Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Wagon makes the loudest noise when it's
goin' out empty.
Wait a minute! wait a minute! harms the
stomach.
Wait for a month before you praise a horse,
and for a year before you praise a
woman.
Wait for the night before saying that the day
has been beautiful.
Wait for the water to pass then get settled.
(If there is a problem you must wait for
the end, then you can rejoice.)
Wait for the water to pass then say, “I am
blessed.” (Do not be quick to rejoice
before you see the end result of
something.)
Wait for time and lose time.
Wait horse for green grass.
Wait long, strike fast.
Wait three years for promised.
Wait 'til your ass crosses the bridge.
Wait till yuh trough put, then bubble in it.
Wait time and place to take your revenge,
for it is never well done in a hurry.
Wait until it is night before saying it has
been a fine day.
Wait until it is night before saying that is has
been a fine day.
Wait until the tree has fallen before you
jump over it.
Waiting for a rabbit to hit upon a tree and be
killed in order to catch it.
Waiting is futile for whomever wants to kiss
someone's backside.
Wake not a sleeping cat.
Wake not a sleeping lion.
Waken not sleeping dogs.
Walk a mile in my moccasins to learn where
they pinch.
Walk a mile it is best for the digestion.
Walk better dan sidong.
Walk in the valley of our ancestors, learn of
the history, and marvel at the beauty.
Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is
pregnant.
Walk like the cat around hot porridge.
Walk on your own feet.
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Walk on your own lands.
Walk sidewise and block the way.
Walk softly but carry a big stick.
Walk straight and you will not fall.
Walk straight, my son - as the old crab said
to the young crab.
Walk until the blood appears on the cheek,
but not the sweat on the brow.
Walk with your slippers until you can find
your shoes.
Walk your own road and bear your own
load.
Walking in two is medicine.
Walking over corpses.
Walking slowly, even the donkey will reach
Lhasa.
Walls are the notebooks of fools.
Walls don't have ears but they hear, they
don't have mouths but they speak.
Walls have ears, and little pots too.
Walls have ears, bottles have mouths.
Walls have ears, doors have eyes.
Walls have ears, paper sliding doors have
eyes.
Walls have ears.
Walls have mice and mice have ears.
Walls sink and dunghills rise.
Walnuts and pears you plant for your heirs.
Want a thing long enough, and you don't.
Want all, lose all.
Want and necessity break faith and oaths.
Want i' want i', cyaa get i' an' get i' get i', no
want i'.
Want is the mother of industry.
Want is the whetstone of wit.
Want of variety leads to satiety.
Want of wit is waur than want of health.
Want siller, want fish.
Wanton kittens make sober cats.
War appears pleasant to those who have
never experienced it.
War begun, hell unchained.
War does not determine who is right, only
who is remaining.
War ends nothing.