Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
The day your horse dies and your money's
gone, your relatives change into
strangers.
The days follow each other and are not
alike.
The dead add their strength and counsel to
the living. The dead add their strength
and counsel to the living.
The dead and the absent have no friends.
The dead are among us.
The dead are not seen in the company of the
living.
The dead are soon forgotten.
The dead are the best counsellors.
The dead cannot come to kinsmen's aid.
The dead do not know the value of white
sheets.
The dead in heaven is too happy to grieve
for indignities to his corpse; the dead in
hell has too much else to grieve for.
The dead know the price of wood.
The dead man doesn't know the value of his
coffin.
The dead man's heirs are many, but not his
brothers.
The dead open the eyes of the living.
The dead to his burial ground, and the
living to his fooling around.
The dead will go to the village where the
cock doesn't crow.
The dead with the dead, and the living with
the living.
The deaf does not listen, but invents well.
The deaf laugh twice.
The dearer the child, the sharper must be
the rod.
The dearest child of all is the dead one.
The dearest son is the grandson.
The death of a man doesn't make his wives
men.
The death of an elderly man is like a
burning library.
The death of not a relative is a wedding.
Compared to a death of a relative.
The death of one - the bread of the other.
The death of one person means bread for
another.
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The death of the wolves is the safety of the
sheep.
The death that will kill a man begins as an
appetite.
The death throes of an elephant are not so
annoying as a living flea.
The debts go to the next heir.
The deceitful have no friends.
The deceived sheep that went for wool and
came back shorn.
The deep sea can be fathomed, but who
knows the hearts of men?
The deeper the waters are, the more still
they run.
The deepest well can also be drained.
The deil made souters sailors that can
neither steer nor row.
The deities of one age are the bywords of the
next.
The delicacy of the feast is the learned guest.
The depth of a well is known when it is dry.
The descent to hell is easy.
The deserter is the brother of the murderer.
The desire is the father of the thought.
the destiny of a coward comes from over
him.
The destroyer of a country is a citizen of that
country.
The devel you know is better than the angel
you hadly know.
The developments have led to the breaking
if bread.
The devil always paints himself black, but
we always see him rose-colored.
The devil always shits in the same place (the
criminal always returns to the scene of
the crime).
The devil always takes back his gifts.
The devil always tends to his own business.
The devil can make a pot but he can't make
a lid.
The devil can quote Scripture for his own
ends.
The devil can quote Scripture to his own
advantage.