Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Don’t shut the barn door after the horse is
stolen.
Don’t sign a paper without reading it, or
drink water without seeing it.
Don’t sit among scoffers.
Don’t skin the bear before it’s been shot.
Don’t slaughter more pigs than you can salt.
Don’t sleep on the ground during those
months that are spelled with an r.
Don’t snap your fingers at the dogs before
you are out of the village.
Don’t spare expense on the wheat and the
flax.
Don’t speak my mouth, I shall have no
headache.
Don’t speak sweet words when your deeds
are of stone.
Don’t speak to the man at the helm.
Don’t speak unless you can improve on the
silence.
Don’t spend time with people who don’t re-
spect you.
Don’t spill blood until the raven has flown
over.
Don’t spit into the wind.
Don’t spoil a cool place under the hospitable
tree.
Don’t spoil the ship for a ha’porth of tar.
Don’t spoil the ship for a halfpenny-worth
of tar.
Don’t sprinkle salt on my wound.
Don’t spur a willing horse.
Don’t squat with your spurs on.
Don’t stand by the water and long for fish;
go home and weave a net.
Don’t start braiding your rope on a Monday
or a Friday.
Don’t start economizing when you are
down to your last dollar.
Don’t stay long when the husband is not at
home.
Don’t stay on the dew until the sun reaches
its highest.
Don’t step over a grave or you will soon die.
Don’t stick your nose where you are not
wanted.
Don’t stop a donkey that isn’t yours.
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Don’t stop sowing just because the birds ate
a few seeds.
Don’t stop the way of a bull or of a current
of air.
Don’t strike a flea on a tiger’s head.
Don’t suspect your employee. If one is
suspicious, don’t employ him.
Don’t swear off of beggary and jail.
Don’t swing on my gate if you don’t like it.
Don’t take a golden sword to cut a radish.
Don’t take a second mouthful before you
have swallowed the first.
Don’t take a slate off your own house to put
on your neighbor’s.
Don’t take advice from your enemy.
Don’t take another mouthful before you
have swallowed what is in your mouth.
Don’t take another mouthful before you
have swallowed what is in your mouth.
Don’t take any wooden nickels.
Don’t take every ill to the doctor, or every
quarrel to the lawyer, or every thirst to
the tavern.
Don’t take rich people as examples.
Don’t take seriously the cat who mourns for
a mouse.
Don’t take the straight path or the winding
path. Take the path your ancestors have
taken.
Don’t talk about a rope in the house of
someone whose father was hung.
Don’t talk about others, they won’t talk
about you.
Don’t talk Latin before the Franciscans.
Don’t talk too much, because your
ignorance is greater than your
knowledge.
Don’t talk too much, your ignorance exceeds
your knowledge.
Don’t talk with your mouth full.
Don’t teach fishes to swim.
Don’t teach the tiger cub to eat meat.
Don’t teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
Don’t tell a secret to anybody, unless you
want the whole world to know it.