828 Traditional Proverbs / Page 39
761.
Visits always give pleasure; if not the arrival, the departure.762.
Want is the mother of industry.763.
Wash your hands often, your feet seldom, and your head never.764.
Waste not, want not.765.
We all end up in a single bed sooner or later.766.
We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.767.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.768.
We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.769.
We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.770.
We learn by teaching.771.
We must learn to walk before we can run.772.
We pay when old for the excesses of youth.773.
Weave in faith and God will find the thread.774.
What can't be cured, must be endured.775.
What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting.776.
What must be, must be.777.
What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.778.
What you don't know can't hurt you.779.
What's done cannot be undone.780.
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.