Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Desperate diseases must have desperate
remedies.
Desperate evils require desperate remedies.
Desperate ills require desperate remedies.
Desperate maladies require desperate
remedies.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Desperation is the mistress of the
impossible.
Despise learning and make everyone pay for
your ignorance.
Despise not a small wound or a poor
kinsman.
Despise not a small wound, a poor kinsman,
or an humble enemy.
Despise not a snail for its slow and
struggling movement; it has a
destination and with time it shall arrive.
Despise not the weak: the gnat stings the
eyes of the lion.
Despise school and remain a fool.
Despise your enemy and you will soon be
beaten.
Despite the beauty of the moon, sun and the
stars, the sky also has a threatening
thunder and striking lightening.
Despite your bark, you’ll be eaten.
Destiny leads the willing but drags the
unwilling.
Destroy a country, but its mountains and
rivers remain.
Destroy the lion while he is but a whelp.
Destroying an Empire to win a war is no
victory. And ending a battle to save an
Empire is no defeat.
Deviate an inch, lose a thousand miles.
Devil take the hindmost
Devil takes the hindmost.
Devils have more than twelve apostles.
Devils live in beautiful mansions.
Devils live in quiet pond.
Devils must be driven out with devils.
Dharma, when protected, protects.
Di daakes' part a di night, a when diay soon
light.
Diamond cut diamond.
Diamonds come in small packages.
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Dicing, drabbing and drinking bring men to
destruction.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which
they dare not dismount.
Did hogs feed here or did Lithuanians have
a feast here?
Did ye ever fit counts wi’ him?
Did you ever hear an ass play on a harp?
Die with your boots on.
Diet cures more than doctors.
Diet cures more than the lancet.
Differences between husband and wife
should not be aired in the marketplace.
Different background means different
thinking.
Different colors, one people.
Different culture means different custom.
Different fields, different grasshoppers;
different seas, different fish.
Different flowers look good to different
people.
Different men have different opinions, some
prefer apples, some onions.
Different men like different things.
Different people have different personality.
Different pursuits suit different ages.
Different sores must have different salves.
Different strokes for different folks.
Different times different manners.
Differing in words, not in reality.
Difficulties make you a jewel.
Difficulties relate only to necessity.
Dig a well every day to drink water every
day.
Dig a well then close the well, but do not fire
a worker.
Dig the hoe in well in the vineyard and pull
out the bad growth and the weed.
Dig the well before you are thirsty.
Dignity and an empty sack is worth the
sack.
Dignity does not consist in a silk dress.
Dignity is one thing that can’t be preserved
in alcohol.
Diligence brings delight.
Diligence is a great teacher.
Diligence is the beginning of brilliance.