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| Proverb - D
Danger is next neighbor to security.Dangers are overcome by dangers.Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares.Dawted daughters make daidling wives.Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour.Dead mice feel no cold.Death and marriage make term day.Death cancels everything but truth.Death is a black camel which kneels at every man's gate.Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.Death is the grand leveller.Death is the great leveller.Death keeps no calendar.Death pays all debts.Death said to the man with his throat cut, "How ugly you look."Death squares all accounts.Death's day is doom's day.Deaths foreseen come not.Debt is better than death.Debt is worst than poverty.Debtors are liars.Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure.Deceiving a deceiver is no knavery.Deeds are males and words are females.Deem the best till the truth is tried out.Deep rivers move with silent majesty, shallow brooks are noisy.Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.Defer not till to-morrow what may be done to-day.Deliberate before you act.Deliberate slowly, execute quickly.Deliberating is not delaying.Denying a fault doubles it.Dependence is a poor trade.Desert and reward seldom keep company.Desire of glory is the last garment that even wise men put off.Desires are nourished by delays.Despair gives courage to a coward.Desperate cuts must have desperate cures.Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.Desperate maladies require desperate remedies.Despise not a small wound or a poor kinsman.Despise school and remain a fool.Destroy the lion while he is but a whelp.Devil take the hindmost.Diamond cuts diamond.Diet cures more than doctors.Diet cures more than the lancet.Different men have different opinions;
Some like apples, some onions.Diffidence is the right eye of prudence.Dig your well before you're thirsty.Diligence is the mother of good luck.Dinners cannot be long where dainties want.Dirty water will quench fire.Disassembled sin is double wickedness.Discreet stops make speedy journeys.Discretion is the better part of valor.Disease is soon shaken
By physic soon taken.Diseases are the interest of pleasures.Dissemblers oftener deceive themselves than others.Distance lends enchantment to the view.Do and undo, the day is long enough.Do as I say, not as I do.Do as most men do, and men will speak well of you.Do as you would be done by.Do as you're bidden and you'll never bear blame.Do business best when the wind's in the west.Do chattering monkeys mimic men,
Or we, turned apes, out-monkey them?Do evil and look for the like.Do good if you expect to receive it.Do it well that thou mayest not do it twice.Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?Do not all you can; spend not all you have; believe not all you hear; and tell not all you know.Do not allow the sheep to die for a halfpenny of tar.Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like him yourself.Do not drink poison to quench a thirst.Do not insult the crocodile until you've crossed the river.Do not judge your friend until you stand in his place.Do not keep a dog and bark yourself.Do not look to the peaceful man for cudgels.Do not make me kiss, and you will not make me sin.Do not meet troubles half-way.Do not put all your eggs in one basket.Do not rake up old grievances.Do not spur a free horse.Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles.Do not throw a stone at the mouse and break the precious vase.Do not throw pearls to swine.Do on the hill as you would do in the hall.Do right and fear no man.Do the likeliest and hope the best.Do unto others as you would be done unto.Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.Do what thou oughtest and come what can come.Do wrong once and you'll never hear the end of it.Dog does not eat dog.Dog won't eat dog.Dogs bark as they are bred.Dogs bark before they bite.Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.Dogs have so many friends because they wag their tails, not their tongues.Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand.Dogs that bark at a distance never bite.Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as to your bread.Doing nothing is doing ill.Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.Don't bet more than you can afford to lose.Don't bite off more than you can chew.Don't carry all your eggs in one basket.Don't cast your pearls before swine.Don't change horses in mid stream.Don't change horses in midstream.Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.Don't cross the bridge until you come to it.Don't cry before you are hurt.Don't cry before you're hurt.Don't cry fish before they're caught.Don't cry till you are out of the wood.Don't draw another's bow, don't ride another's horse, don't mind another's business.Don't get mad, get even.Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.Don't guild the lily.Don't just cross a river--cross it bearing fire!.Don't let the bastards grind you down.Don't let the cat out of the bag.Don't let your horse ride you.Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.Don't make a toil of pleasure.Don't make waves.Don't pick a wasp out of a cream-jug.Don't put all you eggs in one basket.Don't put new wine into old bottles.Don't reject the good together with the bad.Don't rock the boat.Don't run too far, you will have to return the same distance.Don't shit on your own doorstep.Don't shut the barn door after the horse is stolen.Don't speak to the man at the helm.Don't spoil the ship for a halfpenny-worth of tar.Don't take any wooden nickles.Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.Don't that just butter your grits.Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.Don't throw out your dirty water until you get in fresh.Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.Don't try to run before you can walk.Don't try to walk before you can crawl.Don't use a lot where a little will do.Don't waste too many stones on one bird.Double charging will break a cannon.Doubt makes the mountain which faith can move.Doubtful the die, and dire the cast!Draff is good enough for swine.Draw not thy bow before thy arrow be fixed.Drawn wells are seldom dry.Drawn wells have sweetest water.Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage.Dreams go by contraries.Dree out the inch as you have done the span.Dress makes the man.Drift is as band as unthrift.Drink only with the duck.Drink wine, and have the gout; drink none, and have the gout.Drive a rat into a corner, and he'll jump at you.Drive gently over the stones.Drive not a second nail till the first be clinched.Drive not too many ploughs at once, some will make foul work.Drive the nail that will go.Drop by drop the lake is drained.Drown not thyself to save a drowning man.Drumming is not the way to catch a hare.Drunken folks seldom take harm.Drunkenness makes some men fools, some beasts, and some devils.Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.Ducks quack loudly before a rain.Dumb folks get no lands.Dummy cannot lie. |
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