Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Diligence is the mistress of success.
Diligence is the mother of good luck.
Diligence is the vehicle on the paths of
Mountains of Books; endurance is the
vessel on the courses of the Seas of
Learning.
Diligence the mother of goodluck.
Diligent work makes a skilful workman.
Dime is money, as the Dutchman says.
Dine with a friend but do not do business
with him.
Dine with a stranger but save love for your
family.
Dine with arrogance, sleep with shame.
Dinna gut yer fish till ye get them.
Dinna streetch yer airm farther than yer
sleeve’ll let ye.
Dios tarda pero no olvida – God delays but
doesn’t forget.
Dip the pitcher into the water enough and it
finally breaks.
Dip your paddle in and join the effort.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else
have your way.
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest
thing in the nicest way.
Dirt is dirtiest upon clean white linen.
Dirt is dirtiest upon the fairest spot.
Dirt parts company.
Dirt parts gude company.
Dirty clothes are washed in the backyard.
Dirty clothes one washes at home.
Dirty father, dirty son. (Children do what
their parents do.)
Dirty hands make clean money.
Dirty linen should be washed at home.
Dirty water does not wash clean.
Dirty water will quench fire.
Disappears like a fart into Sahara.
Disappears without trace.
Disappointment hurts more than pain.
Disasters never come alone.
Discipline awaits he who leaves his path.
Discord between the powerful is a fortune
for the poor.
Discord is less painful than loneliness.
Discouragement is the devil’s most valuable
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tool.
Discover a well before you are thirsty.
Discover not your silent money to anybody.
Discreet stops make speedy journeys.
Discretion in speech is more important than
eloquence.
Discretion is a way of hiding what you
cannot help.
Discretion is knowing how to hide that
which we cannot remedy.
Discretion is the better part of velour.
Disease and disasters come and go like rain,
but health is like the sun that illuminates
the entire village.
Disease is soon shaken by physic soon
taken.
Diseased genitals must keep to themselves.
Diseases are the interest of pleasures.
Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
Diseases are the visits of God.
Diseases come on horseback, but go away
on foot.
Diseases come on horseback, but steal away
on foot.
Disgrace is like the grain of a tree trunk –
time makes it bigger instead of erasing it.
Disgraced like a man whose own dog bites
him.
Disgraces are like cherries, one draws
another.
Dish and spoon cannot be without jingling.
Dismantle the bridge after crossing it.
Disorder brings about order.
Display one’s proficiency of axe in front of
the master carpenter.
Disputing and borrowing cause grief and
sorrowing.
Dissemblers oftener deceive themselves
than others.
Dissent and you will be known.
Distance is disaffection.
Distance is the best remedy against an evil-
disposed man.
Distance lends enchantment to the view.
Distance lends enchantment.
Distance plants enchantment.