A threatened blow is seldom given. - Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
- A threatened blow is seldom given.
- A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
- A tree is known by its fruit.
- A tuft of hair from a mangy mare.
- A wager is a fool's argument.
- A walking foot is aye getting.
- A watched pan is long in boiling.
- A watched pot never boils.
- A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
- A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
- A wise man changes his mind sometimes, a fool never.
- A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
- A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.
- A wise woman is one who has a great deal to say, and remains silent.
- A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
- A wolf in sheep's clothing.
- A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
- A woman's advice is best at a dead lift.
- A wonder lasts but nine days.
- A wonderful discovery – psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they are complex.
- A word dropped from a song makes it all wrong.
- A word is enough to the wise.
- A word spoken is past recalling.
- A word to the wise is enough.
- A word warmly said gives comfort even to a cat.
- Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.
- ace in the hole
- across the board
- Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
- Actions speak louder than words.
- ad lib
- Admiration is a very shortlived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
- Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
- Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
- Adversity is a great schoolmaster.
- Adversity makes strange bedfellows.
- Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
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