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"Hitch your wagon to a star. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)"

"Wait and see. (Herbert Asquith)"

"Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk."

"Learn to walk before you run."

"Walk softly, carry a big stick."

"War is too important to be left to the generals."

"Willful waste makes woeful want."

"Still water runs deep."

"What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."

"All the wealth I had ran in my veins; I was a gentleman. (William Shakespeare)"

"Wealth rarely brings happiness. (Strauss, 1994 p. 670)"

"Go West, young man, go West! (John Soule)"

"Set a herring to catch a whale. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1134)"

"Don't try to reinvent the wheel."

"The squeaky wheel gets the grease."

"A cheerful wife is the spice of life. (Strauss, 1998 p. 20)"

"A man's best fortune or his worst is a wife. (Strauss, 1994 p. 65)"

"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye. (Strauss, 1994 p. 655)"

"He that will thrive must first ask his wife."

"The cobbler's wife is the worst shod."

"There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured."

"Two things prolong your life: A quiet heart and a loving wife."

"Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. (Francis Bacon)"

"He that will not when he may, when he will he may have nay."

"Take the will for the deed. (Strauss, 1994 p. 881)"

"Where there is a will, there is a way."

"Slow and steady wins the race."

"He that sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind."

"For when the wine is in the wit is out. (Thomas Becon)"

"Life is too short (to drink bad wine)."

"Good wine needs no bush."

"Wine in , truth out. (16th century)"

"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. (William Blake)"

"Some are wise and some are otherwise. (1659)"

"Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it."

"Willful waste makes woeful want. (Wolfgang, 1992 p. 925)"

"The wolf finds a reason for taking the lamb. (Strauss, 1994, p. 68)"

"There is no other purgatory but a woman. (Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)"

"Well behaved women seldom make history."

"Touch wood. (20th century)"

"You cannot see the wood for trees. (1546)"

"A deluge of words and a drop of sense."

"A word spoken is past recalling."

"Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves."

"Fine words butter no parsnips."

"Many a true word is spoken in jest."

"Many words will not fill a bushel."

"No need of words, trust deeds. (Strauss, 1994 p. 91)"

"A woman's work is never done."