Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
De dismounts the tent-poles.
De hen dat cackle lay de egg.
De higher de monkey climb, de more he
does show he tail.
De higher monkey climb de more him
expose.
De longer yuh live, de more yuh does hear.
De more yuh look de less yuh see.
De more yuh peep, de less yuh see.
De nearer de bone, de sweeter de meat.
De same knife stick goat stick sheep.
De sea en’ get nuh back door.
De tongue dat buy yuh does sell yuh.
De tune you playing no de one I dancing.
Dead and marriage makes term-day.
Dead at the one door, and heirship at the
other.
Dead dogs bite not.
Dead dogs don’t bite.
Dead flies cause the ointment of the
apothecary to send forth a stinking
savour.
Dead horses can’t kick.
Dead is the man who did things right, the
successor is doing things without
planning.
Dead lions do not roar.
Dead man can’ run from ‘e coffin.
Dead man is hard to wake.
Dead men bites not.
Dead men don’t bite.
Dead men have no friends.
Dead men tell no tales.
Dead news, like dead love, has no phoenix
in its ashes.
Dead songbirds make a sad meal.
Dead though the oil-palm may be, the
maggot in it lives on.
Dead with tea and dead without it.
Deal with the faults of others as gently as
with your own.
Deal with your friends as if they will
become your enemies tomorrow, and
deal with your enemies as if they will
become your friends tomorrow.
Dear God: You do such wonderful things
for complete strangers; why not for me?
Dear is cheap, and cheap is dear.
Dear physic always does good, if not to the
patient, at least to the apothecary.
Dearness gluts.
Dearth foreseen never came.
Death always comes too early or too late.
Death and bad luck, you take them with you
wherever you go.
Death and drink-draining are near
neighbours.
Death and justice affect everyone equally.
Death and marriage make term-days.
Death and marriages make changes.
Death and taxes may be hard to beat.
Death answers before it is asked.
Death brings to a level spades and sceptres.
Death cancels everything but truth.
Death carries on its shoulders a heavy Tsar
just as easily as a light beggar.
Death closes all doors.
Death considers not the fairest forehead.
Death defies the doctor.
Death devours lambs as well as sheep.
Death does not blow a trumpet.
Death does not come free of charge, for it
costs us our life.
Death does not knock on the door.
Death does not notify. (The day of dying is
not known.)
Death does not sound a trumpet.
Death does not take the old but the ripe.
Death don’t see no difference ‘tween the big
house and the cabin.
Death fiddles and we dance.
Death finds everyone and the earth renews
itself.
Death has its advantages too, it benifits
those who inherit.
Death has no modesty.
Death has the key to open the miser’s chest.
Death is a black camel that lies down at
every door. Sooner or later you must ride
the camel.
Death is a black camel which kneels at every
man’s gate.
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