Alphabetical List. Proverbs and Quotes starting from D

Damage suffered makes you knowing, but seldom rich.

Danger can never be overcome without taking risks

Danger is next neighbor to security.

Danger passed, God forgotten.

Dead men tell no tales.

Death is the great leveler.

Death pays all debts.

Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.

Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.

Devil take the hindmost.

Diamond cuts diamond.

Diamonds are forever.

Different sores must have different salves.

Different strokes for different folk.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

Discretion is the better part of valor.

Discretion is the better part of valor.

Diseases come on horseback, but steal away on foot.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder.

Divide and rule.

Do as I say, and not as I do.

Do as you would be done by.

Do not bite off more than you can chew.

Do not bite the hand that feeds you.

Do not burn your bridges behind you.

Do not cast your pearls before swine.

Do not change horses in midstream.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Do not cross the bridge till you come to it.

Do not cry over spilt milk.

Do not cut off your nose to spite your face.

Do not in an instant what an age cannot recompense.

Do not keep a dog and bark yourself.

Do not let the bastards grind you down.

Do not look a gift horse in the mouth.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Do not make a mountain of a mole hill.

Do not meet troubles half-way.

Do not praise yourself while going into battle; praise yourself coming out of battle.

Do not put all your eggs in one basket.

Do not put new wine into old bottles.

Do not put the cart before the horse.

Do not rock the boat.

Do not search for a calf under an ox.

Do not spoil the ship for a ha'pworth of tar.

Do not teach your Grandmother to suck eggs

Do not throw pearls to swine.

Do not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Do not try to walk before you can crawl.

Do not upset the apple-cart.

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from a friends forehead.

Do not wash your dirty linen in public.

Do not wear out your welcome.

Do right and fear no man.

Do unto others as you would have done to you.

Doctors make the worst patients.

Dogs of the same street bark alike.

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.

Don’t burn your bridges before they’re crossed.

Don’t burn your bridges behind you.

Don’t cross the bridge till you come to it.

Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.

Don’t have too many irons in the fire.

Don’t keep a dog and bark yourself.

Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill.

Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.

Don’t put new wine into old bottles.

Don’t rock the boat.

Don’t shut the barn door after the horse is gone.

Don’t shut the gate after the horse has bolted.

Don’t spit into the wind.

Don’t spoil the ship for a ha’pworth of tar.

Don’t take your harp to the party.

Don’t teach your grandmother how to suck an egg.

Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Don’t upset the apple-cart.

Don't advertise: Tell it to a gossip.

Don't answer back.

Don't bark if you can't bite.

Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Don't blow your own trumpet.

Dont count the days, make the days count!

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Don't count your chickens before they're hatched.

Don't cross your bridges until you come to them.

Don't go off half-cocked.

Don't judge a book by its cover.

Don't knock on death's door, ring the doorbell and run.

Dont make love at the garden gate, love is blind but the neighbors aint.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Don't rely on the label on the bag.

Don't talk back.

Don't throw the baby out with the bath-water.

Don't try kicking against the wind.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

Draw a line under.

Draw Not Your Bow Till the Arrow is Fixed.

Draw the snake from its hole by another man’s hand Draw the snake from its hole by another man’s hand.

Dream of a funeral and you hear of a marriage.

Due to the presence of fools, wise people stand out.

Dump husband in September, you have to get rid of the spiders.