Great Throughts Treasury

"When Queen Anne was alive."

"When the fox preaches, take care of your geese."

"When the cat is away, the mice will play."

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

"When the devil is blind."

"When the oak is before the ash, then you will only get a splash; when the ash is before the oak, then you may expect a soak."

"When they came to shoe the horses, the beetle stretched out his leg."

"When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away."

"When thieves fall out, honest men come by their own."

"When the pinch comes, you remember the old shoe."

"Where there's smoke, there's fire."

"Wherever you go, there you are."

"Where there's a will there's a way."

"When wine is in wit is out."

"Who has never tasted bitter, knows not what is sweet."

"While the doctors consult, the patient dies."

"While the grass grows the horse starves."

"Who breaks, pays."

"While there is life there is hope."

"Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl."

"Who pays the piper calls the tune."

"Who is so deaf or so blind as he that willfully will neither hear nor see?"

"Why keep a dog and bark yourself?"

"Whom the Gods love die young."

"With time and patience the leaf of the mulberry becomes satin."

"Women and children first."

"Wise after the event."

"Words pay no debts."

"Where there's muck there's brass."

"Wise men think alike."

"Wonders will never cease."

"Work smarter, not harder."

"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow."

"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."

"You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."

"Work expands so as to fill the time available."

"You are what you eat."

"You can have too much of a good thing."

"You cannot eat your cake and have it."

"Worrying never did anyone any good."

"You cannot teach old dogs new tricks."

"You can't fight city hall."

"You cannot flay the same ox twice."

"You cannot judge a tree by it bark."

"You can't get a quart into a pint pot."

"You can't get blood out of a stone."

"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink."

"Wrap it before you tap it."

"You cannot wash charcoal white."

"Wine and wenches empty mens’ purses."