 A WOMAN's mind (A woman) is always mutable
• W675 A WOMAN's strength is in (A woman's weapon is) her tongue
• W676 A WOMAN's tongue is the last thing about her that dies
• W677 A WOMAN's tongue, like an aspen leaf, is always in motion
• W678 A WOMAN's tongue wags like a lamb's tail
• W679 A WOMAN's work is never done (at an end)
• W680 All WOMEN are good-either good for something or good for nothing
• W681 All WOMEN may be won
• W682 Choose neither WOMEN nor linen by candle-light (candle)
• W683 Discreet WOMEN have neither eyes nor ears
• W684 From WOMEN light and liquorish good fortune still deliver us
• W685 He is mad that quarrels with WOMEN or beasts
• W686 Many WOMEN many words
• W687 Many WOMEN many words, many geese many turds
• W688 The more WOMEN look in their glass the less they look to their house
• W689 Of WOMEN and fish the middle is best
• W690 Three WOMEN (Three women and a goose) make a market
• W691 Where there are WOMEN and geese there wants no noise
• W692 Without WOMEN we men cannot be
• W693 Witty WOMEN are sweet companions
• W694 WOMEN and dogs set men together by the ears
• W695 WOMEN and hens are lost by gadding
• W696 WOMEN and wine make men out of their wits
• W697 WOMEN are ambitious
• W698 WOMEN are as wavering (changeable, inconstant) as the wind
• W699 WOMEN are born in Wiltshire,¹ brought up in Cumberland,²lead their lives in Bedfordshire,³ bring their husbands to Buckingham,⁴ and die in Shrewsbury⁵
• W700 WOMEN are forgetful, children unkind, executors covetous and take what they find
• W701 WOMEN are great talkers
• W702 WOMEN are in church saints, abroad angels, at home devils
• W703 WOMEN are necessary evils
• W704 WOMEN are tempted by gifts
• W705 WOMEN are wasps if angered
• W706 WOMEN are young men's mistresses, middle-aged men's companions, and old men's nurses
• W707 WOMEN be the devil's nets
• W708 WOMEN have but two faults, they can neither do well nor say well
• W709 WOMEN have no souls
• W710 WOMEN have tears of dissimulation as well as sorrow
• W711 WOMEN in mischief (in things ill) are wiser than men
• W712 WOMEN in state affairs are like monkeys in glass shops
• W713 WOMEN laugh when they can and weep when they will
• W714 WOMEN, money, and wine have their good and their pine¹
• W715 WOMEN must have their wills while they live because they make none when they die
• W716 WOMEN naturally deceive, weep, and spin
• W717 WOMEN, priests, and poultry have never enough
• W718 WOMEN receive perfection by men
• W719 WOMEN think place¹ a sweet fish
• W720 WOMEN weep and sicken when they list
• W721 WOMEN will be quiet when they are well pleased
• W722 WOMEN will have the last word
• W723 WOMEN will have their wills
• W724 WOMEN's passions are natural and can never heal themselves
• W725 Better plays (pleases) a full WOMB than a new coat
• W726 From the WOMB to the tomb
• W727 WONDER (Marvel, Admiration) is the daughter of ignorance
• W728 A WONDER lasts but nine days
• W729 Three WONDERS of England: the churches, the women, the wool
• W730 WONT beguiled the lady
• W731 WOO, wed, and bed (wear) her
• W732 He has lost himself in a WOOD
• W733 Not to be able to see WOOD for trees
• W734 Every WOOD has its worm
• W735 Green WOOD makes a hot fire
• W736 He knows not of what WOOD to make his arrows
• W737 He that lives longest must fetch his WOOD farthest
• W738 Lay on more WOOD, ashes yield money
• W739 Like WOOD like arrows
• W740 Old WOOD best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read
• W741 There is no WOOD so green but it will set itself on fire
• W742 WOOD half-burned is easily kindled
• W743 WOOD in wilderness and strength in a fool
• W744 I will tent¹ thee, quoth WOOD; if I can't rule my daughter, I'll rule my good
• W745 Once WOOD,¹ aye the worse (never wise)
• W746 As wise as a WOODCOCK
• W747 One WOODCOCK does not make a winter
• W748 To play the WOODCOCK
• W749 Happy (Blessed) is the WOOING that is not long a doing
• W750 The WOOING was a day after the wedding
• W751 As warm as WOOL
• W752 He is not worth the WOOL of a dog
• W752a I have other WOOL to toze¹
• W753 Lemster WOOL (ore¹)
• W754 Many go out for WOOL and come home shorn
• W755 There is no WOOL so white but a dyer can make it black
• W756 You were better give the WOOL than the sheep
• W757 A WOOL SELLER knows a wool buyer
• W758 After WORD comes weird
• W759 Every WORD requires not an answer
• W760 A good WORD is as soon said as an ill (a bad)
• W761 He has his saying WORD and his denaying word
• W762 He has not a WORD to cast at a dog
• W763 He is but a WORD and a blow
• W764 He will have the last WORD though he talk bilk for it
• W765 If a WORD be worth one shekel silence is worth two
• W766 An ill WORD is always ready (never to seek)
• W767 No WORD but mum
• W768 Not a WORD of Penzance
• W769 Not a WORD of the pudding
• W770 One ill WORD asks another
• W771 One ill WORD meets another and it were at the Bridge of London
• W772 There is many a true WORD spoken in jest
• W773 There was never a fair WORD in flyting¹
• W774 To speak a cold (cool) WORD with one
• W775 To speak a good WORD for one
• W776 While the WORD is in your mouth it is your own, when it is once spoken it is another's
• W777 A WORD and a stone let go (A word spoken) cannot be called back
• W778 A WORD before (in time) is worth two behind (afterwards)
• W779 A WORD is the shade (shadow) of an action
• W780 A WORD spoken is an arrow let fly
• W781 A WORD to a wise man is enough (Few words to the wise suffice)
• W782 He is (is not) his WORD's master
• W783 At three WORDS he is at the top of the house
• W784 Bad WORDS find bad acceptance
• W785 Bad WORDS make a woman worse
• W786 Bare WORDS are no lawful (good) bargain
• W787 Evening WORDS are not like to morning
• W788 Fair WORDS and ill deeds deceive both wise and fools
• W789 Fair (Soft, Good) WORDS break no bones
• W790 Fair WORDs broke never bone, foul words break many one
• W791 Fair WORDS butter no parsnips
• W792 Fair WORDS did fet gromwell seed plenty
• W793 Fair WORDS hurt not the mouth (tongue)
• W794 Fair WORDS (promises) make fools fain
• W795 Fair WORDS make me look to my purse
• W796 Few WORDS among friends are best
• W797 Few WORDS and many deeds
• W798 Few WORDS are best
• W799 Few WORDS show men wise
• W800 Fine WORDS dress ill deeds
• W801 Foul (High) WORDS break no bones
• W802 From WORDS to deeds is a great space (distance)
• W803 Good WORDS anoint us and ill do unjoint us
• W804 Good WORDS are good cheap
• W805 Good WORDS are worth much and cost little
• W806 Good WORDS cool (quench) more than cold (a bucket of, a cauldron of) water
• W807 Good WORDS cost no more than bad
• W808 Good WORDS cost nought (nothing)
• W809 Good WORDS fill not a sack
• W810 Good WORDS help sick minds
• W811 Good WORDS make some amends for ill deeds
• W812 Good WORDS without deeds are rushes and reeds
• W813 He spares no WORDS that brings good news
• W814 It is good to find modest WORDS to express immodest things
• W815 Many WORDS breed a brawl
• W816 Many WORDS many buffets
• W817 Many WORDS will not fill a bushel (fill not the firlot¹)
• W818 Many WORDS would have mickle drink
• W819 More WORDS than one go to a bargain
• W820 Not WORDS but deeds
• W821 Soft WORDS and hard arguments
• W822 Soft (Fair, Gentle) WORDS pacify (appease) wrath
• W823 There are many fair WORDS in the marriage making but few in the tochergood1 paying
• W824 To come from WORDS to blows
• W825 To eat one's WORDS
• W826 To speak nine WORDS at once
• W827 Two WORDS to a bargain
• W828 Where many WORDS are, the truth goes by
• W829 Who gives good WORDS feeds with an empty spoon
• W830 Wise WORDS and great seldom agree
• W831 WORDS and feathers the wind carries away
• W832 WORDS are but sands (words), it is money buys lands
• W833 WORDS are but wind
• W834 WORDS are but wind, but blows are unkind (but dunts¹ are the devil)
• W835 WORDS are wise men's counters but the money of fools
• W836 The WORDS ending in -ic do mock the physician, as hectic, paralytic, apoplectic, lethargic
• W837 WORDS have long tails and have no tails
• W838 WORDS have wings and cannot be recalled
• W839 WORDS hurt (cut) more than swords
• W840 WORDS may pass but blows fall heavy
• W841 Account not that WORK slavery that brings in penny savory
• W842 All WORK and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• W843 Everybody's WORK is nobody's work
• W844 He begins his WORK today but God knows when he will end
• W845 He that pays beforehand has his WORK ill done
• W846 If anything stay let WORK stay
• W847 One's own WORK fouls not one's fingers
• W848 Some WORK in the morning may trimly be done that all the day after can hardly be won
• W849 They that can cobble and clout shall have WORK when others go without
• W850 WORK bears witness who well does
• W851 A WORK ill done must be twice done
• W852 The last WORKS of men (God) are best
• W853 He that kills himself with WORKING must be buried under the gallows
• W854 WORKING and making a fire do discretion require
• W855 As is the WORKMAN so is the work
• W856 The better WORKMAN the worse husband¹
• W857 An ill WORKMAN quarrels with his tools
• W858 Never had ill WORKMAN good tools
• W859 What is a WORKMAN without his tools?
• W860 The WORKMAN is known by his work
• W861 Good WORKMEN are seldom rich
• W862 There be more WORKMEN than masters (skillfull workmen)
• W863 The WORKMANSHIP is better than the stuff
• W864 All the WORLD cannot save him
• W865 All the WORLD is too little for him
• W866 As good be out of the WORLD (Better be dead) as out of fashion
• W867 Had you the WORLD on your chessboard you could not fill all to your mind
• W868 He that deals in the WORLD needs four sieves
• W869 He that has the WORLD at will seems wise (To have the world at will)
• W870 He that is giddy thinks the WORLD turns round
• W871 He that trusts to the WORLD is sure to be deceived
• W872 He will find it in another WORLD
• W873 I hate no one but love all the WORLD
• W874 I wot well how the WORLD wags, he is most loved that has most bags
• W875 If the whole WORLD does not enter yet half of it will
• W876 If the WORLD will be gulled let it be gulled
• W877 In the WORLD who knows not to swim goes (The world is round and he that cannot swim sinks) to the bottom
• W878 It is a WORLD¹ to see
• W879 Let the WORLD wag (slide, pass)
• W880 A mad WORLD, my masters
• W881 This is the WORLD and the other is the country
• W882 This WORLD is a stage and every man plays his part
• W883 This WORLD is nothing except it tend to another
• W884 This WORLD will not last aye
• W885 To be beforehand with the WORLD
• W886 To have the WORLD (fortune) in a string
• W887 To think that all the WORLD is oatmeal
• W888 To traverse (travel through) the WORLD safely one must have the eye of a falcon, the ears of an ass, the countenance of an ape, the tongue of a mountebank, the shoulders of a camel, the mouth of a hog, and the feet of a hind
• W889 We weeping come into the WORLD and weeping hence we go
• W890 When all the WORLD shall be aloft then Hallamshire¹ shall be God's croft
• W891 When I die the WORLD dies with me
• W892 When the WORLD is at the worst it will mend
• W893 The WORLD goes (runs) on wheels
• W894 The WORLD is a long journey
• W895 The WORLD is a wide parish
• W896 The WORLD is full of fools (knaves)
• W897 The WORLD is like a ladder, one goes up, the other down
• W898 The WORLD is not always at a stay
• W899 The WORLD is nought
• W900 The WORLD is nowadays, God save the conqueror
• W901 The WORLD is round (turns as a ball)
• W902 The WORLD is well amended with him
• W903 The WORLD may be topsy-turvy in an hour
• W904 The WORLD still he keeps at his staff's end that needs not to borrow and never will lend
• W905 The worst WORLD that ever was, some man won
• W906 The worst WORLD that ever was, the maltman got his sack again
• W907 He has a WORM in his brain
• W908 A little WORM may lie under a great stone
• W909 Tread on a WORM and it will turn
• W910 There cannot lightly come a WORSE except the devil come himself
• W911 If the WORST come to the worst
• W912 It is good to fear the WORST
• W913 It is good to fear (Provide for) the WORST, the best will save itself
• W914 Let him do his WORST
• W915 To know the WORST is good
• W916 The WORST can fall is but a denial
• W917 The WORST goes foremost
• W918 The WORST is behind
• W919 The WORST of law is that one suit breeds twenty
• W920 Hot WORTS¹ make soft crusts
• W921 Great WORTH is often found in things of small appearance (in little boxes)
• W922 We never know the WORTH of water till the well goes dry
• W923 The WORTH of a thing is as it is esteemed (valued)
• W924 The WORTH of a thing is best known by the want
• W925 The WORTH of a thing is the money it will bring
• W926 WOTTON UNDER WEAVER where God came never
• W927 A green WOUND is soon healed
• W928 An ill WOUND is cured, not an ill name
• W929 Though the WOUND be healed yet the scar remains
• W930 The WOUND that bleeds inwardly is most dangerous
• W931 Green WOUNDS will not be touched
• W932 He that is afraid of WOUNDS must not come nigh a battle
• W933 WRANGLERS never want words
• W934 Where WRATH is joined with power there are thunderbolts
• W935 Everything helps, quoth the WREN when she pissed in the sea
• W936 The WREN is Our Lady's hen
• W937 It is fair before the WREN's door where there is nothing within
• W938 As sore fight WRENS as cranes
• W939 He is not the best WRIGHT that hews the maniest¹ speals²
• W940 Before you WRITE receive and before you give write
• W941 You may WRITE on it if he say it
• W942 All WRONG comes to wrack
• W943 Do WRONG (ill) once and you will never hear the end of it
• W944 He that wreaks himself at every WRONG shall never sing the rich man's song
• W945 If I had revenged all WRONG I had not worn my skirts so long
• W946 To forget a WRONG is best revenge (remedy)
• W947 WRONG has no warrant
• W948 WRONG hears, wrong answer gives
• W949 The WRONGS of a husband or master are not reproached
• W950 To scold like a WYCH-WALLER¹