Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Do not judge your fellow man until you
have stood in his place.
Do not judge your friend until you stand in
his place.
Do not judge your neighbor until you walk
two moons in his moccasins.
Do not keep secret from your friend what
your enemy already knows.
Do not keep your tongue under your belt.
Do not kick away the canoe which helped
you to cross the river.
Do not kill an animal unless you intend to
eat it.
Do not laugh at the fallen; you may find
slippery roads ahead.
Do not lean on a worm-eaten staff.
Do not leave to the morning the business of
the evening.
Do not leave todays homework for tomor-
row.
Do not leave your host’s house throwing
mud in his well.
Do not lend your money to a great man.
Do not lengthen the quarrel while there is
an opportunity of escaping.
Do not let grass grow on the path of
friendship.
Do not let the cat watch over the bacon.
Do not let what you cannot do tear from
your hands what you can.
Do not light a fire that you cannot yourself
put out.
Do not look at a visitor’s face but at his
stomach.
Do not look at gift horse’s mouth.
Do not look at the coat, but at what is under
the coat.
Do not look at the tooth of a gift horse.
Do not look for further good from good.
Do not look for good from good.
Do not look for something, where it isn’t.
Do not look for wrong and evil.
Do not look to the peaceful man for cudgels.
Do not look where the harvest is plentiful,
but where the people are kind.
Do not look where you fell, but where you
slipped.
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Do not lose honour through fear.
Do not make an elephant out of a fly.
Do not make jokes that cost more than a
ruble.
Do not make me kiss and you will not make
me sin.
Do not make the dress before the child is
born.
Do not make two devils of one.
Do not make yourself so big, you are not so
small.
Do not measure another man's coat on your
body.
Do not measure others by your own
yardstick.
Do not measure the timbers for your house
in the forest.
Do not measure the wolf’s tail till he is dead.
Do not measure up the wood before the tree
is cut down.
Do not meet troubles half-way.
Do not mend your neighbor's fence before
seeing to your own.
Do not mistake a goats beard for a fine
stallion’s tail.
Do not neglect the undoing for the setting.
Do not offer salt or brains.
Do not only point out the way, but lead the
way.
Do not plant a tree with its root upward.
Do not play with fire, you will burn
yourself.
Do not praise yourself when going of to
battle going into battle; praise yourself
coming out of battle.
Do not pretend to be a white fowl.
Do not prophesy to the man who can see
further than you can.
Do not protect yourself by a stone wall, but
rather by your family.
Do not protect yourself with a fence, but
rather by your friends.
Do not push the river, it will flow by itself.
Do not put a grass turban on my head.