Proverb: Wash one’s dirty linen in public.
English Meaning: To disclose inner words before outward people.
Proverb:Waste not, want not.
English Meaning: if a person never wastes things he or she will always have what is needed.
Proverb: We first make our habits, and than our habits make us.
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Proverb: We live in deed, not in years.
English Meaning: Good deeds make a man immortal.
Proverb: We must learn to walk before we can run.
English Meaning: You must master a basic skill before you are able to learn more complex things.
Proverb: We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
English Meaning: Blessings are not valued till they are gone
Proverb: We stand or fall together.
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Proverb: Weal and weo come by turns.
English Meaning: After fair weather comes cloud, change is the law of nature.
Proverb: Well begun is half done.
English Meaning: Beginning a project well makes it easier to do the rest.
Proverb: What can’t be cured must be endured.
English Meaning: One must submit to the inevitable.
Proverb: What god wills is for good.
English Meaning: Be content with the result after doing anything.
Proverb: What god wills no frost can kill.
English Meaning: None can harm when Allah saves.
Proverb: What goes up must come down.
English Meaning: Anything that has risen or been raised up must eventually fall down
Proverb: What is done cannot be undone.
English Meaning: One cannot change what has already happened
Proverb: What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business.
English Meaning: Things are mismanaged when too many are interest in them; Too many cooks spoil the broth
Proverb: What is lotted cannot be blotted.
English Meaning: One must submit to the inevitable.
Proverb: What is sauce for the gander is not for the goose.
English Meaning: What suits one may not suit another.
Proverb: What is sport to the cat is death to the rat.
English Meaning: What is good for one may be harmful to another.
Proverb: What must be, must be and what will be, will be.
English Meaning: If something is fated to happen, one cannot stop it form happening; what is lotted can’t be blotted.
Proverb: What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.
English Meaning: What you don’t know won’t hurt you.
Proverb: What’s in a name.
English Meaning: The name of a thing does not matter as much as the quality of a thing.
Proverb: When in Rome, do as Romans do.
English Meaning: Do as the time demands.
Proverb: When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
English Meaning: do as the time demands.
Proverb: When one door shuts, another opens.
English Meaning: When you lose one opportunity, you often find a different one.
Proverb: When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window.
English Meaning: The couple will stop loving each other when the money runs out. When the wolf comes in at the door, love creeps out of the window
Proverb: When the cat’s away, the mice will play.
English Meaning: when no one in authority is present, the subordinates can do as they please.
Proverb: When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
English Meaning: When things are difficult, strong people take action and do not despair.
Proverb: Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise.
English Meaning: If knowing something makes you unhappy, it would be better not to know it.
Proverb: Where there is a will, there is a way.
English Meaning: A strong will carries everything before it.
Proverb: Where there is justice, there is victory.
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Proverb: While there is life, there is hope.
English Meaning: A drowing man catches at a straw
Proverb: Who is bell the cat.
English Meaning: who will take the risk and responsibilities of doing a difficult task.
Proverb: Who knows nothings, doubts nothing.
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Proverb: Whoever calumniates his preceptor is damned.
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Proverb: Why buy a cow when you can get milk for free.
English Meaning: Why pay for something that you can get for free otherwise.
Proverb: Wishes never fill the bag.
English Meaning: Only fine words butter no parsnips.
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