Were the sky to fall, not an earthen pot would be left whole, [341] (See If the sky, &c.)
Were there no fools there would be no wise men, [149]
Were you at the wedding, Molly? No, mother, but the bride was very fine, [230]
What a monk thinks, he dares, [10]
What a woman wills, God wills, [10], [229]
What belongs to the ravens is never drowned, [175]
What can’t be cured must be endured, [175], [290]
What children hear their parents say by the fireside they repeat in the highway, [213]
What Christ (or the Church) does not take the Exchequer takes, [176], [229]