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This resource includes the best-known proverbs in the English language from around the world with quotations that provide a history of each proverb. Discover the story behind "Never say never," "It takes one to know one," and "Once bitten, twice shy."
On this page: walk: We must learn to walk before we can run to work: It is not work that kills, but worry.

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walk: We must learn to walk before we can run

walls: Walls have ears

walnuts: Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs

want: For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost

want: If you want a thing done well, do it yourself

want: If you want something done, ask a busy person

wanton: Wanton kittens make sober cats

wash: One does not wash one's dirty linen in public

waste: Waste not, want not

watched: A watched pot never boils

water: Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim

way: The way to a man's heart is through his stomach

way: There is more than one way to skin a cat

ways: There are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream

ways: There are more ways of killing a dog than choking it with butter

ways: There are more ways of killing a dog than hanging it

weakest: The weakest go to the wall

wedding: One wedding brings another

wedlock: Wedlock is a padlock

well: All's well that ends well

well: Well begun is half done

what: It's not what you know, it's who you know

whistling: A whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men

white: One white foot, buy him; two white feet, try him; three white feet, look well about him; four white feet, go without him

wilful: A wilful man must have his way

wilful: Wilful waste makes woeful want

will: He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay

will: Where there's a will, there's a way

wills: He who wills the end, wills the means

win: You can't win them all

win: You win a few, you lose a few

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

wine: When the wine is in, the wit is out

winter: Winter never rots in the sky

wise: It is a wise child that knows its own father

wise: It is easy to be wise after the event

wish: The wish is father to the thought

wishes: If wishes were horses, beggars would ride

woman: A woman and a ship ever want mending

woman: A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

woman: A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be

woman's: A woman's place is in the home

woman's: A woman's work is never done

wonders: Wonders will never cease

wooing: Happy's the wooing that is not long a-doing

wool: Many go out for wool and come home shorn

word: A word to the wise is enough

work: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

work: If you won't work you shan't eat

work: It is not work that kills, but worry

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