Virtue subdues power, [171]

W.

Wait is a hard word to the hungry, [137]

Wait time and place to take your revenge, for it is never well done in a hurry, [73]

Wake not a sleeping cat (or dog), [40], [115], [167], [337]

Walls have ears, [35], [141], [268], [306]

Walls sink and dunghills rise, [193], [263]

Want and necessity break faith and oaths, [401]

War begun, hell unchained, [100]

War is pleasant to him who does not go to it (or who has not tried it), [139], [275]