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PROVERB- 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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