Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Daffing dow nothing.
Dally not with women or money.
Damage suffered makes you knowing, but
seldom rich.
Dame dein warily.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
Dance as if no one were watching. Sing as if
no one were listening. And live every
day as if it were your last.
Dance in the streets you will learn to play
music.
Dance in the sun, but turn your back to the
clouds.
Dance to the tune that is played.
Dance, father, people’s eyes don’t eat, they
just stare.
Dancing at the carnival, baptizing on All
Saints Day.
Dancing depends on the parents.
Dancing the drum will be done where the
drum is.
Dancing was first started by a madman.
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
Danger begets caution.
Danger can never by overcome without
taking risks.
Danger is next neighbour to security.
Danger past, God forgotten.
Dangerous enemies will meet again in
narrow streets.
Dare to be true; nothing can need a lie.
Darg-flea tell him pickeny him mustn’t say
him dead till him ketch pon finger nail.
Daringly dared, half of it won.
Dark days and storms heighten the
appreciation of sunshine.
Dark ground gives good bread; white
ground is quickly tired.
Darker than the night.
Darkness and night are mothers of thought.
Darkness conceals the hippopotamus.
Darkness does not bite.
Darkness is the owl’s desire.
Darkness lies one inch ahead.
Darkness reigns at the foot of the lighthouse.
Daughter of a cat, if she doesn’t bite she
scratches.
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Daughter, I'm telling you. O daughter-in-
law, listen to it.
Daughter-in-law hates mother-in-law.
Daughters and dead fish are no keeping
wares.
Daughters are brittle ware.
Daughters are easy to rear, but hard to
marry.
Daughters are no better than crows.
Daughters may be seen but not heard.
Daughters pay no debts.
Dawn does not come to awaken a man a
second time.
Dawn does not come twice to awaken a
man.
Dawn is the friend of the muses.
Dawted bairns do bear little.
Day and night cannot dwell together.
Day doesn’t come without night following.
Day has its eyes, night has its ears.
Day will not break thanks to the cackling of
the chicken.
Daybreak daybreak, they are not all the
same. (Things are not the same all of the
time.)
Daybreak, mouth open.
Daylicht will peep throu a smaa hole.
Daylight follows a dark night.
Daylight sho t’rough lilly keyhole.
Daylight will come, though the cock do not
crow.
Daylight will peep through a small hole.
Days always change. (there is ups and
downs in life)
Days are countries.
Days are many, what is one is life.
Days are more than an animal’s hair.
Days cannot be tied in a bundle.
Days end with sleeping. (Don’t worry if
things are being delayed, be patient.)
De berry don’ drop too far from de tree.
De bes a field mus’ hab weed.
De devil does find work for evil hands to
do.