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PROVERBS STARTING WITH  - W -

Wage will get a page.
Proverb

Wait long, strike fast.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry.
Proverb, (Italian)

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
Proverb, (French)

Wait, is a hard word to the hungry.
Proverb, (German)

Waiting for a rabbit to hit upon a tree and be killed in order to catch it.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Wake not a sleeping cat.
Proverb, (French)

Wake not a sleeping dog.
Proverb, (Dutch, German, Italian)

Wake not a sleeping lion.
Proverb

Walk on your own lands.
Proverb, (Latin)

Walk softly but carry a big stick.
Proverb

Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said to the young crab.
Proverb, (Irish)

Walk till the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Walk until the blood appears on the cheek, but not the sweat on the brow.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Walk with your slippers until you can find your shoes.
Proverb, (Sicilian)

Walls have ears, and little pots too.
Proverb, (South African)

Walls have ears, bottles have mouths.
Proverb, (Japanese)

Walls have ears, paper sliding doors have eyes.
Proverb, (Japanese)

Walls have ears.
Proverb,
(Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese)

Walls have mice and mice have ears.
Proverb, (Persian)

Walls sink and dunghills rise.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Proverb

Want a thing long enough, and you don't.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Want all lose all.
Proverb, (Latin)

Want and necessity break faith and oaths.
Proverb, (Danish)

Want is the mother of industry.
Proverb

Want makes strife 'twixt man and strife.
Proverb

Want of variety leads to satiety.
Proverb

Want of wit is worse than want of wealth.
Proverb

Want will be your master.
Proverb

Wanton kittens make sober cats.
Proverb

Wanton kittens may make sober cats.
Proverb

War appears pleasant to those who have never experienced it.
Proverb, (Latin)

War begun, hell unchained.
Proverb, (Italian)

War brings scars.
Proverb

War ends nothing.
Proverb, (Zaire)

War gives no opportunity for repeating a mistake.
Proverb, (Latin)

War is death's feast.
Proverb

War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
Proverb, (French)

War is pleasant to those who have not tried it.
[Lat., Dulce bellum inexpertis.]
Proverb, (Latin, German)

War is sweet to him who does not go to it.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

War makes robbers, and peace hangs them.
Proverb, (French, Italian)

War makes thieves, and peace hangs them.
Proverb

War with all the world, and peace with England.
Proverb, (Spanish)

War, hunting and law are as full of trouble as pleasure.
Proverb

Was, flax, and tin; much in and little in.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Wash a dog, comb a dog, still a dog remains a dog.
Proverb, (Danish, French)

Wash your hands in the flowing Ganges.
Proverb, (Hindu)

Wash your hands often, your feet seldom, and your head never.
Proverb

Waste makes want.
Proverb

Waste not want not.
Proverb

Watch out for the unexpected mushroom.
Proverb, (Sicilian)

Watch the faces of those who bow low.
Proverb, (Polish)

Watching women is labour in vain.
Proverb, (German)

Water after does not quench a fire at hand.
Proverb, (Italian)

Water and words are easy to pour but impossible to recover.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Water can float a boat or sink it.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

Water does not run under a lying stone.
Proverb, (Russian)

Water for oxen, wine for kings.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Water is the strongest drink; it drives mills.
Proverb, (German)

Water past will not turn the mill.
Proverb, (Italian, Spanish)

Water that has reached its level does not flow.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Water washes everything.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Water, smoke, and a vicious woman, drive men out of the house.
Proverb, (Italian)

Waves will rise on silent water.
Proverb, (Gaelic)

We all like lamb; each has a different way of cooking it.
Proverb, (Chinese)

We all refer to that of which we know most.
Proverb, (Latin)

We are all Adam's children, but silk makes the difference.
Proverb, (English)

We are all equal before death.
Proverb, (Maltese)

We are all schlemiels.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

We are all well placed, said the cat, when she was seated on the bacon.
Proverb, (Danish)

We are as the king, only not as rich.
Proverb, (Spanish)

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
Proverb

We are born; we die.
Proverb, (Latin)

We are both carriers, and shall meet on the road.
Proverb, (Spanish)

We are bound to be honest, but not to be rich.
Proverb

We are no more than candles burning in the wind.
Proverb, (Japanese)

We are not disposed to study much after heavy meals.
Proverb, (Latin)

We are not roasting, and already we are basting.
Proverb, (Spanish)

We are not so much concerned if you are slow as when you come to a halt.
Proverb, (Chinese)

We are not yet roasting, and already we make sops in the pan.
Proverb, (Spanish)

We are the authors of our own disasters.
Proverb, (Latin)

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.
Proverb

We are usually the best men when in the worst health.
Proverb, (English)

We bachelors grin, but you married men laugh till your hearts ache.
Proverb

We beat the sack and mean the miller.
Proverb, (German)

We become wiser as we grow older.
Proverb, (Latin)

We benefit by affliction.
Proverb, (Latin)

We can accustom ourselves to anything.
Proverb, (Latin)

We can drink of the burn when we cannot bite of the brae.
Proverb

We can enjoy nothing without some one to share the pleasure.
Proverb, (Latin)

We can live without our friends, but not without our neighbours.
Proverb

We can shape coat and sark for them, but we cannot shape their weird.
Proverb

We can study until old age and still not finish.
Proverb, (Chinese)

We cannot all be Pope of Rome.
Proverb, (German)

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Proverb

We conquer and are conquered in our turn.
Proverb, (Latin)

We covet not that of the existence of which we are ignorant.
Proverb, (Latin)

We decide our affairs, then we rest them with God.
Proverb, (Jabo)

We do in haste what we repent at leisure.
Proverb, (German)

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Proverb, (Haida)

We do not know what is good until we have lost it.
Proverb, (Spanish)

We do not walk on our legs, but on our will.
Proverb, (Sufi)

We don't kill a pig every day.
Proverb

We easily believe that which we hope for.
Proverb, (Latin)

We easily give advice to others.
Proverb, (Latin)

We expiate in old age the follies of our youth.
Proverb, (Latin)

We find much ingratitude, and create more.
Proverb, (Latin)

We forget even incense in easy times; come hard times, we embrace the Buddha's feet.
Proverb, (Chinese)

We give and take in turn.
Proverb, (Latin)

We give to the rich, and take from the poor.
Proverb, (German)

We hang little thieves, and let great ones escape.
Proverb, (Dutch)

We hang little thieves, and take off our hats to great ones.
Proverb, (German)

We hate the man whom we have wronged.
Proverb, (Latin)

We hate whom we have injured.
Proverb, (Latin)

We have all been fools in our time.
Proverb, (Latin)

We have no son, and yet are giving him a name.
Proverb, (Spanish)

We have not inherited this land from our ancestors; rather we have borrowed it from our children.
Proverb, (Kenyan)

We have not saddled and yet we are riding.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

We have not yet saddled, and are already mounted.
Proverb, (Spanish)

We judge of the present from the past. [The boy and the wolf.]
Proverb, (Latin)

We keep an eye on the scorpion and the serpent, but we do not watch out for the millipede.
Proverb, (Sicilian)

We knock in jest, and it is opened in earnest.
Proverb, (German)

We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.
Proverb, (French)

We know what we have, but not what we shall get.
Proverb, (German)

We learn by teaching.
Proverb, (Italian)

We learn little from victory, much from defeat.
Proverb, (Japanese)

We learn the value of things more in their loss than in their enjoyment.
Proverb, (Latin)

We leave more to do when we die, than we have done.
Proverb

We lessen our wants by lessening our desires.
Proverb

We live more by fashion than common sense.
Proverb, (Latin)

We lose the certain things, while we seek the uncertain ones.
Proverb, (Latin)

We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
Proverb, (American)

We must bear our cross with patience, said the man when he took his wife on his back.
Proverb, (Danish)

We must eat a peck of dirt before we die.
Proverb

We must eat and drink though every tree were a gallows.
Proverb, (German)

We must have reasons for speech but we need none for silence.
Proverb, (French)

We must learn to walk before we can run.
Proverb

We must live as we can, not as we would wish.
Proverb, (Latin)

We must live by the quick, not by the dead.
Proverb

We must not expect everything, everywhere, and from everybody.
Proverb, (Latin)

We must not lie down and cry, God help us.
Proverb

We must sow even after a bad harvest.
Proverb, (Danish)

We must suffer much, or die young.
Proverb, (Danish)

We need not friends if Providence smiles on us.
Proverb, (Latin)

We never find that a fox dies in the dirt of his own ditch.
Proverb

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Proverb, (French)

We never miss the water till the well runs dry.
Proverb

We never profit by the gifts of the wicked.
Proverb, (Latin)

We pardon faults in youth.
Proverb, (Latin)

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.
Proverb

We perish by permitted things.
Proverb, (Latin)

We receive nothing with so much reluctance as advice.
Proverb, (Latin)

We see not what sits on our shoulder.
Proverb

We shall lie all alike in our graves.
Proverb

We shall never be younger.
Proverb

We shall see what we shall see.
Proverb

We shall see, as the blind man said.
Proverb, (French)

We should eat to live, not live to eat.
Proverb, (Latin)

We should trust more to our eyesight than to our ears.
Proverb, (Latin)

We soon believe what we desire.
Proverb, (Latin)

We sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind.
Proverb, (Latin)

We start as fools and become wise through experience.
Proverb, (African)

We traded in shrouds; people stopped dying.
Proverb, (Lebanese)

We trust what we see rather than what we hear.
Proverb, (Latin)

We were born to die anyhow.
Proverb, (Mexican)

We will be grateful to flowers only if they have born fruits.
Proverb, (Zimbabwean)

We will be known by the tracks we leave behind.
Proverb, (Dakotan)

We will fly that hawk when his pinions are grown.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

We will ride that colt when he is grown to wear a saddle.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Proverb

We'll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.
Proverb, (Irish)

We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
Proverb, (Japanese)

We've arrived, and to prove it we're here.
Proverb

We, too, have hurled javelins.
[Lat., Et nos quoque tela sparsimus.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Weak food best fits weak stomachs.
Proverb

Weak men had need be witty.
Proverb

Weal and woman never pan.
Proverb

Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world.
Proverb, (Italian)

Wealth is best known by want.
Proverb

Wealth is both an enemy and a friend.
Proverb, (Nepal)

Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Wealth is like rheum, it falls on the weakest parts.
Proverb

Wealth is not his who makes it, but his who enjoys it.
Proverb, (Italian)

Wealth is protected and poverty is assisted by concord.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wealth lightens not the heart and care of man.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wealth makes wit waver.
Proverb

Wealth makes worship.
Proverb

Wealth not acquired by our own labours, but inherited.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wealth, like an index, reveals the character of men.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wear no sword at kinsman's board.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

Wear not boots too big for your feet.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wear not out your welcome.
Proverb

Weather, wind, women, and fortune change like the moon.
Proverb, (French)

Weaving a net is better than praying for fish at the edge of the water.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Wedlock is a padlock.
Proverb

Wedlock rides in the saddle and repentance on the crupper.
Proverb, (French)

Weeds never die out.
Proverb, (Danish)

Weeds never die.
Proverb, (German)

Weeds want no sowing.
Proverb

Weeping makes the heart grow lighter.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Weigh right, and sell dear.
Proverb

Weight and measure save a man toil.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Weight and measure take away strife.
Proverb

Weighty work must be done with few words.
Proverb, (Danish)

Welcome death, quoth the rat, when the trap fell.
Proverb

Welcome is the best cheer.
Proverb, (Greek)

Welcome, misfortune, if you come alone.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Well begun is half done.
Proverb,
(Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)

Well done is half done.
Proverb, (Latin)

Well fed but ill taught.
Proverb, (French)

Well may he smell fire whose gown burns.
Proverb

Well to work and make a fire,
It doth care and skill require.
Proverb

Well-done outlives death.
Proverb, (German)

Well-regulated charity begins with one's self.
Proverb, (French)

Went in one ear and out the other.
Proverb

Were a woman rules the house, the devil is serving-man.
Proverb, (German)

Were every one to sweep before his own house, every street would be clean.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Were fools silent they would pass for wise.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Were he to throw a groat on the roof, it would come down a dollar.
Proverb, (German)

Were I a hatter, men would come into the world without heads.
Proverb, (German)

Were if not for "if" and "but," we should all be rich for ever.
Proverb, (French)

Were it a wolf it would spring at your throat.
Proverb, (French)

Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a Frenchman to accept the challenge.
Proverb, (French)

Were the sky to fall, not an earthen pot would be left whole.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Were you at the wedding, Molly? No, mother, but the bride was very fine.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What a man suffers is the punishment of his tongue.
Proverb, (Turkish)

What a monk thinks he dares to do.
Proverb, (French)

What a neighbor gets is not lost.
Proverb

What a story these old walls could tell.
Proverb, (American)

What a woman wills God wills.
Proverb, (French, Spanish)

What belongs to the ravens is never drowned.
Proverb, (German)

What bird so white as mine? says the crow.
Proverb

What blossoms beautifully, withers fast.
Proverb

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.
Proverb, (Swedish)

What can you expect from a hog but a grunt.
Proverb

What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?
Proverb

What can't be alter'd must be borne, not blamed.
Proverb

What can't be cured, must be endured.
Proverb, (German, Portuguese)

What children hear their parents say by the fireside they repeat in the highway.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What Christ does not take the exchequer takes.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What comes from the fife goes back to the drum.
Proverb, (French)

What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
Proverb, (German)

What comes seldom, comes sharp.
Proverb, (German)

What costs little is little esteemed.
Proverb, (Italian)

What costs nothing is worth nothing.
Proverb, (Dutch)

What cures Sancho makes Martha sick.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What does not happen in a year may happen in a moment.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What does not poison, fattens.
Proverb, (Italian)

What does the moon care if the dogs bay at her?
Proverb, (German)

What does the tortoise care for flies?
Proverb, (Latin)

What everybody says must be true.
Proverb

What fills the eye fills the heart.
Proverb, (Irish)

What flares up fast, extinguishes soon.
Proverb, (Turkish)

What force cannot do ingenuity may.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What God haith joined together, let no man put asunder.
Proverb, (German)

What God will no frost can kill.
Proverb

What goes around, comes around.
Proverb

What goes down usually comes up.
Proverb

What goes up must come down.
Proverb

What greater crime than loss of time?
Proverb

What harm is there in a good word? It costs nothing.
Proverb, (German)

What harm is there in making a trial?
Proverb, (Latin)

What has been lost is safe.
[Lat., Quae amissa, salva.]
Proverb, (Latin)

What has benefited one has destroyed others.
Proverb, (Latin)

What has horns will gore.
Proverb, (Dutch)

What has not been, may be.
Proverb, (Italian)

What has this to do with the matter?
Proverb, (Latin)

What I do against my will cannot be said to be my own act.
Proverb, (Latin)

What I see with my eyes I can guess with my fingers.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What is an exalted position to a low fellow but a golden ring in a swine's snout?
Proverb, (Latin)

What is another's always pines for its master.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What is another's always sighs for its master.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

What is bad for one is good for another.
Proverb, (French)

What is bolder than a miller's neckcloth, which takes a thief by the throat every morning?
Proverb, (German)

What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
Proverb, (Italian, Portuguese)

What is bred in the bone won't out of the flesh.
Proverb, (Dutch)

What is brought by the wind will be carried away by the wind.
Proverb, (Persian)

What is done by night appears by day.
Proverb

What is done cannot be undone.
Proverb, (Danish, Italian)

What is done under the four moons need never be recalled nor regretted.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

What is done, is done for this time.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What is enough was never little.
Proverb, (French)

What is got by begging is dearly bought.
Proverb, (Danish)

What is gotten over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
Proverb

What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.
Proverb, (Irish)

What is in use, wants no excuse.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What is learned in the cradle lasts till the grave.
Proverb, (French)

What is learned in youth is carved in stone.
Proverb, (Arabic)

What is learnt in the cradle lasts to the grave.
Proverb

What is lighter than a feather? Dust.
What lighter than dust? Wind.
What lighter than the wind? A harlot.
What lighter than a harlot? Nothing.
Proverb, (Latin)

What is long spoken of happens at last.
Proverb, (Dutch)

What is lost in the fire must be sought in the ashes.
Proverb, (Dutch)

What is lost in the hundred will be found in the shire.
Proverb

What is marriage, mother? Daughter, it is spinning, bearing children, and weeping.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

What is mine is my own; my brother Juan's is his and mine.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What is much desired is not believed when it comes.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What is new cannot be true.
Proverb

What is new is always fine.
Proverb, (French)

What is new is esteemed, but what is in every day use ceases to afford interest.
Proverb, (Latin)

What is new is not true, what is true is not new.
Proverb

What is no sin, is no shame.
Proverb, (German)

What is not taken by the Church is taken by the Exchequer.
Proverb, (German)

What is not understood [explained] by what is less understood. [To make confusion still more confounded.]
Proverb, (Latin)

What is permitted us we least desire.
Proverb, (Latin)

What is play to the cat is death to the mouse.
Proverb, (Danish)

What is play to the strong is death to the weak.
Proverb, (Danish)

What is right for the one is reasonable for the other.
Proverb, (German)

What is said is said, and no sponge can wipe it out.
Proverb, (German)

What is said over the dead lion's body could not be said to him alive.
Proverb, (Congolese)

What is said when drunk has been thought out beforehand.
Proverb, (Flemish)

What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse.
Proverb, (German)

What is sweet in the mouth is not always good in the stomach.
Proverb, (Danish)

What is the good of a sun-dial in the shade?
Proverb

What is the use of running when we are not on the right road?
Proverb, (German)

What is there that love will not achieve?
Proverb, (Latin)

What is too high, that let fly.
Proverb, (German)

What is true is not always probable.
Proverb, (French)

What is useful cannot be base.
Proverb, (Latin)

What is viler than to be laughed at?
Proverb, (Latin)

What is whispered in your ear is often heard a hundred miles off.
Proverb, (Chinese)

What is whispered in your ear tell not to your husband.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What is worth doing is worth doing well.
Proverb

What is worth receiving is worth returning.
Proverb, (French)

What is worthwhile must needs be difficult.
Proverb, (Latin)

What is wrong to-day won't be right to-morrow.
Proverb, (Dutch)

What keeps out the cold keeps out the heat.
Proverb, (Italian)

What lay hidden under the snow cometh to light at last.
Proverb, (Dutch)

What limit is there in love?
Proverb, (Latin)

What little Johnny has not learned, big John will not know.
Proverb, (Polish)

What man has done, man can do.
Proverb

What man has made, man can destroy.
Proverb, (German)

What Manchester says today, the rest of England says tomorrow.
Proverb

What Master Jacky does not learn, Mr. John never knows.
Proverb, (German)

What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Proverb, (Scottish)

What much is worth comes from the earth.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What must be, must be.
Proverb

What my neighbour eats does my stomach no good.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What need has a blind man of a looking glass?
Proverb, (Latin)

What one does not bake, another brews.
Proverb, (German)

What one does, one becomes.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What one hopes for is always better than what one has.
Proverb, (Ethiopian)

What one is accustomed to in youth, one does in old age.
Proverb, (German)

What one knows it is useful sometimes to forget.
Proverb, (Latin)

What people in distress most wish for, they most readily believe.
Proverb, (Latin)

What raging rashly is begun,
Challengeth shame before half done.
Proverb

What ripens fast does not last.
Proverb, (German)

What should a cow do with a nutmeg?
Proverb

What signifies the barking of a dog that don't bite?
Proverb, (German)

What smarts teaches.
Proverb, (German)

What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals.
Proverb, (Latin)

What the abbot of Bamba cannot eat he gives away for the good of his soul.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What the child hears at the fireside is soon known at the parish church.
Proverb, (French)

What the child sees, the child does. What the child does, the child is.
Proverb, (Irish)

What the colt learns in youth his continues in old age.
Proverb, (French)

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
Proverb

What the eye rarely sees, the heart soon despises.
Proverb, (Latin)

What the eye sees not the heart rues not.
Proverb, (French, German, Italian)

What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.
Proverb, (Chinese, Dutch)

What the eyes see, the heart believes.
Proverb, (German)

What the fool does at last the wise man does at first.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

What the fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.
Proverb

What the gauntlet wins the gorget consumes.
Proverb, (French)

What the gods make, the planet can find use for.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks.
Proverb, (Romanian)

What the lion cannot, the fox can.
Proverb, (German)

What the peacock has too little on his head, he has too much on his tail.
Proverb, (German)

What the people believe is true.
Proverb, (Native American Anishinabe)

What the she-wolf does (or brings forth) pleases the he-wolf.
Proverb, (French, Spanish)

What the sober man has in his heart, the drunkard has on his lips.
Proverb, (Latin, Danish)

What the sober man keeps in his heart, is on the tongue of the drunkard.
Proverb, (French)

What the sober man thinks the drunkard tells.
Proverb, (Dutch, French)

What the soldier said isn't evidence.
Proverb

What the young one begs for, the grown-up throws away.
Proverb, (Russian)

What though his hair be gray, his mind is no less vigorous than ever.
Proverb, (Latin)

What three know will soon be known to thirty.
Proverb, (German)

What three know, everybody knows.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What was hard to bear is sweet to remember.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

What was hard to endure is sweet to recall.
Proverb, (French)

What was is no more, what if is just if.
Proverb, (Maltese)

What water gives, water takes away.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

What we possess is always beautiful.
Proverb, (Latin)

What we want in hay we make up in straw.
Proverb, (German)

What will be, will be.
Proverb, (Italian)

What will not performance achieve?
Proverb, (Latin)

What you are doing do thoroughly.
Proverb, (Latin, French)

What you can't get is just what suits you.
Proverb, (French)

What you can't have, abuse.
Proverb, (Italian)

What you cannot avoid, welcome.
Proverb, (Chinese)

What you dislike for yourself do not like for me.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What you do yourself is well done.
Proverb, (Danish)

What you do, do quickly.
Proverb, (German)

What you don't know can't hurt you.
Proverb

What you don't know you can always learn.
Proverb

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Proverb, (Jewish)

What you give away you keep.
Proverb, (Kurdish)

What you give for the cause of charity in health is gold; what you give in sickness is silver; what you give after death is lead.
Proverb, (Jewish)

What you give you get, ten times over.
Proverb, (Yoruba)

What you give, is written in sand; what you take, with an iron hand.
Proverb, (German)

What you have, hold.
Proverb

What you learn to your cost you remember long.
Proverb, (Danish)

What you lend to a friend, an enemy sues for.
Proverb, (German)

What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
Proverb

What you save is, later, like something found.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

What you see in yourself is what you see in the world.
Proverb, (Afghan)

What you spend, you have.
Proverb

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
Proverb, (Latin)

What you've never had you never miss.
Proverb

What youth learns, age does not forget.
Proverb, (Danish)

What! give the lettuce in charge to the geese!
Proverb

What! keep a dog and bark myself?
Proverb, (German)

What! you a hare, and ask for hare-pie!
Proverb, (Latin)

What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.
Proverb

What's bred in the bone will never out of the flesh.
Proverb

What's done can't be mended.
Proverb

What's done is done.
Proverb

What's everybody's business is nobody's business.
Proverb, (Spanish)

What's everybody's work is nobody's work.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Proverb, (Irish)

What's good is often forgotten; what's bad is often hidden.
Proverb, (Norwegian)

What's of no use is too dear at a gift.
Proverb, (German)

What's one man's meat's another man's poison.
Proverb

What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Proverb

What's sport to you is death to us. [Fable of Boys and Frogs.]
Proverb

What's the good of a sun-dial in the shade?
Proverb

What's the use of putting honey in an ass's mouth.
Proverb, (German)

What's yours is mine, and what's mine's my own.
Proverb

Whatever is given to the poor, is laid out of the reach of fortune.
Proverb

Whatever is in the heart will come up to the tongue.
Proverb, (Persian)

Whatever is to be a hook, bends early.
Proverb, (German)

Whatever is to be a nettle, burns early.
Proverb, (German)

Whatever is written on the forehead is always seen.
Proverb, (Palestinian)

Whatever man had done, man may do.
Proverb

Whatever way you take there is a league of bad road.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Whatever you do, do with all your might.
Proverb, (Latin)

Whatever you sow, you reap.
Proverb, (Persian)

Whatever you undertake let it be proportioned to your powers.
Proverb, (Latin)

Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill diet was the mother.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward.
Proverb, (Swedish)

When a camel is at the foot of a mountain then judge of his height.
Proverb, (Hindu)

When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.
Proverb, (Kurdish)

When a couple are newly married, the first month is honeymoon, or smick smack: the second is, hither and thither: the third is thwick thwack: the fourth, the devil take them that brought thee and I together.
Proverb

When a cow is lost it is something to recover its tail, were it only to make a handle for one's door.
Proverb, (French)

When a dog runs away, hit him! hit him!
Proverb, (Italian)

When a door opens not to your knock, consider your reputation.
Proverb, (Arabic)

When a dove begins to associate with crows its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.
Proverb, (German)

When a fool has made up his mind the market has gone by.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When a fool is cursed, he thinks he is being praised.
Proverb, (African)

When a fox is in his hole, the smoke fetches him out.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When a good offer comes for your daughter, don't wait till her father returns from market.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When a goose dances, and a fool versifies, there is sport.
Proverb

When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful.
Proverb, (African)

When a large vessel has opened a way it is easy for a small one to follow.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When a man begins to reason, he ceases to feel.
Proverb, (French)

When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself.
Proverb, (Italian)

When a man is coming toward you, you need not say, "Come here."
Proverb, (Ghanaian)

When a man is down, everybody runs over him.
Proverb, (German)

When a man is in a sack, he must get out at the mouth or at the bottom.
Proverb, (Danish)

When a man is not liked, whatever he doth is amiss.
Proverb

When a man is not used to breeches the seams gall him.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When a man is rich, he begins to save.
Proverb, (German)

When a man is wealthy he may wear an old cloth.
Proverb, (Ghanaian)

When a man's coat is threadbare, it is easy to pick a hole in it.
Proverb

When a man's friend marries, all is over between them.
Proverb, (French)

When a man's mode of life is contemptible, it follows that his preaching is treated with contempt.
Proverb, (Latin)

When a miser dies, the heirs feel as happy as when they kill a pig.
Proverb, (Maltese)

When a mouse has fallen into a meal sack, he thinks he is the miller himself.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When a mouse makes fun of a cat, there is a hole.
Proverb, (Senegalese)

When a musician hath forgotten his note,
He makes as though a crumb stuck in his throat.
Proverb

When a needle falls into a deep well, many people will look into the well, but few will be ready to go down after it.
Proverb, (African)

When a peasant gets rich, he knows neither relations nor friends.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
Proverb, (English)

When a thief kisses you, count your teeth.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

When a thing is done, advice comes too late.
Proverb, (French, Romanian)

When a thing is done, make the best of it.
Proverb, (German)

When a tree is falling, every one cries, down with it.
Proverb, (Italian)

When a twig grows hard it is difficult to twist it. Every beginning is weak.
Proverb, (Irish)

When a woman is openly bad she is then at her best.
[Lat., Aperte mala cum est mulier, tum demum est bona.]
Proverb

When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
Proverb, (Dutch)

When Adam delved, and Eve span, where was then the gentleman?
Proverb, (English, German)

When ale is in, wit is out.
Proverb

When all candles be out, all cats be gray.
Proverb

When all fruit fails, welcome haws.
Proverb

When all men say you are an ass, it is high time to bray.
Proverb

When all men speak, no man hears.
Proverb

When all other sins are old avarice is still young.
Proverb, (French)

When all sins grow old covetousness is young.
Proverb

When all sins grow old, covetousness is young.
Proverb

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Proverb

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
Proverb, (Hindu)

When an observation by joke is true, it is out of place and ill-natured.
Proverb, (Latin)

When an old dog barks, look out.
Proverb, (Latin, Dutch, German)

When an old man cannot drink, prepare his grave.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When anger blinds the eyes, truth disappears.
Proverb, (Danish)

When anger comes, wisdom goes.
Proverb, (Hindi)

When apes climb high, they show their naked rumps.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When April blows his horn,
It's good both for hay and corn.
Proverb

When at Rome do as the Romans do.
Proverb, (Latin)

When bale is hext, boot is next.
Proverb

When blind leads the blind, both fall into the ditch.
Proverb, (German)

When bredin split, enemies enter the gap.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

When bulls fight, woe to the frogs.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

When Candlemas day is come and gone,
The snow lies on a hot stone.
Proverb

When cat and mouse agree, the farmer has no chance.
Proverb, (Danish)

When cats are mousing they don't mew.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When caught by the tempest, whatever it be,
If it lightens and thunders beware of a tree.
Proverb

When Christ was along, the devil tempted him.
Proverb, (German)

When David grew old he sang pious psalms.
Proverb, (German)

When dirt comes to honour it know not what to be.
Proverb, (Danish)

When drink enters, wisdom departs.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When drink is in, wit is out.
Proverb

When eating a fruit, think of the person who planted the tree.
Proverb, (Vietnamese)

When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When elephant steps on a trap, no more trap.
Proverb, (African)

When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
Proverb, (African)

When every man gets his own the devil gets nothing.
Proverb, (Danish)

When every one minds his own business the work is done.
Proverb, (Danish)

When every one says you are an ass, bray.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When every one sees that you are a pig, why don't you go into the sty?
Proverb, (Dutch)

When everybody says you are drunk, go to sleep.
Proverb, (Italian)

When fire and water are at war, it is the fire that loses.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When flatterers meet the devil goes to dinner.
Proverb

When flies swarm in March, sheep come to their death.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When fools go to market the huckster gets money.
Proverb, (Danish)

When fools go to market, pedlars make money.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When fortune calls, offer her a chair.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

When fortune comes, open your doors.
Proverb, (Italian)

When fortune deserts us, our friends are nowhere.
Proverb, (Latin)

When fortune knocks, open the door.
Proverb, (German)

When fortune's chariot rolls easily, envy and shame cling to the wheels.
Proverb, (Danish)

When friends ask, there is no tomorrow.
Proverb

When glory comes memory departs.
Proverb, (French)

When gnats swarm in January, the peasant becomes a beggar.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When God gives light he gives it for all.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When God means to punish a nation, He deprives its rulers of wisdom.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)

When God pleases, it rains in fair weather.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When God pleases, it rains with every wind.
Proverb, (Dutch, Spanish)

When God says To-day, the devil says To-morrow.
Proverb, (German)

When God sends flour the devil carries off the sack.
Proverb, (French)

When God will not, the saints cannot.
Proverb, (Dutch, Italian, Spanish)

When gold speaks every tongue is silent.
Proverb, (Italian)

When good cheer is lacking, our friends will be packing.
Proverb

When goods increase the body decreases.
Proverb, (French)

When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war.
Proverb

When had comes, have is too late.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When he was born, Solomon passed by his door, and could not go in.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When his head is broken he puts on his helmet.
Proverb, (Italian)

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
Proverb

When hunger is appeased we can preach the merits of fasting.
Proverb, (Latin)

When I did well, I heard it never; when I did ill, I heard it ever.
Proverb

When I had money, everyone called me brother.
Proverb, (Polish)

When I have money in my purse, I have food in my mouth.
Proverb, (Danish)

When I lent I was a friend,
When I asked I was unkind.
Proverb

When I was born I wept, and every day brings a reason why.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When I'm dead, everybody's dead, and the pig too.
Proverb, (Italian)

When ill-luck falls asleep let nobody wake her.
Proverb

When ill-luck sleeps, let no one wake her.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When in doubt, do nowt.
Proverb

When in doubt, Gallop!
Proverb, (French Foreign Legion)

When in doubt, leave it out.
Proverb

When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Proverb

When industry goes out of the door, poverty comes in at the window.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When it blows, the trees shake.
Proverb, (German)

When it is God's will to plague a man, a mouse can bite him to death.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When it pours upon the parson, it drops upon the clerk.
Proverb, (Danish)

When it rains and the sun shines at the same time, the devil is beating his wife.
Proverb, (French)

When it rains in August, it rains honey and wine.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When it rains in February, it will be temperate all the year.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When it rains porridge the beggar has no spoon.
Proverb, (Danish)

When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.
Proverb, (Italian)

When joy is in the parlour, sorrow is in the passage.
Proverb, (Danish)

When lazy horses begin to start, old women to dance, and white clouds to rain, there is no stopping them.
Proverb, (Danish)

When love is not madness, it is not love. [Sp., Cuando amor no es locura, no es amor.]
Proverb, (Spanish)

When love puts in, friendship is gone.
Proverb

When luck joins in the game, cleverness scores double.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

When many shepherds tend the sheep, they but so much the longer sleep.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When many strike on an anvil, they must strike by measure.
Proverb

When misery is highest help is nighest.
Proverb

When misfortune comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
Proverb, (German)

When misfortune sleeps, let no one wake her.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When mistrust enters, love departs.
Proverb, (Danish)

When money speaks the truth is silent.
Proverb, (Russian)

When money talks, the truth is silent.
Proverb, (Russian)

When need is greatest, help is nearest.
Proverb, (German)

When need is highest, help is nighest.
Proverb

When neighbours quarrel, lookers-on are more apt to add fuel than water.
Proverb, (Danish)

When nought comes to aught, it does not know itself.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When old horses get warm, they are not easily held in.
Proverb, (German)

When once at sea, do not long to be on shore. [Be satisfied with your calling in life.]
Proverb, (Latin)

When one dog barks, another will follow suit.
Proverb, (Latin)

When one door shuts, a hundred open.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When one door shuts, another opens.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When one foot stumbles, the other is near falling.
Proverb, (Danish)

When one goose drinks, all drink.
Proverb, (German)

When one has not what one likes, one must like what one has.
Proverb, (French)

When one is dead, it is for a long while.
Proverb, (French)

When one is in love, a cliff becomes a meadow.
Proverb, (Ethiopian)

When one is prepared, difficulties do not come.
Proverb

When one must, one can.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

When one sheep is over the dam, the rest follow.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When one shuts one eye, one does not hear everything.
Proverb, (Swiss)

When one wave leaves, another succeeds.
Proverb, (Latin)

When one will not, two cannot quarrel.
Proverb

When one wolf eats another, thee is nothing to eat in the wood.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When our daughter is married sons-in-law are plenty.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When our enemy flies, build him a golden bridge.
Proverb

When Oxford draws knife, England's soon at strife.
Proverb

When passion entereth at the fore-gate wisdom goes out at the postern.
Proverb

When pleasure interferes with business, give up business.
Proverb, (American)

When poor, liberal; when rich, stingy.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.
Proverb, (German)

When poverty comes in at the door, love jumps out at the window.
Proverb

When prosperity smiles, beware of its guiles.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When pumpkins are watered, brinjals [small plants] also get watered.
Proverb, (Kashmiri)

When rogues fallout, honest men come by their own.
Proverb

When rogues fallout, many a secret is revealed.
Proverb, (Latin)

When rogues go in procession the devil carries the cross.
Proverb, (Italian)

When round the moon there is a brugh,
The weather will be cold and rough.
Proverb

When shepherds quarrel, the wolf has a winning game.
Proverb, (German)

When silent men speak they speak to the purpose.
Proverb

When sorrow is asleep wake it not.
Proverb

When spherical bodies can unite and embrace, then there will be friendship amongst the avaricious.
Proverb, (Latin)

When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
Proverb, (Ethiopian)

When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion.
Proverb, (Ethiopian)

When the angels present themselves, the devils abscond.
Proverb, (Egyptian)

When the ass is too happy he begins dancing on the ice.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the battle is over you make your appearance.
Proverb, (Latin)

When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.
Proverb, (Congolese)

When the bee sucks, it makes honey, when the spider, poison.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the beer goes in the wits go out.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the belly is full the mind is amongst the maids.
Proverb

When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest.
Proverb

When the big tree falls, the goat eats its leaves.
Proverb, (African)

When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Proverb

When the blind man carries the banner, woe to those who follow.
Proverb, (French)

When the blind man carries the lame man, both go forward.
Proverb, (Swedish)

When the cage is ready the bird is flown.
Proverb, (French)

When the calf is drowned they cover the well.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the calf is stolen, the peasant mends the stall.
Proverb, (German)

When the cat and mouse agree, the grocer is ruined.
Proverb, (Persian)

When the cat is away the mice will play.
Proverb

When the cat is gone, the mice come out to stretch.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When the cat sleeps, the mice play.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the cat winketh, little wots the mouse what the cat thinketh.
Proverb

When the cat's away the mice dance.
Proverb, (Italian)

When the cat's away the mice will play.
Proverb,
(Danish, English, French, German, Portuguese)

When the cat's away the rats dance.
Proverb, (Italian)

When the cat's away the rats will play.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the cat's away, it is jubilee with the mice.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the cat's stomach is full, the rat's back is bitter.
Proverb, (Haitian)

When the cats fall asleep, the mouse rejoices and leaps from his hole.
[Lat., Dum felis dormit, mus gaudet et exsitit antro.]
Proverb

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Proverb

When the child cuts its teeth, death is on the watch.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the child is christened you will have godfathers enough.
Proverb, (French)

When the clouds are upon the hills,
They'll come down by the mills.
Proverb

When the cock is drunk, he forgets about the hawk.
Proverb, (Ghanaian)

When the cook and the steward fall out we hear who stole the butter.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the cook is roasting for the butler, woe to the master's wine-cask.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the cord is tightest it is nearest snapping.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the corn is in the shock,
The fish are on the rock.
Proverb

When the corsair promises masses and candles, it goes ill with the galley.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the crane attempts to dance with the house she gets broken bones.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the cuckoo comes she eats up all the dirt.
Proverb

When the cuckoo comes to the bare thorn,
Sell your cow and buy your corn:
But when she comes to the full bit,
Sell your corn and buy your sheep.
Proverb

When the cup is full, carry it even.
Proverb, (Scottish)

When the devil finds the door shut he goes away.
Proverb, (French, Spanish)

When the devil gets into the church he seats himself on the altar.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the devil grows old he turns himself hermit.
Proverb, (French)

When the devil is old he turns hermit.
Proverb, (Italian)

When the devil says his paternosters he means to cheat you.
Proverb, (French)

When the devil says his prayers he wants to cheat you.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the Devil was sick the Devil a monk would be,
When the Devil got well, the devil a monk was he.
Proverb

When the dog is awake, the shepherd may sleep.
Proverb, (German)

When the dog is down, every one is ready to bite him.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the dog is drowning every one brings him water.
Proverb, (French)

When the door is low one must stoop.
Proverb, (French)

When the fern is as high as a ladle,
You may sleep as long as you are able.
Proverb

When the fields yield not, the saints have not.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the flatterer pipes, the devil dances.
Proverb

When the fool has made up his mind the market is over.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the fox cannot reach the grapes he says they are not ripe.
Proverb, (Greek)

When the fox licks his paw let the farmer look after his geese.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the fox preaches to the goose her neck is in danger.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the fox preaches, beware the geese.
Proverb

When the fox preaches, look to the geese.
Proverb, (German)

When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens.
Proverb, (Italian)

When the fox wants to catch geese, he wags his tail.
Proverb, (German)

When the Frenchman sleeps the devil rocks him.
Proverb, (French)

When the friar's beaten, then comes James.
Proverb

When the furze is in bloom, my love's in tune.
Proverb

When the game is most thriving it is time to leave off.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Proverb

When the goodman is from home, the goodwife's table is soon spread.
Proverb

When the goose trusts the fox then woe to her neck.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the gorse is out of bloom, kissing's out of fashion.
Proverb

When the guest is in most favour, he will do well to quit.
Proverb, (German)

When the hand ceases to scatter, the heart ceases to pray.
Proverb, (Irish)

When the hand is clean,
It needs no screen.
Proverb

When the head aches all the limbs ache.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the head aches, all the members suffer with it.
Proverb, (Latin)

When the head acheth, all the body is the worse.
Proverb, (Latin)

When the head is sick the whole body is sick.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the helm is gone the ship will soon be wrecked.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the hen had laid an egg she cackles.
Proverb, (German)

When the horse dies, dismount.
Proverb

When the host smiles most blandly he has an eye to the guest's purse.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the husband drinks to the wife, all would be well; when the wife drinks to the husband, all is well.
Proverb

When the husband earns well the wife spins well.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the hyena drinks, the dog can only look on.
Proverb, (Hausa)

When the iron is hot, then is the time to strike.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the jest is at its best, 'twill be well to let it rest.
Proverb, (German)

When the journey is finished to lay up provisions for the journey. [Avaricious old age.]
Proverb, (Latin)

When the light is crooked, the shadow is crooked.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

When the lion is dead the hares jump upon his carcase.
Proverb, (Italian)

When the lion's skin falls short, piece it out with that of the fox.
Proverb, (Italian)

When the lords come out of the council-house, they are wiser than when they went in.
Proverb, (German)

When the manger is empty the horses fight.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the mantis hunts the locust, he forgets the shrike that's hunting him.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When the master is absent, the frogs hop into the house.
Proverb, (Bugandan)

When the measure is full, it runs over.
Proverb, (German)

When the mice laugh at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
Proverb, (Nigerian)

When the millers are making an uproar, do you tie up your sacks.
Proverb, (Italian)

When the mist comes from the hill,
Then good weather it doth spill;
When the mist comes from the sea,
Then good weather it will be.
Proverb

When the moon's in the full, then wit's in the wane.
Proverb

When the mouse has had enough the meal is bitter.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the mouse has had its fill, the meal turns bitter.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.
Proverb, (Nigerian)

When the next house is on fire, 'tis high time to look to your own.
Proverb

When the night's darkest the dawn is nearest.
Proverb

When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak.
Proverb

When the old dog barks, he gives counsel.
Proverb, (Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish)

When the ox falls, there are many that will help to kill him.
Proverb

When the pear is ripe, it falls.
Proverb, (German, Italian)

When the pig has had a bellyful it upsets the trough.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the pirate prays, there is great danger.
Proverb

When the pot boils over it cooleth itself.
Proverb

When the prior plays cards, what will the monks do?
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the rabbit has escaped, comes advice.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the river makes no noise, it is either dried up or much swollen.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the rooks are silent the swans begin to sing.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the root is worthless, so is the tree.
Proverb, (German)

When the sack is full, it pricks up its ears.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)

When the sand doth feed the clay.
England woe and welladay!
When the clay doth feed the sand,
Then it is well with England.
Proverb

When the sea turned into honey, the poor man lost his spoon.
Proverb, (Bulgarian)

When the shepherd strays, the sheep stray.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the ship has sunk everyone knows how she might have been saved.
Proverb, (Italian)

When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Proverb, (Irish)

When the soul hungers, even bitter things taste sweet.
Proverb, (Latin)

When the Spaniard sings, he is either mad or has no money.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the spleen increases, the body diminishes.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the steed is stolen, you shut the stable door.
Proverb

When the stomach is full the heart is glad.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the summer is winter, and the winter is summer, it is a sorry year.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When the sun is highest he casts the least shadow.
Proverb

When the sun sets bright and clear,
An easterly wind you need not fear.
Proverb

When the sun sets in a bank,
A westerly wind we shall not want.
Proverb

When the sun shines on thee, thou needest not care for the moon.
Proverb, (Italian)

When the tale of bricks is doubled, then comes Moses.
Proverb, (German)

When the tale of bricks is doubled, then Moses makes his appearance.
Proverb, (Latin)

When the tiger kills, the jackal profits.
Proverb, (Afghan)

When the time comes, even a rat becomes a tiger.
Proverb, (Japanese)

When the tree dies, the grass underneath withers.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When the tree falls every one runs to cut boughs.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the tree falls every one runs to gather sticks.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the tree falls, any child can climb it.
Proverb, (Vietnamese)

When the tree falls, the shadow flies.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood.
Proverb, (Italian)

When the tree is down everybody runs to the branches.
Proverb, (French)

When the tree is fallen every one runs to it with his axe.
Proverb, (Latin)

When the tree is fallen, every one goeth to it with his hatchet.
Proverb

When the tree waves, wind is stirring.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When the waggon is tilting everybody gives it a shove.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the war is over then comes help.
Proverb, (Latin)

When the will is prompt the legs are nimble.
Proverb, (Italian)

When the wind is in the east
It's good for neither man nor beast.
Proverb

When the wind is in the east, 'tis neither good for man nor beast.
Proverb

When the wind is in the north
The skilful fisher goes not forth.
Proverb

When the wind is in the south
It blows the bait in the fish's mouth.
Proverb

When the wind is in the west
The weather is at the best.
Proverb

When the wind serves, all aid.
Proverb

When the wine goes in the wit goes out.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the wine is in the man, the wit is in the can.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the wine is in, the wit is out.
Proverb, (Italian, Portuguese)

When the wine runs to waste in the cellar, he mends the cask.
Proverb, (German)

When the wine's in the wit's out.
Proverb, (Italian)

When the wolf grows old the crows ride him.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When the wolf's ears appear, his body is not far off.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the word is in the mouth you must caress the sheath.
Proverb, (Danish)

When the word is out, it belongs to another.
Proverb, (German)

When the words are said, the holy water is made.
Proverb, (French)

When the wound is healed the pain is forgotten.
Proverb, (Danish)

When there are two friends to one purse, one sings, the other weeps.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When there is a fire in the neighbourhood carry water to your own house.
Proverb, (Italian)

When there is little bread at table put plenty on your plate.
Proverb, (Italian)

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
Proverb, (African)

When there is no wind every man is a pilot.
Proverb, (French)

When there is nothing the church loses.
Proverb, (Italian)

When there is room in the heart, there is room in the house.
Proverb, (Danish)

When they give you the calf, be ready with the halter.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When they offer you a ring, hold out your finger.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When thieves fall out the peasant recovers his goods.
Proverb, (Danish)

When thieves fall out the thefts are discovered.
Proverb, (French)

When thieves fall out the thefts come to light.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When thieves fall out, honest men come by their own.
Proverb

When thieves fall out, honest men come to their goods.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When thieves fall out, their knaveries come to light.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

When thine enemy retreateth, make him a golden bridge.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When things are at the worst they begin to mend.
Proverb

When things are at the worst they will mend.
Proverb

When things go well it is easy to advise.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When thou dost hear a toll or knell,
Then think upon thy passing bell.
Proverb

When thou seest thy house in flames, go warm thyself by it.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When thy neighbour's house doth burn, then look to your own.
Proverb

When thy neighbour's house is on fire it's time to look about thee.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When two divorced people marry, four people get into bed.
Proverb, (Jewish)

When two dogs fight for a bone, the third runs away with it.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When two elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.
Proverb, (African)

When two enemies blow one horn, the third will have to suffer for it.
Proverb, (Danish)

When two quarrel both are in the wrong.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When two quarrel, both are to blame.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When Want comes in at the door, Love flies out at the window.
Proverb

When we ask a favour, we say, Madam; when we obtain it, what we please.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When we cannot get what we love, we must love what is within our reach.
Proverb, (French)

When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.
Proverb

When we least expect it, the hare darts out of the ditch.
Proverb, (Dutch)

When we think to catch we are sometimes caught.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When what you want doesn't happen, learn to want what does.
Proverb, (Arabic)

When wine enters modesty departs.
Proverb, (Italian)

When wine is in, wit is out.
Proverb

When wine sinks, words swim.
Proverb

When wisdom fails, luck helps.
Proverb, (Danish)

When wise men play mad pranks they do it with a vengeance.
Proverb, (Italian)

When woman reigns the devil governs.
Proverb, (Italian)

When you are an anvil, bear; when you are a hammer, strike.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When you are at Rome do as Rome does.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When you are at Rome, do as Rome does.
Proverb

When you are on the road speak not ill of your enemy.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When you are well hold yourself so.
Proverb

When you are well off keep as you are.
Proverb, (French)

When you bargain with a fox, beware of tricks.
Proverb, (Latin)

When you bow, bow low.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When you can avoid it, never seek strife.
Proverb, (Latin)

When you can tread on nine daisies at once, spring has come.
Proverb

When you can't get bread, oat-cakes are not amiss.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When you can't get meat, chickens and bacon are good.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When you christen the bairn, you should know what to call it.
Proverb

When you die, your trumpeter will be buried.
Proverb

When you eat new bread, don't drink water.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When you fall into a pit, you either die or get out.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When you go to a strange house knock at the door.
Proverb, (Spanish)

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Proverb, (Czech)

When you go to dance, take heed whom you take by the hand.
Proverb, (Danish)

When you have no choice, mobilize the spirit of courage.
Proverb, (Jewish)

When you have only two dollars left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a rose with the other.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When you have told your cards, you'll find you have gained but little.
Proverb

When you know who his friend is, you know who he is.
Proverb, (African)

When you live next to the cemetery, you cannot weep for everyone.
Proverb

When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.
Proverb, (Russian)

When you pray, move your feet.
Proverb, (African)

When you say one thing, the clever person understands three.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When you see a palm tree, the palm tree has seen you.
Proverb, (African Wolof)

When you see a turtle on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
Proverb

When you see the wolf, do not look for his track.
Proverb, (Italian)

When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top.
Proverb, (German)

When you tell the truth, have one foot in the stirrup.
Proverb, (Turkish)

When you throw dirt, you lose ground.
Proverb, (Texan)

When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When you're thirsty it's too late to think about digging a well.
Proverb, (Japanese)

When your companions get drunk and fight,
Take up your hat, and wish them good night.
Proverb

When your devil was born, mine was going to school.
Proverb, (Italian)

When your horse in on the brink of a precipice, it is too late to pull the reins.
Proverb, (Chinese)

When your son becomes a man, make him your brother.
Proverb, (Arab)

Whenever the water rises, the boat will rise too.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Where a chest lieth open, a righteous man may sin.
Proverb

Where a man feels pain he lays his hand.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Where a man never goes, there his head will never be washed.
Proverb, (Danish)

Where all adulterers to wear grey coats, the cloth would be dear.
Proverb, (German)

Where art is displayed truth does not appear.
Proverb, (Latin)

Where bees are, there is honey.
Proverb

Where coin is not common, common must be scant.
Proverb

Where curiosity is not the purveyor, detraction will soon be starved.
Proverb

Where every one goes, the grass never grows.
Proverb, (German)

Where force prevails, right perishes.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where freedom is, there shall my country be.
Proverb, (Latin)

Where friars abound keep your eyes open.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where friends, there riches.
Proverb, (German, Portuguese)

Where ghosts walk, there is loving or thieving.
Proverb, (German)

Where God bestows an office, he provides brains to fill it.
Proverb, (German)

Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel.
Proverb, (German)

Where God has his church the Devil will have his chapel.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where God hath his church, the devil will have his chapel.
Proverb

Where God helps, nought harms.
Proverb

Where God sends babbies he sends penny loaves.
Proverb

Where gold avails, argument fails.
Proverb, (German)

Where gold chinks, arguments are of no avail.
Proverb, (German)

Where honour ceases, knowledge decreases.
Proverb

Where honour ceaseth, there knowledge decreaseth.
Proverb

Where honour grows a span, folly grows an ell.
Proverb, (German)

Where I make my living, there is my home.
Proverb, (Somalian)

Where it is well with me, there is my country.
Proverb, (Latin)

Where law lacks, honour should eke it out.
Proverb, (Danish)

Where love is there the eye is.
Proverb, (Italian)

Where luck is wanting, diligence is useless.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where MacGregor sits at the head of the table.
Proverb

Where man is not, nature is barren.
Proverb

Where might is master, justice is servant.
Proverb, (German)

Where might is right, right is not might.
Proverb, (German)

Where misfortune befals injuries follow.
Proverb, (French)

Where money and counsel are wanting, it is best not to make war.
Proverb, (Danish)

Where money, there friends.
Proverb, (German)

Where no fault is, there needs no pardon.
Proverb

Where nothing is, a little doth ease.
Proverb

Where nothing is, the king must lose his right.
Proverb

Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Proverb, (English)

Where one door is shut another opens.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where one door shuts another opens.
Proverb

Where poverty comes in at the door, loves flies out at the window.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Where remedies are needed, sighing avails not.
Proverb, (Italian)

Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home.
Proverb

Where shall the ox go and not plough?
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where shall the ox go but he must labour, since he knows how?
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Where shall the ox go but he must labour?
Proverb

Where shall the ox go, and not have to plough?
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Where something is thin, that's where it tears.
Proverb, (Russian)

Where the bee sucks honey the spider sucks poison.
Proverb, (Latin, Dutch)

Where the best wine grows, the worst is drunk.
Proverb, (German)

Where the bird was hatched it haunts.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Where the carcase is, there will the vultures be.
Proverb, (Latin)

Where the carcass is, there shall the eagles be gathered together.
Proverb

Where the carrion is, there the eagles gather.
Proverb, (Danish)

Where the cock is the hen does not crow.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows.
Proverb

Where the devil can't go himself, he sends an old woman.
Proverb, (German)

Where the devil cannot come, he will send.
Proverb, (German)

Where the devil cannot put his head he puts his tail.
Proverb, (Italian)

Where the dike (or dam) is lowest the water first runs over.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Where the goat is tied she must browse.
Proverb, (French)

Where the goat leaps, leaps that which sucks her.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where the heart is past hope, the face is past shame.
Proverb

Where the heart loves, there the legs walk.
Proverb, (Maltese)

Where the hedge is low every one will cross it.
Proverb, (Italian)

Where the hedge is lowest every one goes over.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Where the hedge is lowest men jump over.
Proverb, (French)

Where the hedge is lowest, the devil leaps over.
Proverb, (German)

Where the honey, there the bees.
Proverb, (Latin)

Where the horse lies down, there some hairs will be found.
Proverb

Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good.
Proverb, (French)

Where the lion's skin falls short, borrow of the fox.
Proverb, (German)

Where the love is, thither turns the eye.
Proverb, (Latin)

Where the Pope is there is Rome.
Proverb, (Italian)

Where the pupil is willing; the teachers will appear.
Proverb

Where the river is deepest it makes the least noise.
Proverb, (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)

Where the sea goes let the sands go.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where the ship goes the brig can go.
Proverb, (Italian)

Where the skin of the lion does not suffice, we must join that of the fox.
Proverb, (Italian)

Where the thread is weakest it breaks.
Proverb, (French)

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.
Proverb, (Irish)

Where the wasp has passed the fly sticks fast.
Proverb, (French)

Where the water is shallow no vessel will ride.
Proverb

Where the wolf gets one lamb he looks for another.
Proverb, (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)

Where there are no dogs the fox is a king.
Proverb, (Italian)

Where there are no swamps there are no frogs.
Proverb, (German)

Where there are no tigers, a wildcat is very self-important.
Proverb, (Korean)

Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.
Proverb, (Latin)

Where there are too many cooks the soup will be too salty.
Proverb, (Italian)

Where there are too many workmen, there is little work.
Proverb, (German)

Where there is a sea there are pirates.
Proverb, (Greek)

Where there is content there is abundance.
Proverb, (Latin)

Where there is discipline there is virtue; where there is peace there is plenty.
Proverb, (Danish)

Where there is equality there never can be perfect love.
Proverb, (Italian)

Where there is great love there is great pain.
Proverb, (Italian)

Where there is least heart there is most tongue.
Proverb, (Italian)

Where there is life there is hope.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Where there is little bread, cut first.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Where there is love, there is pain.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where there is no fire, no smoke rises.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Where there is no honour there is no dishonour.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Where there is no sore there needs no plaister.
Proverb, (French)

Where there is no want of will, there will be no want of opportunity.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where there is no wit within no wit will come out.
Proverb, (Danish)

Where there is nothing the king loses his rights.
Proverb, (French)

Where there is nothing, the Emperor loses his right.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)

Where there is shame, there is virtue.
Proverb, (German)

Where there is smoke there is fire.
Proverb

Where there is sugar, there are bound to be ants.
Proverb, (Malay)

Where there is wealth, friends abound.
Proverb, (Latin)

Where there is whispering, there is lying.
Proverb

Where there no fools, there would be no wise men.
Proverb, (German)

Where there's a will there's a way.
Proverb, (Italian, Spanish)

Where there's fire there's smoke.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where there's money, there is the devil; but where there's none, a greater evil.
Proverb, (German)

Where there's muck there's brass.
Proverb

Where there's no fire there's no smoke.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Where there's no good within, no good comes out.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Where there's no jealousy, there's no love.
Proverb, (German)

Where there's no love, all faults are seen.
Proverb, (German)

Where there's no love, there's no honour.
Proverb, (German)

Where there's no might there's no right.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Where there's smoke, there's fire.
Proverb, (American)

Where they eat your meat let them pick the bones.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where two fall out, the third wins.
Proverb, (German)

Where two women rule a hearth-fire, the thatch may burn with the sparks flying.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

Where vain-glory reigns, folly is prime counsellor.
Proverb

Where vice is vengeance follows.
Proverb

Where vice is, vengeance follows.
Proverb

Where villany goes before, vengeance follows after.
Proverb

Where water has been, water will come again.
Proverb, (German)

Where will is right, law is banished.
Proverb, (Danish)

Where wine goes in, modesty goes out.
Proverb, (German)

Where you cannot climb over, you must creep under.
Proverb, (Danish)

Where you father has been with ink, go not you with a bag (i.e. what your father has sold and assigned, think not to recover with a bag of papers. In other words, don't go to law for it.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where you lost your cloak, seek it.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where you smart there I will hit you.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where you tell your secret you surrender your freedom.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Where you think there is bacon, there are not even hooks for it.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Where you were a page, be not an esquire.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Where'er an ass is crown'd to fame, both town and country bear the shame.
Proverb, (German)

Wherein have I erred? What have I done?
Proverb, (Latin)

Wherever a man dwells, he shall be sure to have a thorn-bush near his door.
Proverb

Wherever there is a pretty spot, the devil plants a monastery or a lord.
Proverb, (German)

Wherever there is mischief, there is sure to be a priest and a woman in it.
Proverb, (German)

Wherever you are, do as you see done.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Wherever you go, you can't get rid of yourself.
Proverb, (Polish)

Wherever you may be, do as you see done.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Wherries must not put out to sea.
Proverb

Whether he will or no.
Proverb, (Latin)

Whether it be so or not, husband, put on your hood. (He had told her there was a new law that every man with horns should wear a hood.)
Proverb, (Spanish)

Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.
Proverb, (African)

Whether the pitcher strike the stone, or the stone the pitcher, woe be to the pitcher.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Whether the pitcher strikes the stone, or the stone the pitcher, it is bad for the pitcher.
Proverb

Whether you boil snow or pound it you can have but water of it.
Proverb

Whether you ignore a pig, or worship that pig from afar, to the pig it's all the same.
Proverb

While avoiding the smoke I have fallen into the flame.
Proverb, (Latin)

While between two stools my tail go to the ground.
Proverb

While grass grows the horse starves.
Proverb, (Latin)

While life lasts let us enjoy it.
Proverb, (Latin)

While the dog gnaws the bone, companions would he none.
Proverb, (Latin)

While the dogs yelp, the hare flies to the wood.
Proverb, (Danish)

While the dust is on your feet, sell what you have bought.
Proverb

While the grass grows, the steed starves.
Proverb, (Dutch, German, Italian)

While the grass is growing the mare dies.
Proverb, (Danish)

While the great bells are ringing no one hears the little ones.
Proverb, (Danish)

While the leg warmeth the boot harmeth.
Proverb

While the mouse in the walls may look from afar at a cat, he does well not to go squeaking about it.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

While the pot boils, friendship blooms.
Proverb, (German)

While the tall maid is stooping, the little one hath swept the house.
Proverb, (Italian)

While there is life there is hope.
Proverb, (Latin)

While there's life there's hope.
Proverb, (Italian)

While two dogs are fighting for a bone, a third runs away with it.
Proverb

While we consider when to begin, it becomes too late.
Proverb, (Japanese)

While we discuss matters, the opportunity passes by.
Proverb, (Latin)

While we draw we are drawn. [Mutual attraction.]
Proverb, (Latin)

While we live, let us live.
[Lat., Dum vivimus, vivamus.]
Proverb, (Latin)

While we would catch we are caught.
Proverb, (Latin)

Whilst standing he holds one opinion, whilst sitting another.
Proverb, (Latin)

Whilst the dogs are growling at each other the wolf devours the sheep.
Proverb, (French)

Whilst the nurse suckles, we love her; when she is of no further use, she is forgotten.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Whilst the tall maid is stooping, the little one sweeps the house.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Whilst we drink, prank ourselves, with wenches daily,
Old age upon's at unawares doth sally.
Proverb

White hands are no offence.
Proverb, (Spanish)

White hands cannot hurt.
Proverb, (Spanish)

White meal is not got out of a coal-sack.
Proverb, (French)

White silver draws black lines.
Proverb

Whither goest thou, Misfortune? To where there is more.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Whither goest thou, sorrow? Whither I am used to go.
Proverb, (Spanish)


Whither shall the ox go, where he will not have to plough?
Proverb, (Spanish)

Who accepts from another sells his freedom.
Proverb, (German)

Who accepts nothing has nothing to return.
Proverb, (German)

Who accepts, sells himself.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who aims at things beyond his reach, the greater will be his fall.
Proverb, (Latin)

Who answers for another pays.
Proverb, (French)

Who are ready to believe, are easy to deceive.
Proverb, (German)

Who arrays himself in other men's garments is stripped on the highway.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Who avoids small sins, does not fall into great ones.
Proverb, (German)

Who begins amiss ends amiss.
Proverb, (German)

Who begins too much, accomplishes little.
Proverb, (German)

Who blackens others, does not whiten himself.
Proverb, (German)

Who blows his nose too hard makes it bleed.
Proverb, (French)

Who bows to might loses his right.
Proverb, (German)

Who builds on the mob builds on sand.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who builds upon the people, builds upon sand.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who buys hath need of eyes.
Proverb

Who buys land buys war.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who buys wants a hundred eyes, who sells need have but one.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who can escape envy and blame, that speaks or writes for public fame?
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who can sing so merry a note
As he that cannot change a groat?
Proverb

Who cannot beat the horse let him beat the saddle.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who cannot fight, wins nought by right.
Proverb, (German)

Who cannot sing, may whistle.
Proverb, (German)

Who cannot work out his salvation by heart will not do it by book.
Proverb, (French)

Who carries doubtful people to his house, will doubtless from his carriage something lose.
Proverb, (German)

Who changes country changes luck.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who changes his condition changes fortune.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who chastises his child will be honoured by him, who chastises him not will be shamed.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who chatters to you will chatter of you.
Proverb

Who comes first, grinds first.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)

Who comes seldom, is welcome.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who comes unbidden departs unthanked.
Proverb, (German)

Who could live without hope?
Proverb, (French)

Who dangles after the great is the last at table and the first to be cuffed.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceive me twice, shame on me.
Proverb, (German)

Who demands justice, must administer justice.
Proverb, (German)

Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who divides honey with the bear, will be like to get the lesser share..
Proverb, (Italian)

Who does all he may never does well.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who does not beat his own child will later beat his own breast.
Proverb, (Persian)

Who does not go with you, go with him.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Who does not punish evil, invites it.
Proverb, (German)

Who does not venture gets neither horse nor mule, and who ventures too much lose horse and mule.
Proverb, (French)

Who does not wish to be like the wolf let him not wear its skin.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who does too much, often does little.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who don't keep faith with God won't keep it with man.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who doubts errs not.
Proverb, (French)

Who draws his sword against his prince must throw away his scabbard.
Proverb

Who eats capon, capon comes to him.
Proverb, (French)

Who eats his fowl alone, must saddle his horse alone.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Who errs in the tens errs in the thousands.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who excuses himself accuses himself.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who excuses himself without being accused makes his fault manifest.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who excuses, accuses.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who faints not, achieves.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Who falls short in the head, must be long in the heels.
Proverb, (German)

Who fears no shame comes to no honour.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who frequents the kitchen smells of smoke.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.
Proverb

Who gives away his goods before he is dead,
Take a beetle and knock him on the head.
Proverb

Who gives sell, sells dear, if the receiver be not a churl.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who gives to me, teaches me to give.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who gives what he has before he is dead, take a mallet and knock that fool on the head.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Who gives, teaches a return.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who glows not burns not.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who goes a beast to Rome, a beast returns.
Proverb, (English)

Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
Proverb

Who goes a-mothering finds violets in the lane.
Proverb

Who goes and returns makes a journey.
Proverb, (French)

Who goes fasting to bed will sleep but lightly.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who goes himself is in earnest, who sends is indifferent.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who goes not, sees not; who proves not, believes not.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who goes softly goes safely, and he that goes safely goes far.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who goes to bed supperless, all night tumbles and tosses.
Proverb

Who goes to Westminster for a wife, to Paul's for a man, and to Smithfield for a horse, may meet with a whore, a knave, and a jade..
Proverb

Who gossips to you will gossip about you.
Proverb, (Turkish)

Who grudges his blood to a blade had better earn his living behind the plow.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

Who has a bad wife, his hell begins on earth.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who has a head won't want for a hat.
Proverb, (German)

Who has a mouth, let him not say to another, "Blow!"
Proverb

Who has a tongue in his head can go all the world over.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has but one eye must take good care of it.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who has deceived thee so oft as thyself?
Proverb

Who has love in his heart has spurs in his sides.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has many servants has many thieves.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who has never done thinking never begins doing.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has no bread to spare should not keep a dog.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Who has no children does not know what love is.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has no head should have legs.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has no money in his purse must have honey in his mouth.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has no money must have no wishes.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has no plagues makes himself some.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has no shame all the world is his own.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has no thirst has no business at the foundation.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who has not is not.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has not, cannot.
Proverb, (French)

Who has nothing fears nothing.
Proverb, (Italian, Spanish)

Who has nothing is nothing.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has patience may get fat thrushes at a farthing apiece.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has patience sees his revenge.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has plenty of pepper may pepper his beans.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who has something is something.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has tasted a sour apple, will have the more relish for a sweet one.
Proverb, (German)

Who has time yet waits for time, comes to a time of repentance.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Who has, is.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who has, let him thereof take heed; love wanes, misfortune comes with speed.
Proverb, (German)

Who hath little shame the world is all his own.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who hath no courage must have legs.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who hears but one bell hears but one sound.
Proverb, (French)

Who hears music feels his solitude.
Proverb

Who heeds not little things, will be troubled about lesser ones.
Proverb, (German)

Who herds with wolves, must howl with wolves.
Proverb, (German)

Who holds his peace and gathers stones, will find a time to throw them.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Who honours not age, is unworthy of it.
Proverb, (German)

Who hunts two hares together catches neither.
Proverb, (German)

Who is always prying into other men's affairs, leads a dangerous life.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Who is born a fool is never cured.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who is born of a cat will run after mice. (An illusion to one of Aesop's fables.)
Proverb, (French)

Who is ell seated should not budge.
Proverb, (German)

Who is in fear of every leaf must not go into the wood.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who is in the right fears, who is in the wrong hopes.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who is not ashamed of his sins, sins double.
Proverb, (German)

Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Who is over nice, loses many a slice.
Proverb, (German)

Who is righteous overmuch is a morsel for the Old One.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who is tender in everything is a fool in everything.
Proverb, (Catalan)

Who is to bell the cat?
Proverb, (Spanish)

Who is to carry the cat to the water?
Proverb, (Spanish)

Who is well seated, let him not budge.
Proverb

Who is worse shod than the shoemaker's wife?
Proverb

Who is your enemy? A man of your own trade.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Who judges others, condemns himself.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who keeps company with a wolf will learn to howl.
Proverb

Who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl.
Proverb

Who knows most says least.
Proverb, (French, Italian, Spanish)

Who knows most, forgives most.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who knows most, knows least.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who knows not how to dissemble knows not how to reign.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who knows not how to flatter knows not how to talk.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who knows not how to pray let him go sail the sea.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who knows not the game, let him not play.
Proverb

Who knows nothing doubts nothing.
Proverb, (French)

Who knows nothing in his thirtieth year, is nothing in his fortieth, has nothing in his fiftieth; learns nothing, is nothing, and comes to nothing.
Proverb, (German)

Who knows the tongues is at home everywhere.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who laughs at others' ills, has his own behind the door.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who lends his lips to nought but blame, has in his heart no love of fame.
Proverb, (German)

Who lends recovers not; or if he recovers, recovers not all; or if not all, not much; of if much, a mortal enemy.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Who lends to a friend loses doubly.
Proverb, (French)

Who lets another sit on his shoulder, will soon have him on his head.
Proverb, (German)

Who lies down with dogs gets up with fleas.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who lies for you will lie against you.
Proverb, (Bosnian)

Who lives by hope will die by hunger.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who lives on the score has shame evermore.
Proverb, (French)

Who lives will see.
Proverb, (French)

Who looks not before finds himself behind.
Proverb

Who loses honor can lose nothing else.
Proverb, (Latin)

Who loves his work and knows to spare, may live and flourish anywhere.
Proverb, (German)

Who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long.
Proverb, (German)

Who loves the tree loves the branch.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who loves to roam may lose his home.
Proverb

Who loves well chastises well.
Proverb, (French, Italian)

Who loves well is slow to forget.
Proverb, (French)

Who loves, believes.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who loves, fears.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who makes friends of all, keeps none.
Proverb, (German)

Who makes no promises, has none to perform.
Proverb, (German)

Who makes the wolf his companion should carry a dog under his cloak.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who marries does well, who marries not does better.
Proverb

Who marrieth for love without money, hath merry nights and sorry days.
Proverb

Who may hold that will away?
Proverb

Who meddleth in all things may shoe the gosling.
Proverb

Who more busy than they who have least to do?
Proverb

Who more ready to call her neighbour scold, than the arrantest scold in the parish?
Proverb

Who more that he is worth doth spend,
He makes a rope his life to end.
Proverb

Who moves, picks up, who stands still, dries up.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who neither believes heaven or hell, the devil heartily wishes him well.
Proverb, (German)

Who offends writes on sand; who is offended, on marble.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who often changes, damages.
Proverb, (French)

Who paints me before blackens me behind.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who pays a debt creates capital.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who pays beforehand is served behindhand.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who pays soon borrows when he will.
Proverb, (French)

Who pays the piper calls the tune.
Proverb

Who picks a tool unsuited to a task should not complain if it does no more than cut the hand that holds it.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

Who preacheth war is the devil's chaplain.
Proverb

Who proves too much proves nothing.
Proverb, (French)

Who punishes one threatens a hundred.
Proverb, (French)

Who readily borrows, readily lies.
Proverb, (German)

Who receives, should thank; who gives, should be silent.
Proverb, (German)

Who reckons without his host must reckon again.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who refuses to submit to justice, must not complain of oppression.
Proverb, (German)

Who refuses, muses.
Proverb, (French)

Who rides a tiger cannot dismount.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Who rides slow, must saddle betimes.
Proverb, (German)

Who rises late must trot all day.
Proverb, (French)

Who runs is followed.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who saves, saves for the cat.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who says A must say B.
Proverb

Who says little has little to answer for.
Proverb, (German)

Who seeks adventures finds blows.
Proverb

Who seeks more than he needs hinders himself from enjoying what he has.
Proverb, (Hebrew)

Who serves the mass is thanked by none, but cursed if aught left undone.
Proverb, (French)

Who serves the public serves a fickle master.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who serves the public, serves no one.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who serves well and says nothing makes claim enough.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who serves well asks enough.
Proverb, (French)

Who so deaf as he that will not hear.
Proverb, (German)

Who sows ill reaps ill.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who sows reaps.
Proverb, (French)

Who sows thorns let him not walk bare-foot.
Proverb

Who sows thorns should not go barefoot.
Proverb, (French, Italian)

Who speaks ill of others to you will speak ill of you to others.
Proverb, (German)

Who speaks, sows; who listens, reaps.
Proverb, (French)

Who spends more than he should, shall not have to spend when he would.
Proverb

Who spits against heaven, it falls on his head.
Proverb, (French)

Who spits against the wind spits in his own face.
Proverb

Who spits against the wind, fouls his beard.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who steals a calf, steals a cow.
Proverb, (German)

Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow.
Proverb

Who takes a lion at a distance fears a mole present.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who takes an eel by the tail and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who takes an eel by the tail or a woman by her word, grasp as he will, holds nothing fast.
Proverb, (German)

Who takes the child by the hand takes the mother by the heart.
Proverb, (German)

Who talks much, errs much.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Who teaches me for a day is my father for a lifetime.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Who teacheth often learns himself.
Proverb

Who the daughter would win, with mamma must begin.
Proverb, (German)

Who threatens, warns.
Proverb, (German)

Who throws a stone above him may have it fall on his own head.
Proverb, (German)

Who throws a stone at the sky, it falls back on his head.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who timidly requests invites refusal.
Proverb, (Latin)

Who to-day was a haughty knight, is to-morrow a pennyless wight.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who travels for love finds a thousand miles not longer than one.
Proverb

Who troubles others has no rest himself.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who undertakes many things at once seldom does anything well.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who undertakes too much, succeeds but little.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who ventures nothing has no luck.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Who ventures to lend, loses money and friend.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who wants fire, let him look for it in the ashes.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who wants to beat a dog, soon finds a stick.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who watches not catches not.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who weds a sot to get his cot, will lose the cot and keep the sot.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who will not be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who will not feed the cats, must feed the mice and rats.
Proverb, (German)

Who will not keep a penny never shall have many.
Proverb

Who will not when he can, can't when he will.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Who wings, drives away care.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Who wishes for a short Lent let him contract debts to be paid at Easter.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who wishes to travel far spares his steed.
Proverb, (French)

Who wives for a dower, resigns his own power.
Proverb, (French)

Who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
Proverb

Who would avoid all strife, should be a bachelor.
Proverb, (Latin)

Who would be rich, must keep his soul under cover of his cash-box.
Proverb, (German)

Who would be young in age, must in youth be sage.
Proverb, (German)

Who would have many friends let him test but few.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who would not have feet set on his neck, let him not stoop.
Proverb, (Italian)

Who would regard all things complacently must wick at a great many.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Who would win, must learn to bear.
Proverb, (German)

Who would wish to be valued must make himself scarce.
Proverb, (German)

Who's the man that was never fooled by a woman.
Proverb, (German)

Whoever brings finds the door open for him.
Proverb, (Italian)

Whoever cares to learn will always find a teacher.
Proverb, (German)

Whoever falls sick of folly, is long in getting cured.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Whoever invented work must not have had anything to do.
Proverb, (German)

Whoever teaches his son teaches not only his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations.
Proverb, (Hebrew)

Whoever tells the truth is chased out of nine villages.
Proverb, (African)

Whom a serpent has bitten a lizard alarms.
Proverb

Whom fortune favours, the world favours.
Proverb, (German)

Whom God loves, his bitch litters pigs.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Whom God wishes to destroy He first makes mad.
[Lat., Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Whom the gods love die young.
Proverb

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.
Proverb

Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
Proverb

Whom we love best, to them we can say least.
Proverb, (English)

Whore or thief young or old, welcome so you've got the gold.
Proverb, (German)

Whoredom and grace dwelt ne'er in one place.
Proverb

Whoredom and thieving are never long concealed.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Whose bread I eat: his song I sing.
Proverb, (German)

Whose interest was it? To whose prejudice was it? [Who might expect to derive benefit, or injury, from a crime committed?]
Proverb, (Latin)

Whose life is as lightning, his words are as thunder.
Proverb, (Latin)

Whose stick, his buffalo.
Proverb, (Hindu)

Whoso hath but a mouth shall ne'er in England suffer drouth.
Proverb

Whoso hath land hath war.
Proverb, (French)

Whoso hunteth with cats will catch nothing but rats.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Whoso is tired of happy days, let him take a wife.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Whoso is well let him keep so.
Proverb, (French)

Whosoever draws his sword against the prince must throw the scabbard away.
Proverb

Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
Proverb

Why buy a cow if you can get the milk for free.
Proverb

Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?
Proverb

Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
Proverb

Why kill time when one can employ it?
Proverb, (French)

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
Proverb

Why wear out your great coat in summer?
Proverb, (Latin)

Wickedness and malice only require an opportunity.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wickedness with beauty is the devil's hook baited.
Proverb

Wide will wear but tight will tear.
Proverb

Wider ears and a short tongue.
Proverb

Widows are always rich.
Proverb

Widows' children turn out well.
Proverb

Wife and children are bills of charges.
Proverb

Wiles help weak folk.
Proverb

Wilful waste makes woeful want.
Proverb

Will he nill he, the ass must go the fair.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Will is power.
Proverb, (French)

Will is the cause of woe.
Proverb

Will laugh well who will laugh the last.
Proverb, (French)

Will will have will, though will woe win.
Proverb

Willful waste makes woeful want.
Proverb, (Scottish)

Willing exile is exile nonetheless.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

Willows are weak, yet serve to bind bigger wood.
Proverb, (Italian)

Willows are weak, yet they bind other wood.
Proverb

Win a bet of your friend, and drink it on the spot.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Win a game of your friend, and drink the money on the spot.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Win at first and lose at last.
Proverb

Win by persuasion not by force.
Proverb, (Latin)

Win gold and wear gold.
Proverb

Wind and fortune are not lasting.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Wind and good luck are seldom lasting.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Windmills are not driven by bellows.
Proverb, (German)

Wine and wenches empty men's purses.
Proverb

Wine and women make fools of everybody.
Proverb, (German)

Wine brings forth the truth.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wine carries no rudder.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wine gladdeneth the heart of man.
Proverb

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.
Proverb

Wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.
Proverb

Wine is given to bring mirth not drunkenness.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wine is old men's milk.
Proverb

Wine is one thing, drunkenness another.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wine is the mirror of the mind.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wine mars beauty and destroys the freshness of youth.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wine poured out is not wine swallowed.
Proverb, (French)

Wine upon beer is very good cheer; beer upon wine consider with fear.
Proverb, (German)

Wine wears no breeches.
Proverb, (French, Spanish)

Wine wears no mask.
Proverb

Wine will not keep in a foul vessel.
Proverb, (French)

Wink and choose.
Proverb

Wink at small faults.
Proverb

Winter and wedlock tames man and beast.
Proverb

Winter comes fast on the lazy.
Proverb, (Irish)

Winter eateth what summer getteth.
Proverb

Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail.
Proverb, (Montenegro)

Winter finds out what summer lays up.
Proverb

Winter is summer's heir.
Proverb, (Latin)

Winter never rots in the sky.
Proverb

Winter weather and women's thoughts change oft.
Proverb

Winter's thunder and summer's flood
Never boded Englishman good.
Proverb

Winter's thunder makes summer's wonder.
Proverb

Wipe the nose of your neighbour's son, and marry him to your daughter.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Wipe your eye with your elbow.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Wipe your sore eye with your elbow.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart.
Proverb, (Japanese)

Wisdom does not consist in dress.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wisdom in the man, patience in the wife, brings peace to the house, and a happy life.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dear for it.
Proverb

Wisdom is in the head and not in the beard.
Proverb, (Swedish)

Wisdom is the least burdensome travelling pack.
Proverb, (Danish)

Wisdom rides upon the ruins of folly.
Proverb

Wisdom sometimes walks in clouted shoes.
Proverb

Wise lads and old fools were never good for anything.
Proverb, (Italian)

Wise men are caught with wiles.
Proverb

Wise men care not for what they cannot have.
Proverb

Wise men change their minds, fools never.
Proverb

Wise men have their mouths in their hearts, fools their hearts in their mouths.
Proverb

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
Proverb

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools, by their own.
Proverb, (Latin)

Wise men propose, and fools determine.
Proverb

Wise men sue for offices, and blockheads get them.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Wise rats run from a falling house.
Proverb

Wishers and wolders be small householders.
Proverb

Wishes are the echo of a lazy will.
Proverb

Wishes can never fill a sack.
Proverb, (Italian)

Wishes never filled the bag.
Proverb, (French)

Wishes won't wash dishes.
Proverb, (American)

Wishing does not make a poor man rich.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Wit is folly unless a wise man hath the keeping of it.
Proverb

Wit once bought is worth twice taught.
Proverb

Wit without discretion is a sword in the hand of a fool.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Wit's never bought till it's paid for.
Proverb

With a good name one may easily sin.
Proverb, (Dutch)

With a little wrong a man comes by his right.
Proverb, (Spanish)

With a staircase before you, you look for a rope to go down by.
Proverb, (Spanish)

"With all my heart!" says the boor, when he must.
Proverb, (German)

With an old husband's hide one buys a young one.
Proverb, (French)

With art and knavery we live through half the year; with knavery and art we live through the other.
Proverb, (Italian)

With bread and wine you can walk your road.
Proverb, (Spanish)

With empty hands men may no hawks allure.
Proverb

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.
Proverb, (French)

With great men one must allow five to be an even number.
Proverb, (German)

"With great pleasure," says the boor, when he must.
Proverb, (German)

With honour and store, what would you more.
Proverb, (Dutch)

With houses and gold, men are rarely bold.
Proverb, (German)

With Latin, a horse, and money, thou wilt pass through the world.
Proverb, (Italian)

With law must the land be built.
Proverb, (Danish)

With lies you may go ahead in the world--but you can never go back.
Proverb, (Russian)

With lightning and with love, the clothes sound, the heart burned.
Proverb, (Spanish)

With money in your pocket you are wise, you are handsome, and you sing well too.
Proverb, (Jewish)

With money one may command devils; without it, one cannot even summon a man.
Proverb, (Chinese)

With money you can build a road in the sea.
Proverb, (Maltese)

With money you would not know yourself, without money nobody would know you.
Proverb, (Spanish)

With nice appearance people want to be deceived.
Proverb, (German)

With one foot in the grave.
Proverb

With one hand he scratches you, and with the other he strikes you.
Proverb, (Latin)

With patience and time the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Proverb, (German)

With reason one can travel the world over; without it, it is hard to move an inch.
Proverb, (Chinese)

With someone holding nothing but trumps it is impossible to play cards.
Proverb

With the fox one must play the fox.
Proverb, (Italian)

With the good we become good.
Proverb, (Dutch)

With the Gospel men may become heretics.
Proverb, (Italian)

With the help of an If you might put Paris into a bottle.
Proverb, (French)

With the idle it is always holy day time.
Proverb, (Latin)

With the skin of the dog its bite is cured.
Proverb, (Italian)

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Proverb, (Chinese)

With time and straw medlars ripen.
Proverb, (French, Italian)

With time, even a bear can learn to dance.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

With wishing comes grieving.
Proverb, (Italian)

Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock.
Proverb, (Russian)

Without bread and wine even love will pine.
Proverb, (French)

Without business, debauchery.
Proverb

Without debt without care.
Proverb, (Italian)

Without divine assistance we can achieve nothing.
Proverb, (Latin)

Without favour, art is like a windmill without wind.
Proverb

Without knowledge, without sin.
Proverb, (German)

Without learning, without eyes.
Proverb, (Lithuanian)

Without pains no gains.
Proverb

Without perseverance talent is a barren bed.
Proverb, (Welsh)

Without rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Witticisms spare no one.
Proverb, (French)

Wives must be had, be they good or bad.
Proverb

Woe be to an evil eye.
Proverb, (Danish)

Woe be to him whose advocate becomes his accuser.
Proverb

Woe to the house where the hen crows and the rooster is still.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Woe to the mule that sees not her master.
Proverb

Wolves are often hidden under sheep's clothing.
Proverb, (Danish)

Wolves do not eat each other.
Proverb, (French, Italian)

Wolves don't eat wolves.
Proverb, (Italian)

Wolves have howled at the moon for centuries, yet it is still there.
Proverb

Woman (decides), impromptu; man, on reflection.
Proverb, (Italian)

Woman is the woe of man.
Proverb, (Latin)

Woman's beauty, the forest echo, and rainbows, soon pass away.
Proverb, (German)

Woman, wind, and luck soon change.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Women always speak the truth, but not the whole truth.
Proverb, (Italian)

Women and dogs set men together by the ears.
Proverb

Women and glass are always in danger.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Women and hens are lost by too much gadding.
Proverb, (Italian)

Women and hens by too much gadding are lost.
Proverb

Women and maidens must be praised, whether truly or falsely.
Proverb, (German)

Women and music should never be dated.
Proverb

Women and their will are dangerous ills.
Proverb

Women and wine, game and deceit,
Make the wealth small and the wants great.
Proverb

Women are always in extremes.
Proverb

Women are as fickle as April weather.
Proverb, (German)

Women are as wavering as the wind.
Proverb

Women are born in Wiltshire, brought up in Cumberland, lead their lives in Bedfordshire, bring their husbands to Buckingham, and die in Shrewsbury.
Proverb

Women are necessary evils.
Proverb

Women are never at a loss for words.
Proverb, (German)

Women are saints in church, angels in the street, devils in the kitchen, and apes in bed.
Proverb

Women are supernumerary when present, and missed when absent.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Women are watches that keep bad time.
Proverb, (German)

Women are wise impromptu, fools on reflection.
Proverb, (Italian)

Women can hold up half the sky.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Women do not drink liquor but it disappears when they are present.
Proverb, (Irish)

Women in state affairs are like monkeys in glass-houses.
Proverb

Women in state affairs are like monkeys in glass-shops.
Proverb

Women know a point more than the devil.
Proverb, (Italian)

Women laugh when they can and weep when they will.
Proverb

Women must have the last word.
Proverb

Women must have their wills when they live, because they make none when they die.
Proverb

Women naturally deceive, weep and spin.
Proverb

Women rouge that they may not blush.
Proverb, (Italian)

Women when injured are generally not easily appeased.
Proverb, (Latin)

Women's jars breed men's wars.
Proverb

Women's tears are a fountain of craft.
Proverb, (Italian)

Women, asses, and nuts, require strong hands.
Proverb, (Italian)

Women, fortune, and gold, favour fools.
Proverb, (German)

Women, money, and wine have their balm and their harm.
Proverb, (French)

Women, priests, and poultry, never have enough.
Proverb, (Italian)

Women, wind, and fortune, soon change.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
Proverb, (Greek)

Wonder is the daughter of ignorance.
Proverb

Wonders will never cease.
Proverb

Woo the widow whilst she is in weeds.
Proverb, (German)

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight.
Proverb, (African)

Wood in a wilderness, moss in a mountain, and wit in a poor man's breast, are little thought of.
Proverb

Woods have ears and fields have eyes.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Woods have ears, fields have eyes.
Proverb, (German)

Word by word the big books are made.
Proverb, (French)

Words are but sands; 'tis money buys lands.
Proverb

Words are but wind, but blows unkind.
Proverb

Words are female, deeds are male.
Proverb, (Italian)

Words are for women, actions for men.
Proverb

Words are good, but fowls lay eggs.
Proverb, (German)

Words are good, when works follow.
Proverb, (German)

Words are like eggs: when they are hatched they have wings.
Proverb, (Malagasy)

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.
Proverb, (Yoruban)

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
Proverb, (French)

Words are wind.
Proverb

Words butter not parsnips.
Proverb, (Latin)

Words cut more than swords.
Proverb

Words don't will the sack.
Proverb, (German)

Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles.
Proverb, (Korean)

Words in mouth, no load upon head.
Proverb, (Jamaican)

Words may either conceal character or reveal it.
Proverb, (Latin)

Words must be weighed, not counted.
Proverb, (Polish)

Words of snow, which fell last year.
Proverb, (German)

Words often do more than blows.
Proverb, (German)

Words once spoken cannot be wiped out with a sponge.
Proverb, (Danish)

Words should be weighed, not counted.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Words show the wit of a man, but actions his meaning.
Proverb

Words will not do for my aunt, for she does not put faith even in deeds.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Words won't feet cats.
Proverb, (Italian)

Work and you will be strong; sit and you will stink.
Proverb, (Moroccan)

Work done expects money.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Work expands so as to fill the time available.
Proverb

Work is the medicine for poverty.
Proverb, (Yoruban)

Work makes free.
Proverb, (German)

Work makes the workman.
Proverb, (Latin)

Workmen are easier found than masters.
Proverb, (German)

Works have a stronger voice than words.
Proverb, (Latin)

Worldly good is ebb and flood.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Worries go better with soup than without.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Worries go down better with soup.
Proverb

Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Proverb, (Swedish)

Worrying never did anyone any good.
Proverb

Worse things happen at sea.
Proverb

Worthless is the advice of fools.
Proverb, (Latin)

Would you be strong, conquer yourself.
Proverb, (German)

Would you have me serve you, good king, give me the means of living.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Would you have potatoes grow by the pot-side?
Proverb

Would you know your daughter? See her in company.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Would you live long, be healthy and fat, drink like a dog and eat like a cat.
Proverb, (German)

Would you shear a donkey for wool!
Proverb, (Latin)

Would you take water to the frog?
Proverb, (Latin)

Wounds from the knife are healed, but not those from the tongue.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Wounds heal, but not ill words.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Wounds pain most when grown cool.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Wranglers never want words.
Proverb

Wrap yourself together in a carpet and roll together with your kinsmen.
Proverb, (Azerbaijani)

Wrath often consumes what god gives husbands.
Proverb, (Icelandic)

Write down the advice of him who love you, though you like it not at present.
Proverb, (English)

Write injuries in dust,
But kindnesses in marble.
[Fr., Eerivez les injures sue le sable,
Mais les bienfaits sur le marbre.]
Proverb, (French)

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.
Proverb, (French)

Write injuries in the sand, kindnesses in marble.
Proverb, (French)

Write on one of the devil's horns, "Good angel," and many will believe it.
Proverb, (German)

Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Wrong never comes right.
Proverb

Wrongdoers and assenting parties are equally punishable.
Proverb, (Latin)

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