Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases Part 40

1824. WOMEN. Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.

1825. WOMEN (WILLS). Women must have their wills while they live, because they make none when they die.

1826. WONDER. A wonder lasts but nine days.

1827. WOO. To woo is a pleasure in young men, a fault in old.

1828. WOODc.o.c.k. One woodc.o.c.k does not make a winter.

1829. WOOING.

Happy is the wooing, That is not long a-doing.

1830. WOOL. Many go for wool and come back shorn.

1831. WOOL SELLERS. Wool sellers know wool buyers.

1832. WORD. An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

1833. WORDS.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

1834. WORDS.

Words are but sands, 'Tis money buys lands.

1835. WORDS.

Sometimes words Wound more than swords.

1836. WORDS. Words are like weights, gravity gives them effect.

1837. WORDS. Words are for women, actions for men.

1838. WORDS AND BLOWS.

Words are but wind, But blows unkind.

1839. WORD (ENOUGH). A word is enough to the wise.

1840. WORDS (EVENING). Words spoken in an evening the wind carrieth away.

1841. WORDS (FAIR). Fair words b.u.t.ter no parsnips.

1842. WORDS (FAIR). Fair words will not keep a cat from starving.

1843. WORDS (FEW). Few words are best.

1844. WORDS (GOOD). Good words cool more than cold water.

1845. WORDS (GOOD). Good words fill not a sack.

1846. WORDS (MANY). Many words will not fill a bushel.

1847. WORDS (SOFT). Soft words hurt not the mouth.

1848. WORK. They that will not work in heat, must hunger in frost.

1849. WORKMEN (BAD). Bad workmen always complain of their tools.

1850. WORLD. One half of the world knows not how the other half lives.

1851. WORLD. The world is his who knows how to wait for it.

1852. WORLD. The world was never so dull but if one won't another will.

1853. WORLD. This world is nothing except it tend to the next.

1854. WORLD'S PULSE. There needs a long time to know the world's pulse.

1855. WORM. Tread on a worm and it will turn.

1856. WORST. When things get to the worst, they'll mend.

1857. WORST SPOKE. The worst spoke in the cart-wheel breaks first.

1858. WOULD.

"He that wolde not when he might, He shall not when he wold-a."

1859. WOUNDS. Wounds may heal, but not those made by ill words.

1860. WRANGLERS. Wranglers never want words.

1861. WRATH. A soft answer turneth away wrath.

1862. WRESTLE. He that is thrown would ever wrestle.

1863. WRETCH. He who maketh others wretched is himself a wretch, whether prince or peasant.

1864. WRONGS. Two wrongs will not make a right.

1865. WRONG SOW. To take the wrong sow by the ear.

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1866. YEAR. Say no ill of the year till it is pa.s.sed.