Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Don’t let women who attract attention walk
behind you.
Don’t let yesterday use up too much of to-
day.
Don’t let your past dictate your future.
Don’t let your sorrow come higher than
your knees.
Don’t let your tongue cut your throat.
Don’t let your tongue or your paintbrush
wag your tail when they are making up
an inventory.
Don’t let your tongue say what your head
may have to pay for.
Don’t let yourself get far away from your
jackasses, women, and oxen.
Don’t lie down in low places, flood will take
you, don’t lie down in high places, wind
will take you.
Don’t limp before yuh lame.
Don’t listen to every word you hear.
Don’t live in a town where there are no
doctors.
Don’t lock the stable door after the horse is
stolen.
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
Don’t look a horse that was given to you in
the mouth.
Don’t look at the shape, look at the
character.
Don’t look at the tooth of a gift horse.
Don’t look at the visitor’s face but at his
stomach.
Don’t look back when you are walking
along the edge of a wall.
Don’t look for a sea when you can drown in
a puddle.
Don’t look for bad things in the good that
you do.
Don’t look for lice if you’re not itching.
Don’t look for more honor than your
learning merits.
Don’t look for speed in a cheap horse; be
content if it neighs.
Don’t look for what you can’t find.
Don’t look into the eyes of your lover, or
you will see what he has told many
women before.
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Don’t look where you fell, but where you
slipped.
Don’t loose hope no situation is permanent.
Don’t love the one who loves you, it’s
tyranny.
Don’t maintain a friendship with cops
because you’ll lose your wine and your
cigars.
Don’t make a doormat from a gift.
Don’t make a fence more expensive or more
important than what it is fencing.
Don’t make a goat your friend if your skirt
is made of plantation leaves, or else it
will strip you naked.
Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.
Don’t make a mouse of yourself, or else you
will be eaten by cats.
Don’t make a toil of pleasure.
Don’t make an oven of your cap or a garden
of your belly.
Don’t make excuses, make good.
Don’t make friends with monks and
soldiers.
Don’t make promises to the rich nor
withhold from the poor.
Don’t make sauce before catching fish.
Don’t make use of another’s mouth unless it
has been leant to you.
Don’t make waves.
Don’t make yourself poor to one who won’t
make you rich.
Don’t marry a girl who wants strawberries
in January.
Don’t marry a good-looking bride for you’ll
have to watch her.
Don’t marry a woman out of mercy.
Don’t marry for money, you can borrow it
cheaper.
Don’t marry without love, but don’t love
without reason.
Don’t measure a wolf’s tail until he is dead.
Don’t measure your neighbor’s honesty by
your own.
Don’t meddle in others’ affairs unless you
want your own nose scraped a little.
Don’t meddle with a family feud.
Don’t meet trouble halfway.