Proverbs and sayings ( letter d )

Death is the grand leveller
Death pays all debts
Death when it comes will have no denial
Debt is the worst poverty
Deeds, not words
Delays are dangerous
Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies
Diligence is the mother of success (good luck)
Discretion is the better part of valour
Diseases are the interests of pleasures
Divide and rule
Do as you would be done by
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you
Dog does not eat dog
Dog eats dog
Dogs that put up many hares kill none
Doing is better than saying
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you
Don’t burn your bridges behind you
Don’t change horses in midstream
Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched
Don’t cross the bridges before you come to them
Don’t have thy cloak to make when it begins to rain
Don’t keep a dog and bark yourself
Don’t let the bastards grind you down
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Don’t put new wine into old bottles
Don’t rock the boat
Don’t sell the bear’s skin before you’ve caught it
Don’t spoil the ship for a ha’pworth of tar
Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you
Don’t try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs
Don’t try to walk before you can crawl
Don’t upset the apple-cart
Don’t whistle (halloo) until you are out of the wood
Don’t worry, be happy
Dot your i’s and cross your t’s
Doubt is the beginning not the end of wisdom
Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed
Drive the nail that will go
Drunken days have all their tomorrow
Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals
Dumb dogs are dangerous


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Proverbs and sayings ( letter d )