Proverbs Beginning with D

1

Dead men don't bite.

bad

› 2

Dead men tell no tales

dead

› 3

Death is the grand leveler.

death

› 4

Death pays all debts.

death

› 5

Deeds, not words.

action

› 6

Delays are dangerous.

delay

› 7

Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.

situation

› 8

Devil take the hindmost

selfish

› 9

Diamond cuts diamond

cooperation

› 10

Die is cast.

change

› 11

Different strokes for different folks.

doing

› 12

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

luck

› 13

Dirty water will quench fire

lust

› 14

Discretion is the better part of valor.

caution

› 15

Diseases are the interests of pleasures.

pleasure

› 16

Distance lends enchantment to the view

distance

› 17

Divide and rule.

rule

› 18

Do as I say, not as I do

order

› 19

Do as you would be done by.

behaviour

› 20

Do not grieve that rose trees have thorns, better rejoice that thorny bushes bear roses,

optimism

› 21

Do not have too many irons in the fire

busy

› 22

Do not meet troubles halfway

problem

› 23

Do not ride the high horse.

advice

› 24

Do right and fear no man.

conscience

› 25

Dog does not eat dog.

crook

› 26

Dog eat dog

competition

› 27

Dogs of the same street bark alike.

behaviour

› 28

Doing is better than saying.

example

› 29

Don't cry before you're hurt

cry

› 30

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face

reaction

› 31

Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

downfall

› 32

Don't halloo till you are out of the wood

danger

› 33

Don't make a mountain out of a molehill

exaggeration

› 34

Dont't change horses in mid-stream

effort

› 35

Dont't get mad, get even.

retaliation

› 36

Don’t talk the talk if you can’t walk the walk.

boast

› 37

Don’t bite off more than you can chew.

responsibility

› 38

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

ingratitude

› 39

Don’t blow your own trumpet.

boast

› 40

Don’t cast pearls before swine.

appreciation

› 41

Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched.

haste

› 42

Don’t cross the bridge before you come to it.

difficulty

› 43

Don’t have your cloak to make when it begins to rain,

predict

› 44

Don’t judge a book by its cover.

appearance

› 45

Don’t keep a dog and bark yourself.

doing

› 46

Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.

income

› 47

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

gratefulness

› 48

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

action

› 49

Don’t put the cart before the horse.

order

› 50

Don’t sell the bear’s skin before you’ve caught it.

optimism

› 51

Don’t spoil the ship for half a penny’s worth of tar,

spoil

› 52

Don’t throw the baby with the bathwater.

discart

› 53

Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

problem

› 54

Don’t whistle until you are out of the wood.

problem

› 55

Dot your i’s and cross your t’s.

detail

› 56

Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.

time

› 57

Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage

dream

› 58

Drunken days have all their tomorrow.

price

› 59

Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals.

drunk

› 60

Dumb dogs are dangerous.

silliness

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