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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Do not wade where you see no bottom.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
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Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you
wrong but yourself.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Native American Pima)
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Do right and fear no man.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Native American Pima)
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Do unto others as you would be done unto.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Native American Pima)
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Do unto others as you would they should do unto you.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Native American Pima)
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Do well and have well.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Do well the little things now; so shall great things come to thee
by and by asking to be done.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Persian)
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Do what I say well, and not what I do ill.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Do what the friar says, and not what he does.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Do what thou doest. (Age quod agis.)
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Do what you ought, come what may.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French, Italian)
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Do when ye may, or suffer ye the nay, in love 'tis the way.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (English)
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Do you carry the trough, husband, and I will carry the sieve,
which is as heavy as the devil.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Do you speak English? (Meaning, Have you got any money?)
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Do you want better bread than wheaten?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Do you want to buy cheap? Buy of a needy fool.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Do you want to see a wolf with young (i.e. an insatiable
plunderer)? Marry your daughter.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
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Doctor Luther's shoes do not fit every parish priest.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Does the left hand chop off the right?
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Darkovan)
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Does your neighbour love you? Lend him a sequin.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Dog does not eat dog.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Dog won't eat dog.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Dogs bark at hose they don't know.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Dogs bark, but the caravan goes on.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Dogs do not dislike poor families.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Dogs have so many friends because they wag their tails, not their
tongues.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Dogs have teeth in all countries.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Dogs that bark much don't bite.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Doing nothing is doing ill.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Doing nothing teaches doing ill.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Dominies come for your wine, and officers for your daughters.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Don't ask a dog to judge between a pillar and a tree.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Darkovan)
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Don't bargain for fish which are still in the water.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Indian)
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Don't be a baker if your head is made of butter.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
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Don't be a thief and you won't fear the king.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Afghan)
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Don't be frightened at high-sounding words.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
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Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest
you be spewed out.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Jewish)
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Don't believe in the saint unless he works miracles.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Don't believe what you see, husband, but only what I tell you.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Don't bet more than you can afford to lose.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Don't bite off more than you can chew.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
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Don't bite till you know whether it is bread or a stone.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
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Don't budge, if you sit at ease.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
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Don't build a new ship out of old wood.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
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Don't buy a cat in a sack.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch, German)
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Don't buy a pig in a poke.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
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Don't call the alligator a big-mouth till you have crossed the
river.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Belizean)
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