A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

webs see when SPIDER webs unite, they can tie up a lion.
wed see BETTER wed over the mixen than over the moor.
One WEDDING brings another
Similar to one FUNERAL makes many, the idea in this case being that the social gathering of the bride’s and groom’s families and friends is likely to result in other romantic attachments.

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  1634 M. PARKER in Roxburghe Ballads (1880) III. 54 ‘Tis said that one wedding produceth another. 1713 GAY Wife of Bath I. i. One Wedding, the Proverb says, begets another. 1885 c. H. SPURGEON Salt-Cellars I. 88 Bridesmaids may soon be made brides. One wedding.. brings on another. 1929 S. T. WARNER True Heart 1. 54 Cheer up, Suke! I dare say you’ll get a boy in time—they do say one wedding brings another. 1957 A. THIRKELL Double Affair i. But when he said ‘One marriage always brings on another, Mrs. Hubback,’ I slapped his face with a nice bit of cod’s tail. ■ weddings
  

WEDLOCK is a padlock

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  1678 J. RAY English Proverbs (ed. 2) 56 Wedlock is a padlock. 1821 BYRON Don Juan (1857) v. clviii. Thus in the East they are extremely strict, And wedlock and a padlock mean the same. 1950 C. E. VULLIAMY Henry Plumdew 211 Wedlock is a padlock, says our proverb. ■ marriage
  

Wednesday see Monday’s CHILD is fair of face.
weed see ILL weeds grow apace.
weeding see ONE year’s seeding makes seven years’ weeding.
week see if you would be HAPPY for a week take a wife.
weep see LAUGH and the world laughs with you.
weeper see FINDERS keepers (losers weepers).
welcome see when all FRUIT fails, welcome haws.
WELL begun is half done
Cf. PLATO Laws 753e'rz'.' a';-..™.- ih^ »<."•<;.• .>;•:;,, proverbially it is
said that theeginning is the halfof every task; HORACE Epistles I. ii. 40 dimidium facti qui coepit habet, he who has made a beginning, has half done.

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  c 1415 Middle English Sermons (EETS) 148 The wise man seth that halfe he hath don that wel begynneth is werke. 1542 N. UDALL Erasmus’ Apophthegms 1. 16 Laertius ascrybeth to hym [Socrates] this saiyng also: to haue well begoone is a thyng halfe dooen. 1616 J. WITHALS Dict. (rev. ed.) 555 Well begun, is halfe done. 1703 P. A. MOTTEUX Don Quixote IV. xli. Let me.. get.. ready for our Journey. .. ‘Twill be soon done, and A Business once begun, you know, is half ended. 1883 C. S. BURNE Shropshire Folklore 273 They also account it very unlucky to give trust [credit] for the first article sold. ‘Well begun is half done,’ is evidently their principle. 1907 A. MACLAREN Acts I. 176 Satan spoils many a well-begun work. ..Well begun is half—but only half—ended. 1981 P. O‘DONNELL Xanadu Talisman iv. The nannie-like proverbs .. Well begun is half done, The early bird catches the worm. "beginnings and endings