Blest is the bride the sun shines on.

Blind is the bookless man.

Blind men can judge no colours.

Blind men should not judge of colours.

Cats hide their claws.

Children are poor men's riches.

Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

Confession is the first step to repentance.

Craftiness must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Crooked logs make straight fires.

Danger and delight grow on one stalk.

Danger is next neighbor to security.

Death always comes too early or too late.

Death closes all doors.

Deeds are fruits, words are leaves.

Despair doubles our strength.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Desperate cuts must have desperate cures.

Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.

Discretion in speech is more important than eloquence.

Discretion is the better part of valor.

Disease is soon shaken By physic soon taken.

Diseases are the interest of pleasures.

Do not be in a hurry to tie what you cannot untie.

Do not halloo until you are out of the wood.