|
|
Dirty water does not wash clean.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
|
Dirty water will quench fire.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
|
Discover not your silent money (i.e. your hoarded money) to
anybody.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
|
Discreet stops make speedy journeys.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
|
Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
|
Discretion is the better part of valor.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
|
Disease is soon shaken
By physic soon taken.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
|
Diseases are the interest of pleasures.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
|
Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Madagasy)
|
Disputing and borrowing cause grief and sorrowing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
|
Dissemblers oftener deceive themselves than others.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
|
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
|
Distant hills look beautiful; near ones are ugly.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Goan)
|
Distracted by what is far away, he does not see his nose.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Malagasy)
|
Distrust is poison to friendship.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
|
Divide and rule. [Win by creating disunion among your
adversaries.]
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
|
Do as I say, not as I do.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
|
Do as others do, and few will mock you.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
|
Do as you would be done by.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
|
Do as you would be done unto.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
|
Do business best when the wind's in the west.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
|
Do chattering monkeys mimic men,
Or we, turned apes, out-monkey them?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
|
Do good and throw it in the sea.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Palestinian)
|
Do good if you expect to receive it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Palestinian)
|
Do good to a knave, and pray God he may not do the same to thee.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
|
Do good, and care not to whom.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian, Portuguese)
|
Do ill, and expect the like.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
|
Do little things now; so shall big things come to thee by and by
asking to be done.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Persian)
|
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Persian)
|
Do not abstain from sowing for fear of the pigeons.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
|
Do not add legs to the snake after you have finished drawing it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
|
Do not all you can; spend not all you have; believe not all you
hear; and tell not all you know.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
|
Do not allow the sheep to die for a halfpenny of tar.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
|
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will be like
him yourself.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
|
Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not
vainly regret what is already past.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
|
Do not ask questions of fairy tales.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Jewish)
|
Do not bathe if there is no water.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Shan)
|
Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
|
Do not be like a miser who saves for those who will bury him.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Malagasy)
|
Do not buy a carrier's ass, or marry an innkeeper's daughter.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
|
Do not buy either the moon or the news, for in the end they will
both come out.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabic)
|
Do not call the forest that shelters you a jungle.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Ghanaian)
|
Do not call to a dog with a whip in your hand.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (African)
|
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were
born in another time.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Hebrew)
|
Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Arabian)
|
Do not cut the bough you are sitting on.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Romanian)
|
Do not despise an insignificant enemy, nor a slight wound.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
|
Do not divide the spoil till the victory is won.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
|
Do not drink from a well and throw a stone into it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Palestinian)
|
Do not drink poison to quench a thirst.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Palestinian)
|
