A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

WANTON kittens make sober cats

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  1732 T. FULLER Gnomologia no. 5415 Wanton [frolicsome] Kitlins may make sober old Cats. 1832 A. HENDERSON Scottish Proverbs 97 Wanton kittens make douce [sedate] cats. 1855 H. G. BOHN Hand-Book of Proverbs 551 Wanton kittens may make sober cats. 1975 J. O’FAOLAIN Women in Wall I. I was fleshy..in my youth. Carnal. But wanton kittens make sober cats. “youth
  

war see BUSINESS is war; COUNCILS of war never fight; all’s FAIR in love and war; when GREEK meets Greek, then comes the tug of war; if you want PEACE, you must prepare for war; TRUTH is the first casualty of war.
warling (one who is despised or disliked): see BETTER be an old man’s darling, than a young man’s slave.
warm see COLD hands, warm heart.
One does not WASH one’s dirty linen in public
It is unwise to publicize private disputes or scandals. The saying is very often used in the metaphorical phrase to wash one’s dirty linen in public. Cf. Fr. c’est en famille, ce n’estpas enpublique, qu’on lave son linge sale, one washes one’s dirty linen amongst the family, not in public.

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  1809 T. G. FESSENDEN Pills 45 The man has always had a great itch for scribbling, and has mostly been so fortunate as to procure somebody who pitied his ignorance, to ‘wash his dirty linen’. 1867 TROLLOPE Last Chronicle of Barset II. xliv. I do not like to trouble you with my private affairs;—there is nothing.. so bad as washing one’s dirty linen in public. 1886 E. J. HARDY How to be Happy though Married i. Married people.. should remember the proverb about the home-washing of soiled linen. 1942 ‘P. WENTWORTH’ Danger Point xlviii. The case.. will be dropped. .. There’s nothing to be gained by washing a lot of dirty linen in public. 1980 T. HOLME Neapolitan Steak 199 Her look raked him from head to toe. ‘One does not wash one’s Dirty Linen in Public, commissario.’ "discretion