Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Wealth, like an index, reveals the character
of men.
Wealth, like want, ruins mony.
Weans maun creep ere they gang.
Weapons are of no use to the fearful.
Weapons bodes peace.
Weapons, women, and locks must be
guarded at all times.
Wear no sword at kinsman's board.
Wear not boots too big for your feet.
Wear not out your welcome.
Wearing a mended dress is better than being
naked.
Weather, husbands, and sons come as you
take them.
Weather, wind, women, and fortune change
like the moon.
Weave in faith and God will find the thread.
Weaving a net is better than praying for fish
at the edge of the water.
Wedded in September, widow or sorrow.
Weddings and widowings are by the hand
of destiny.
Wedlock is a padlock.
Wedlock is like a place besieged: those
within wish to get out, those without
wish to get in.
Wedlock rides in the saddle and repentance
on the crupper.
Wee things fley cowards.
Weeds last the season.
Weeds need to be uprooted.
Weeds never die out.
Weeds never perish.
Weeds want no sowing.
Weel kens the mouse when pussie's in.
Weep for the mourners, not for the dead;
they have gone to their rest, and we are
left to lament.
Weeping bride, laughing wife; laughing
bride, weeping wife.
Weeping makes the heart grow lighter.
Weeping washes the face.
Weigh justly and sell dearly.
Weight and measure save a man toil.
Weighty work must be done with few
words.
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Weil bides, weil betides.
Weil is that weil does.
Weil worth aw, that gars the plough draw.
Welcome an opportunity as it comes.
Welcome evil if thou comest alone.
Welcome is the best cheer.
Welcome is the best dish in the kitchen.
Welcome is the best dish on the table.
Welcome is the best dish.
Welcome, evil, if thou comest alone.
Welcome, misfortune, if you come alone.
We'll bark oursels ere we buy dog.
Well begun is half done.
We'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
Well done is better than well said.
Well done, soon done.
Well fed but ill taught.
Well goes the case when wisdom counsels.
Well good-mother-daughter.
Well is that well does.
We'll just have to make do.
Well knows the cats whose ear she licks.
We'll never know the worth of water till the
well go dry.
Well started is half won.
Well water is not an enemy of spring water.
Well-done outlives death.
Well-married is when you have no mother-
in-law and no sister-in-law.
Well-regulated charity begins with one's
self.
Well-timed silence is the most commanding
expression.
Went in one ear and out the other.
Went to get wool, but returned bald.
Went to Haj while pilgrims are coming back.
Were a woman rules the house, the devil is
serving-man.
We're alive from lack of a shroud.
We're all a little crazy in one way or another.
Were everyone to sweep in front of his own
house, every street would be clean.
Were fools silent, they would pass for wise.
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we
might as well dance.
Were he to throw a groat on the roof, it
would come down a dollar.