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• Wake not a sleeping lion.
• Walls have ears.
• Waste not, want not.
• Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man curses it.
• A watched pot never boils.
• We live in deeds, not in years.
• Wedlock is a padlock.
• Well begun is half done.
• What can't be cured must be endured.
• What's done cannot be undone.
• What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
• What is the good of a sundial in the shade?
• What is worth doing is worth doing well.
• What will Mrs Grundy say?
• Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
• When all men speak, no man hears.
• When children stand still, they have done some ill.
• When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.
• When I lent, I had a friend; when I asked, he was unkind.
• When in doubt, leave out.
• When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
• When one door shuts, another opens.
• When the cat is away, the mice will play.
• Where there is a will, there is a way.
• Where there is smoke, there is fire.
• While there is life, there is hope.
• Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
• Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
• A wonder lasts but nine days.
• A word is enough to the wise.
• A word spoken is past recalling.
• Words cut more than swords.
• Work is worship.
• The worst wheel of the cart creaks most.
• You cannot burn the candle at both ends.
• You cannot catch old birds with chaff.
• You cannot have it both ways.
• You cannot have the cake and eat it too.
• You cannot make a crab walk straight.
• You cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs.
• You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.
• You cannot sell the cow and drink the milk.
• You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.
• You may lead a horse to the water, but you cannot make him drink.
• You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
• You never know what you can do till you try.
• Want is the mother of industry.
• The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
• We are all slaves of opinion.
• We get what we deserve not what we desire.
• We soon believe what we desire.
• The weakest goes to the wall.
• What can you expect from a hog but a grunt?
• What costs little is little esteemed.
• What is a workman without his tools?
• What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.
• What's yours is mine, and what's mine is my own.
• What man has done, man can do.
• What may be done at any time is done at no time.
• What must be must be.
• What one loses on the swings, one makes up on the roundabouts.
• What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
• What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
• When in doubt, do nowt.
• When the wolf comes in at the door, love creeps out of the window.
• When the word is out, it belongs to another.
• When thieves fall out, honest men come by their own.
• Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.
• Where there's muck, there's brass.
• Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher.
• Who chatters to you will chatter of you.
• Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?
• Who repairs not his gutters repairs his whole house.
• Win at first and lose at last.
• A wise man is never less alone than when alone.
• Wise men learn by other's mistakes; fools by their own.
• The wish is father to the thought.
• The worse luck now, the better another time.
• Worse things happen at sea.
• The worth of a thing is best known by the want of it.
• You cannot get a quart into a pint pot.
• You cannot get blood out of a stone.
• You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
• You cannot make bricks without straw.
• You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.
• You cannot serve God and Mammon.
• You may know by a handful the whole sack.
• You must grin and bear it.
• You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
• The young will sow their wild oats.
• Youth will be served.
• Young blood must have its course.
• Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse.

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