Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Don’t trust your wife until she has borne
you ten sons.
Don’t trust Yridians who bring gifts.
Don’t try to buy fish in the Dry Towns.
Don’t try to cover the stone with a quilt.
Don’t try to fly before you have wings.
Don’t try to get blood from a locust; God
didn’t put it in there.
Don’t try to make predictions, especially
those concerning the future.
Don’t try to make someone hate the person
he loves, for he will still go on loving,
but he will hate you.
Don’t try to make yourself a land baron at
the turn of the river.
Don’t try to run before you can walk.
Don’t try to sell pumpkins to a gardener.
Don’t try to walk before you can crawl.
Don’t underestimate the determination of a
quiet person.
Don’t underestimate the wisdom of
ancestors.
Don’t undermine my silence, its got reason;
don’t rate it, it as got no scale.
Don’t undo your bootlaces until you have
seen the river.
Don’t undress a saint to dress the other.
Don’t upset the apple cart.
Don’t use a lot where a little will do.
Don’t use an axe to do embroidery.
Don’t use an axe to embroider.
Don’t use oiled paper to wrap up fire.
Don’t use up your arrows before you go to
battle.
Don’t use your hairdryer in the shower, you
prat.
Don’t use your teeth when you can untie the
knot with your fingers.
Don’t value a gem by what it is set in.
Don’t visit auctions if you have no money.
Don’t vote for politicians, it only encourages
them.
Don’t wait for an anthill to build up in your
mushroom better attack its origin sooner
than later.
Don’t wait for dead mens shoes.
Don’t wait for luck. Create your own
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happiness.
Don’t wake the bear that sleeps.
Don’t wake up trouble while it sleeps
quietly.
Don’t walk behind me; i may not lead. Don’t
walk in front of me; I may not follow.
walk beside me that we may be as one.
Don’t want others to know what you have
done? Better not have done it anyway.
Don’t wash your dirty linen in public.
Don’t wash your dirty linen in public; It is
an ill bird that fouls its own nest.
Don’t waste good iron for nails or good men
for soldiers.
Don’t waste too many stones on one bird.
Don’t water your friend’s garden when
yours is full of weeds.
Don’t weep over spilled milk.
Don’t worry about biting off more than you
can chew. Your mouth is probably a
whole lot bigger’n you think.
Don’t worry about the weather or the
government.
Don’t worry if people call you ordinary,
only if you are ordinary.
Don’t worry if you borrow, but worry if you
lend.
Don’t yoke the plough before the horses.
Don’t’ smash the cooking pot because of not
having teeth. (Don’t destroy things that
others can use because you are jealous.)
Donated vinegar is sweeter than honey.
Done by oneself is well done.
Done in by his own trade like a water
merchant in the rain.
Donkey’s lips do not fit in with a horse’s
mouth.
Donkey’s lips don’t fit onto a horse’s mouth.
Donkeys and women, beat them with a
stick, to keep them at task.
Donkeys only come to the court to carry
bags.
Don't approach a goat from the front, a
horse from the back, or a fool from any
side.
Don't ask questions of fairy tales.