Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Without the companionship even paradise
would be boring.
Without the forest, there will be no more
water, without water, there will be no
more rice.
Without the shepherd, sheep are not a flock.
Without war there can be no peace.
Without wind, the ears of the grass do not
move.
Without wine, even beautiful cherry
blossoms have small attraction.
Without women there is no day and no
night.
Without work there is no dinner.
Without work there won't be any bread in
your mouth.
Wit's never bought till it's paid for.
Witticisms spare no one.
Wives from the mountains and husbands
from the cities.
Wives must be had, be they good or bad.
Wives serve, brothers inherit.
Woe be to an evil eye.
Woe be to him whose advocate becomes his
accuser.
Woe is he who claims to have found
happiness.
Woe is he whose meal is in the river.
Woe to being a housewife/househusband,
you buy one thing, you don't have two
others.
Woe to him that is alone.
Woe to him who sits upon a branch.
Woe to Leili's doogh, the yogurt was too
little and the water too much.
Woe to the high spirited bride whose
mother-in-law is still alive.
Woe to the house where the hen crows and
the rooster is still.
Woe to the house where the weasel is in the
eggs and the dog sleeps soundly.
Woe to the house where there is no chiding.
Woe to the man that entrusts his secrets to a
ditch.
Woe to the mule that sees not her master.
Woe to thee, o land, when thy King is a
child.
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Woe unto the patient whose doctors argue.
Woeful is the household that wants a
woman.
Wolf doesn't eat wolf.
Wolf in sheep's clothing.
Wolves are often hidden under sheep's
clothing.
Wolves do not eat each other.
Wolves don't eat wolves.
Wolves have howled at the moon for
centuries, yet it is still there.
Wolves never gossip about each other.
Woman is like your shadow; follow her, she
flies; fly from her, she follows.
Woman was born three days earlier than the
devil.
Woman without man is like a field without
seed.
Woman, impromptu; man, on reflection.
Woman, wind, and luck soon change.
Woman's beauty, the forest echo, and
rainbows, soon pass away.
Women always speak the truth, but not the
whole truth.
Women always tend to the bad.
Women and bairns keep counsell of that
they ken not.
Women and calendars are good only for a
year.
Women and cats in the house, men and dogs
in the street.
Women and children first
Women and cloth should not be bought in
the evening.
Women and dogs set men together by their
ears.
Women and donkeys need the stick.
Women and fishes are best in the middle.
Women and fools never forgive.
Women and glass are always in danger.
Women and glasses are always in danger.
Women and hens are lost by too much
gadding.
Women and maidens must be praised,
whether truly or falsely.