A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

white see also it doesn’t matter if a CAT is black or white.. ; FEBRUARY fill dyke, be it black or be it white; TWO blacks don’t make a white.
whole see the HALF is better than the whole; HALF the truth is often a whole lie.
whore see ONCE a whore, always a whore.
wife see a BLIND man’s wife needs no paint; CAESAR’S wife must be above suspicion; a DEAF husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple; if you would be HAPPY for a week take a wife; the HUSBAND is always the last to know; my SON is my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter’s my daughter all the days of her life; he that will THRIVE must first ask his wife.
A WILFUL man must have his way

• 
  1816 SCOTT Antiquary I. vi. A wilful man must have his way. 1907 W. DE MORGAN Alice-for-Short xxxvii. ‘A wilful man will have his way,’ says Peggy, laughing. . .Alice replies: ‘Never mind!’ 1931 J. BUCHAN Blanket of Dark xii. ‘Take one of my men with you.’ .. He shook his head. .. ‘A wilful man must have his way,’ she said. ■obstinacy
  

WILFUL waste makes woeful want
The connection between waste and want predates the present form of this proverb, e.g. 1576 R. EDWARDS Paradise of Dainty Devices 88 For want is nexte to waste, and shame doeth synne ensue.

• 
  1721 J. KELLY Scottish Proverbs 353 Wilful waste makes woeful want. 1866 GASKELL Wives & Daughters II. xxix. Now young folks go off to Paris, and think nothing of the cost: and it’s well if wilful waste don’t make woeful want before they die. 1946 ‘R. FINNEGAN’ Lying Ladies vi. ‘Well, do you want the drink or not?’.. Regan.. emptied his glass and shoved forward. ‘Willful waste makes woeful want,’ he declared. ■ action and consequence; waste
  

He that WILL not when he may, when he will he shall have nay

• 
  a 1000 in Anglia (1889) XI. 388 Nu sceal relc man efsten, thret he to gode gecerre tha hwile the he muge, thelreste, gyf he nu nelle tha hwile the he muge, eft thone he wyle, he ne mreig [Now shall each man hasten to turn to God while he may, lest if he will not now while he may, later when he will, he may not]. 1303 R. BRUNNE Handlyng Synne (EETS) 1. 4795 He that wyl nat when he may, He shal nat, when he wyl. c 1450 in Brown & Robbins Index of Middle English Verse (1943) 186 He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay [denial]. 1624 BURTON Anatomy of Melancholy (ed. 2) III. ii. They omit oportunities. .. He that will not when he may, When he will he shall haue nay. 1893 R. L. STEVENSON Catriona xix. That young lady, with whom I so much desired to be alone again, sang.. ‘He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.’ 1935 N. MITCHISON We have been Warned III. 297 ‘She that will not when she may, When she will she shall have nay.’ Aren’t you feeling a bit like that? 1958 B. PYM Glass of Blessings xi. ‘It was a rather pretty little box, just the kind of thing you like. ..’ ‘I know,’ I said. ‘“If you will not when you may, when you will you shall have nay.”’ ^opportunity, missed