| PROVERB |
| 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. |
