Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Why buy the cow when you can get the milk
for free?
Why didn't the midwife, who cut your naval
string, cut your head instead?
Why drive away fowls from the dung you
do not eat yourself?
Why fit in when you were born to stand
out?
Why have a dog and bark yourself?
Why hide from God what the saints already
know?
Why jump in the water before the ship turns
over.
Why keep a dog and bark yourself?
Why kill time when one can employ it?
Why killing using poison when you can kill
by honey?
Why marry, when your neighbor's wife is
ready to go to bed with you?
Why pay for the cow when the milk is free?
Why save when your son is a good son?
Why save when your son is a bad son?
Why should I shave when God doesn't?
Why should the devil have all the best
tunes?
Why take away something by force which
you can obtain by love?
Why they like an ugly person takes long for
a beautiful person to know.
Why wear out your great coat in summer?
Why worry? If you worry - you die. If you
don't worry - you'll still die. So why
worry?
Why would a man without a bow look for
arrows?
Why would a pool that doesn't have water
need so many frogs?
Why would you use poison if you can kill
with honey.
Wickedness and malice only require an
opportunity.
Wickedness with beauty is the devil's hook
baited.
Wide ears and short tongue are the best.
Wide experience makes for deep tolerance.
Wide lugs an a short tongue is best.
Wide will wear, but tight will tear.
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Wider ears and a short tongue.
Widows comfort themselves when they
remarry, widowers take revenge.
Widows weep but they look for another
husband.
Wield the paddles together.
Wife and children are bills of charges.
Wild ducks and tomorrow both come
without calling.
Wiles help weak folk.
Wilfu' waste mak waefu' want.
Will he nill he, the ass must go the fair.
Will heal before wedding.
Will is power.
Will laugh well who will laugh the last.
Willful waste makes woeful want.
Willful wives are best kept in the hog shed.
Willing exile is exile nonetheless.
Willing is a good man, but Able is a better
one.
Willows are weak but they bind other wood.
Willows are weak, yet serve to bind bigger
wood.
Wily as a German.
Win a bet of your friend, and drink it on the
spot.
Win a cat and lose a cow -- the consequence
of litigation.
Win a game of your friend, and drink the
money on the spot.
Win by persuasion not by force.
Win or lose, there's always Huyperian beetle
snuff.
Win your lawsuit and lose your money.
Wind and fortune are not lasting.
Wind and good luck are seldom lasting.
Wind from the east is good for neither man
nor beast.
Windmills are not driven by bellows.
Winds blow counter to what ships desire.
Wine and wenches empty men’s purses.
Wine and women make fools of everybody.
Wine bears no blame -- only the drunkard.
Wine brings forth the truth.
Wine carries no rudder.