The wind will let us neither sail nor stay. - Proverb, (Latin) The windy day is not a day for scallops [thatching]. - Proverb, (Irish) The wine given to your workmen is that for which you get the best paid. - Proverb, (French) The wine has been poured and must be drunk. - Proverb, (Darkovan) The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst. - Proverb The wine is not known by the hoops. - Proverb, (French) The wine will taste of the cask. - Proverb The wine-skin has its reasons for smelling of pitch. - Proverb, (Portuguese) The winter is gone, the spring is come, a fly for those who us good have done. - Proverb, (Spanish) The wise drunkard is a sober fool. - Proverb, (German) The wise hand does not all that the tongue says. - Proverb, (Spanish) The wise knows that he does not know; the ignoramus thinks he knows. - Proverb, (Spanish) The wise man does not hang his knowledge on a hook. - Proverb, (Spanish) The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. - Proverb, (German) The wise man looks inside his heart and finds eternal peace. - Proverb, (Hindu) The wise man sits on the hole in his carpet. - Proverb, (Persian) The wise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when he speaks. - Proverb, (Yiddish) The wise understand by themselves, fools follow the reports of others. - Proverb, (Tibetan) The wish is father to the thought. - Proverb, (Latin) The wish is the father of the deed. - Proverb, (American) The wit one wants spoils what one has. - Proverb, (French) The witness of a rat is another rat. - Proverb, (Ethiopian) The wolf and the fox are both in one story. - Proverb, (Spanish) The wolf bemoans the sheep, and then eats it. - Proverb, (Italian) The wolf changes his hair, but not his nature. - Proverb, (Latin) The wolf changes his teeth but not his disposition. - Proverb, (Spanish) The wolf commits no mischief at home. - Proverb, (Spanish) The wolf dances round the well. [Longing for the water he cannot reach.] - Proverb, (Latin) The wolf does that in the course of the week which hinders him from going to mass on Sunday. - Proverb, (Spanish) The wolf eats of what is counted. - Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish) The wolf eats oft of the sheep that have been warned. - Proverb The wolf is always left out of the reckoning. - Proverb, (Italian) The wolf is always said to be bigger than he is. - Proverb, (Italian) The wolf is always said to be more terrible than he is. - Proverb The wolf is not always a wolf. - Proverb, (Italian) The wolf is not as big as people make him. - Proverb, (French) The wolf is well pleased with the kick of a sheep. - Proverb, (Portuguese) The wolf loses his teeth, but not his inclination. - Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish) The wolf never wants a pretext against the lamb. - Proverb The wolf picks up the ass's fleas by moonlight. - Proverb, (Spanish) The wolf preys not in his own field. - Proverb, (Danish) The wolf will die in his skin. - Proverb, (French) The woman cries before the wedding and the man after. - Proverb, (Polish) The woman in finery, the house in filth, but the doorway swept. - Proverb, (Spanish) The woman who gives is seldom good; the woman who accepts is in the power of the giver. - Proverb, (Italian) The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain. - Proverb, (Chinese) The wood has ears, the field has eyes. - Proverb, (German) The wood is burnt, but the ashes are a nuisance. - Proverb, (Afghan) The word of honour of a gentleman--another pledge would be better. - Proverb, (French) The words are fair, said the wolf, but I will not come into the village. - Proverb, (Dutch)