Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
A curse will not strike out an eye, unless
the fist go with it.
A cursed cur should be short tied.
A cursed horse has a shining coat.
A custom wears a shirt of iron.
A customary railer is the devil’s bagpipe,
which the world danceth after.
A cutting word is worse than a bowstring, a
cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue
does not.
A daily guest is a great thief in the kitchen.
A dainty stomach beggars the purse.
A dancer will not become crippled for
dancing calls for grace.
A danger escaped is no guarantee for the
future.
A danger foreseen is half avoided.
A day after the fair.
A day in prison is longer than a thousand
years at large.
A day is long, but a lifetime is short.
A day is lost if one has not laughed.
A day of fasting is the eve of a feast.
A day of grief lasts longer than a month of
joy.
A day of hunger is not starvation.
A day of peace in times of stress is like a
thousand days in paradise.
A day of reading is a day of gain; a day
without reading is ten days of loss.
A day of sorrow is longer than a month of
joy.
A day of traveling will bring a basketful of
learning.
A day to come seems longer than a year
that’s gone.
A day without bread lasts long.
A day without work can yield a night with-
out sleep.
A day you believe is not bad, is the one that
becomes bad.
A day’s work—getting started.
A day-old pigeon cannot fly over a moun-
tain pass.
A dead body cannot urge over how it
should be placed in the grave.
A dead cherry tree will not blossom.
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A dead cock never crows.
A dead elephant cannot be covered by a
lotus leaf.
A dead enemy is as good as a cold friend.
A dead man does not know where his
grave is.
A dead man does not make war.
A dead man does not speak.
A dead man feels no cold.
A dead man has neither relations nor
friends.
A dead man is mourned seven days; a fool,
his lifetime.
A dead man pays no debts.
A dead man’s will is the mirror of his life.
A dead mouse feels no cold.
A dead person is not asked for a shroud.
A dead songbird gives us no meat.
A deadly sin can’t be concealed.
A deaf auditor makes a crazy answerer.
A deaf husband and a blind wife are
always a happy couple.
A deaf man heard how a mute told that a
blind man has seen how a cripple
walked.
A deaf man may not have heard the thun-
der but he surely will see the rain.
A deal is a deal . . . until a better one comes
along.
A dealer in onions is a good judge of
scallions.
A dealer in rubbish sounds the praises of
rubbish.
A debacle demolishes the will.
A debt is always new.
A debt is still unpaid, even if forgotten.
A debt may get moldy, but it never decays.
A decision made at night may be changed
in the morning.
A deer is an elder to its family.
A deer tethered with a golden chain can
escape to the forest to eat grass.
A defeated wrestler is not tired of
wrestling.