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Dainties.
1.Who dainties love shall beggars prove.
Dam.
1.Where the dam is lowest the water first runs over.
Damage.
1.Damage suffered makes you wise (or knowing), but seldom rich.Dan.
Dancer, Dancing.
1.A man dances all the same though he may dance against his will.Dan.
2.A pair of light shoes is not all that is wanting for dancing.Dan.
3.Either dance well or quit the ball-room.M. Greek.
4.Every one dances as he has friends in the ball-room.Por.
5.He who dances well goes from wedding to wedding.Sp.
6.I will make him dance without a pipe.
7.If the bear will learn to dance he must go to school early.Ger.
8.If we pay for the music, we will join in the dance.Fr., Ger.
9.It is no child's play when an old woman dances.Ger., Dan.
10.It is good dancing on another man's floor.Dutch.
11.Mary was fond of dancing and got a fiddler for her husband.M. Greek.
12.More belongs to dancing than a pair of dancing shoes.Dutch.
13.No longer pipe no longer dance.
14.Not every one that dances is glad.Fr.
15.The next time ye dance ken wha ye take by the hand.
16.The willing dancer is easily played to.Servian.
17.They love dancing well that dance among thorns.
18.'Tis safer to dance after a fiddle than a drum, though not so honorable.Fielding.
19.To dance to every man's pipe or whistle.
20.When the crane attempts to dance with the horse she gets broken bones.Dan.
21.When you go to dance, take heed whom you take by the hand.Dan.
Danger.
1.A common danger produces unanimity.Lat.
2.A danger foreseen is half avoided.
3.Better face a danger once than be always in fear.
4.Better pass a danger once than be always in fear.
5.By a divine instinct men's minds mistrust ensuing danger.Shaks.
6.Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
7.Danger comes sooner when despised.Latin.
8.Danger is next neighbor to security.
9.Dangers are overcome by dangers.
10.Dangers precede victories.Maga.
11.Every man is bound by his duty to fly from a danger that threatens his life.Sir Walter Raleigh.
12.For danger levels man and brute, And all are fellows in their need.Byron.
13.Great dangers give also great honors.M. Greek.
14.He is safe from danger who is on his guard even when safe.Syrus.
15.He that always fears danger alway feels it.
16.He that seeks danger perisheth therein unpitied.
17.He who turns aside avoids danger.Fr.
18.It is a dangerous thing to dig pits for other folks.
19.One danger is seldom overcome without another.
20.The danger past and God forgotten.
21.The danger past and the saint cheated.Ital.
22.The habitation of danger is on the borders of security.Arabian.
23.Think of thy deliverance as well as of thy danger.
24.Without danger, danger cannot be surmounted.Syrus.
Daring.
1.I dare do all that may become a man. Who dares do more is none.Shaks.
2.Letting I dare not wait upon I would, Like the poor cat in the adage.Shaks.
Darkness.
1.Darkness has no shame.West Indian Negro.
2.He who gropes in the dark finds what he would not.
Daughter.
1.A daughter is an embarrassing and ticklish possession.Menander.
2.A daughter married is a daughter alienated.Sp.
3.A house filled with daughters is a cellar full of sour beer.Dutch.
4.Alas! another daughter is born to you.Sp.
5.As the mother so the daughter.Ger.
6.Between promising and performing a man may marry his daughter.
7.Daughters and dead fish are no keeping wares.
8.Daughters are easy to rear but hard to marry.Ger.
9.Daughters are brittle ware.
10.Daughters can never take too much care of their fathers.Plautus.
11.Daughters may be seen but not heard.Dutch.
12.Dominies come for your wine and officers for your daughters.
13.He who has daughters is always a shepherd.Sp.
14.He who has daughters to marry let him give them silk to spin.Sp.
15.If thy daughter be marriageable, set thy servant free and give her to him in marriage.
16.It is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well.
17.Judge of the daughter by the mother.Latin.
18.My son is my son, till he hath got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.
19.One daughter helps to marry the other.Ital.
20.Three daughters and a mother, four devils for the father.Sp.
21.Three dear years will raise a baker's daughter to a portion.
22.When a good offer comes for your daughter don't wait till her father returns from market.Sp.
23.Whoever does not beat his daughters, will one day strike his knees in vain.Turk.
24.Would you know your daughter see her in company.
Daughter-in-law.
1.A clever daughter-in-law cannot cook without rice.Chinese.
2.As long as I was a daughter-in-law, I never had a good mother-in-law, and as long as I was a mother-in-law, I never had a good daughter-in-law.Sp.
3.Daughter-in-law hates mother-in-law.Ger.
4.I say it to you, daughter, hear it, daughter-in-law.Ital., Sp.
5.I see by my daughter-in-law's eyes when the devil takes hold of her.Galician.
6.My daughter-in-law tucked up her sleeves and upset the kettle into the fire.Sp.
Day.
1.A bad day never had a good night.
2.A day after the fair.
3.A day that is not thine own do not reckon it as of thy life.Arabian.
4.A day to come shows longer than a year that's gone.
5.A fast-day is the eve of a feast-day.Sp.
6.A single day grants what a whole year denies.Dutch.
7.Every day a thread makes a skein a year.Dutch.
8.Every day brings a new light.
9.Every day cannot be a feast of lanterns.Chinese.
10.Every day hath its night, every weal its woe.
11.Every day is not a holiday.Ital., Dutch.
12.Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.
13.Everything may be bought except day and night.Fr.
14.He never broke his hour who kept his day.
15.He that passeth a winter's day escapes an enemy.
16.In the evening one may praise the day.Ger.
17.Make the night night, and the day day, And you will live pleasantly.Sp.
18.Many seek good nights and lose good days.Dutch.
19.No day but has its evening.Fr., Ital.
20.No day is wholly productive of evil.Latin.
21.No day passes without some grief.
22.No day should pass without something being done.Latin.
23.One of these days is none of these days.
24.One day is as good as two to him who does everything in its place.Fr.
25.Open your door to a fine day, but make yourself ready for a foul one.
26.Seize the present day, giving no credit to the succeeding ones.Horace.
27.Seven hours to sleep, to healthful labor seven, Ten to the world and all to heaven.
28.Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.Bible.
29.The better the day the better the deed.Fr., Sp., Por.
30.The day has eyes, the night has ears.
31.The day is never so holy that the pot refuses to boil.Dan.
32.The day is short and the work is much.
33.The day sees the workmanship of the night and laughs.M. Greek.
34.The day that succeeds the downfall of a tyrant is always the best.Curtius Montanus.
35.The day that you do a good thing there will be seven new moons.
36.The days follow each other and are not alike.Fr.
37.The longest day must have an end.
38.The longest day is sure to have its night.
39.The longest day soon comes to an end.Pliny the Younger.
40.There is no day without its night.Por.
41.There is no day without sorrow.Seneca.
42.They had ne'er an ill day, that had a gude e'en.
43.What a day may bring a day may take away.
To-day.
1.Be wise to-day, 'tis madness to defer.Young.
2.Happy the man and happy he alone, Who can call to-day his own.Dryden.
3.To-day is yesterday's pupil.
4.To-day's egg is better than to-morrow's hen.Turk.
To-day, To-morrow.
1.Better have an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow.Ital.
2.Enjoy to-day, for to-morrow the first gray hairs may come.Punch.
3.Have you somewhat to do to-morrow, do it to-day.Franklin.
4.He who falls to-day may rise to-morrow.Don Quixote.
5.If things look badly to-day, they may look better to-morrow.
6.If to-day will not, to-morrow may.
7.It is better to have a hen to-morrow than an egg to-day.
8.Never defer till to-morrow that which you can do to-day.
9.One hour to-day is worth two to-morrow.
10.One to-day is worth two to-morrows.Ger.
11.Rather the egg to-day than the hen to-morrow.Dan.
12.To-day me, to-morrow thee.
13.To-day must borrow nothing of to-morrow.Ger.
14.To-day's sorrows will bring not to-morrow.Dutch.
15.To-morrow's remedy will not ward off the evil of to-day.Sp.
16.Use not to-day what to-morrow may want.Ancient Brahmin.
17.What is wrong to-day won't be right to-morrow.Dutch.
18.What one loses to-day one may gain to-morrow.Don Quixote.
19.What's my turn to-day, may be thine to-morrow.
20.You saddle to-day and ride out to-morrow.
To-morrow.
1.Bad to care no more than for to-morrow.
2.Every to-morrow brings its bread.Fr.
3.From to-morrow to to-morrow time goes a long journey.Fr.
4.It may be a fire—to-morrow it will be ashes.Arabian.
5.Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.Bible.
6.No one has ever seen to-morrow.
7.To-morrow comes never.
8.To-morrow is never.Arabian.
9.To-morrow morning I found a horseshoe.
10.To-morrow to fresh fields and pastures new.
11.To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.Congreve.
Yesterday.
1.No man can call back yesterday.
2.Each day is the scholar of yesterday.Syrus.
Deaf.
1.A deaf auditor makes a crazy answerer.Dan.
2.Deaf men are quick-eyed and distrustful.
3.Deaf men go away with the injury.
4.None so deaf as those who won't hear.Fr., Ital., Sp., Dan.
Dealer.
1.A dealer in onions is a good judge of scullions.Fr.
2.A dealer in rubbish sounds the praise of rubbish.Latin.
Death.
1.A dead man does not make war.Ital.
2.A dead man does not speak.Por.
3.A dead man has neither relations nor friends.Fr.
4.A dead mouse feels no cold.
5.A death-bed's a detector of the heart.Young.
6.A fly, a grape stone, or a hair can kill.Pope.
7.A man has learned much, who has learned how to die.Ger.
8.A sudden death is the best.Cæsar.
9.All death is sudden to the unprepared.
10.All men are born richer than they die.Ger.
11.An escape from death is worth more than the prayers of good men.Don Quixote.
12.An honorable death is better than an inglorious life.Socrates.
13.As dead as a door nail.
14.As dead as a herring.
15.As soon as man, expert from time, has found the key of life, it opes the gates of death.Young.
16.As soon as man is born he begins to die.Ger.
17.As soon dies the calf as the cow.Fr.
18.As soon goes the lamb's skin to market as the old ewe's.
19.Be still prepared for death, and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.Shaks.
20.Better once dead than all the time suffering in need.Ger.
21.But kings and mightiest potentates must die; For that's the end of human misery.Shaks.
22.Charon waits for all.
23.Come soon or late death's undetermined day, This mortal being only can decay.Ovid.
24.Dead dogs don't bite.Ger., Dutch.
25.Dead folks can't bite.
26.Dead men do not bite.Theoditus.
27.Dead men pay no surgeons.Fielding.
28.Dead men tell no tales.
29.Death foreseen, never comes.Ital.
30.Death always comes too early or too late.Maga.
31.Death and life are in the power of the tongue.Job.
32.Death and love are two wings which bear men from earth to heaven.Michael Angelo.
33.Death defies the doctor.
34.Death devours lambs as well as sheep.
35.Death does not blow a trumpet.Dan.
36.Death has a thousand doors to let out life.Massinger.
37.Death hath nothing terrible in it, but what life hath made so.
38.Death is a black camel that kneels at every man's gate.
39.Death is but what the haughty brave, The weak must bear, the wretch must crave.Byron.
40.Death is in the pot.Dutch.
41.Death is most unfortunate in prosperity. (Æsop however says it is then most happy to good men.)Plutarch.
42.Death is never premature except to those who die without virtue.Fr.
43.Death is shameful in flight, glorious in victory.Cicero.
44.Death is the grand leveller.
45.Death keeps no calendar.
46.Death meets us everywhere.
47.Death opens the gate to good fame and extinguishes envy.Byron.
48.Death rather frees us from ills than robs us of our goods.
49.Death's but a path that must be trod, If man would ever pass to God.Parnell.
50.Death's-day is doom's-day.
51.Death says to the man with his throat cut, “How ugly thou art.” (Hypocrisy.)Sp.
52.Death spares neither pope nor beggar.
53.Death to the wolf is life to the lamb.
54.Death to us—liberty.Caucasian battle cry.
55.Death will hear of no excuse.Euripides.
56.Deep swimmers and high climbers seldom die in their beds.Dutch.
57.Do not speak ill of the dead, but deem them sacred who have gone into the immortal state.Ancients.
58.Dread thought, that all the work man's life can have Is but to bear his coffin tow'r'd his grave.
59.Every one must pay his debt to nature.Ger.
60.Feign death and the bull will leave you.Por.
61.Few have luck, all have death.Dan.
62.Golden lads and girls, all must As chimney-sweepers come to dust.Shaks.
63.Great body, great grave.Ger.
64.He dies like a beast who has done no good while he lived.
65.He hath lived ill that knows not how to die well.
66.He hauls at a long rope that expects another's death.Ital.
67.He should wear iron shoes that bides his neighbor's death.
68.He that died half a year ago is as dead as Adam.
69.He that dies pays all debts.Shaks.
70.He that dies this year is quit of the next.Shaks.
71.He that dies troubles his parents but once, but he that lives ill torments them perpetually.
72.He that waits for dead men's shoes may go long enough barefoot.
73.He waits long that waits for another man's death.Dutch.
74.He who dies not in his twenty-third year, drowns not in his twenty-fourth, is not slain in his twenty-fifth, may boast of good days.Dutch.
75.He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going barefoot.Fr., Dan.
76.He whom the gods love dies young.Plautus.
77.He would be a good one to send for death.Ital.
78.Heaven gives its favorites an early death.Byron.
79.His candle burns within the socket.
80.How wise in God to place death at the end of life.Ger.
81.I know of nobody that has a mind to die this year.
82.If death be terrible the fault is not in death, but thee.
83.If you want to be dead wash your head and go to bed.Sp.
84.It is a lightning before death.
85.It is as natural to die as to be born.
86.It is better to die an honest death than to live an infamous life.Petrarch.
87.It is better to die once than to live always in fear of death.Cæsar.
88.It is better to die with honor than to live in infamy.Agricola.
89.It is hard even to the most miserable to die.
90.It takes four living men to carry one dead man out of the house.Ital.
91.Julius Cæsar lived in the midst of combats and died in the midst of the Senate.Turkish Spy.
92.Keep thine eye fixed on the end of life.Solon.
93.Me dead, the world is dead.Ital.
94.Men fear death as children to go in the dark.
95.Never say die.
96.No priority among the dead.
97.Noble spirits war not with the dead.Byron.
98.Of the great and of the dead, either speak well or say nothing.Ital.
99.Pale death knocks at the cottage and the palace with an impartial hand.Horace.
100.She is good and honored who is dead and buried.Sp.
101.Six feet of earth makes all men equal.
102.The actions of a dying man are void of disguise.Turkish Spy.
103.The bitterness of death must be tasted by him who is to appreciate the sweetness of deliverance.Maga.
104.The dead and absent have no friends.
105.The dead are soon forgotten.
106.The dead cannot defend, therefore speak well of the dead.Latin.
107.The dead man is unenvied.M. Greek.
108.The dead open the eyes of the living.Por.
109.The evening praises the day, death the life.Ger.
110.The first breath is the beginning of death.
111.The greatest business of life is to prepare for death.
112.The heathen looked on death without fear, the Christian exulted.Bulwer.
113.The quiet haven of us all.Wordsworth.
114.The road of death must be travelled by all.Horace.
115.The sight of death is as a bell that warns old age to a sepulchre.Shaks.
116.The sun and death are two things we cannot stare in the face.
117.The world's an inn and death the journey's end.Dryden.
118.There is no medicine against death.
119.There is no remedy for all evils but death.
120.They never fail who die in a great cause.Byron.
121.They that live longest must die at last.
122.Time goes, death comes.Dutch, Ger.
123.'Tis ours to bear, not judge the dead.
124.To die is nothing: 'tis but parting with a mountain of vexation.Massinger.
125.To die is the fate of man, but to live with lingering anguish is generally his folly.Rambler.
126.To insult the dead is cruel and unjust.Homer.
127.To live in the hearts we leave behind us is not to die.
128.To wrestle with ghosts; i.e., to speak ill of the dead.Latin.
129.Until death there is no knowing what may befall.Ital.
130.We die as we live.Turk.
131.We had better die at once than to live constantly in fear of death.Dion.
132.When he's forsaken—withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?Hood.
133.When I'm dead everybody's dead and the pig too.Ital.
134.When one is dead it is for a long time.Fr.
135.When you die even your tomb shall be comfortable.Russian.
136.When you die your trumpeter will be buried.
137.Who dies in youth and vigor dies the best.Homer.
138.Who thinks often of death does nothing worthy of life.Ital.
Debased.
1.I had rather die than be debased.Latin.
Debt.
1.A hog upon trust grunts till he's paid for.
2.A hundred wagonfuls of sorrow will not pay a handful of debt.Ital.
3.A hundred years of regret pay not a farthing of debt.Fr., Ger.
4.A light debt makes a debtor; a heavy one an enemy.Ital.
5.A loan should come laughing home.
6.A man in debt is stoned every year.Sp.
7.A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
8.A shut mouth incurs no debt.Gaelic.
9.A sick man sleeps but not a debtor.Sp.
10.A small debt makes a debtor; a heavy one an enemy.Syrus.
11.A thrush paid for is better than a turkey owing for.
12.Afttimes the cautioner pays the debt.
13.Better a coarse coat for a gulden than a fine one in debt.Ger.
14.Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
15.Debt hath a small beginning but a giant's growth and strength.Bea.
16.Debt is an evil conscience.
17.Debt is a bitter slavery to the free born.Syrus.
18.Debt is the prolific mother of folly and crime.Bea.
19.Debt is the worst poverty.
20.Debts turn freemen into slaves.Greek.
21.Happy is the man who is out of debt.Latin.
22.He cannot pay his debts. Literal: If I kill him he has no skin, if I scrape him he has no flesh.Chinese.
23.He has but a short Lent who must pay money at Easter.
24.He that gets out of debt grows rich.
25.He that has one hundred and one and owes one hundred and two the Lord have mercy on him.
26.He who gets out of debt enriches himself.Fr.
27.He who is without debt is without credit.Ital.
28.He who owes nothing fears not the sheriff's officer.Latin.
29.He who oweth is all in the wrong.
30.He who pledges or promises runs in debt.Sp.
31.How happy is he that owes nothing but to himself.
32.If you pay what you owe, what you're worth you'll know.Sp.
33.It is better to pay and have but little left, than to have much and be always in debt.
34.Keep out of debt.
35.O' ill debtors men get aiths.
36.Of bad debtors you may take spoilt herrings.Dan.
37.Out of debt, out of danger.
38.Rather check your appetite than get in debt, and though penniless be patient.Chinese.
39.Rather go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
40.Say nothing of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
41.Sins and debts are always more than we think them to be.
42.The debts go to the next heir.Ger.
43.The second vice is lying, the first being that of owing money.
44.Who lives on the score has shame evermore.Fr.
45.Who pays a debt creates capital.Ital.
46.Without debt, without care.Ital.
Debtor.
1.A debtor does not get angry.Accra.
2.A debtor gets twice angry, i.e., when he is dunned and when he has to pay.
3.From a bad debtor even a bag of straw is worth having.M. Greek.
4.Early to rise and late to bed, lifts again the debtor's head.Ger.
5.Happy is he who owes nothing.Greek.
6.The bad debtor neither denies nor pays.M. Greek.
Decay.
1.All that rises sets, and everything which grows decays.
2.Decay's effacing fingers Have sought the lines where beauty lingers.
Deceit, Deceiver.
1.Deceit and treachery make no man rich.
2.Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure.
3.Deceiving a deceiver is no knavery.
4.He that accomplishes his ends by deceit shall render up his soul with anguish.Turk.
5.If a man deceive me once shame on him, if he deceive me twice shame on me.
6.It is an ill thing to be deceived, but worse to deceive.
7.It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice.
8.Know how to deceive, do not deceive.M. Greek.
9.Men are never so easily deceived as while they are endeavoring to deceive others.Rochefoucauld.
10.No deceit like the world's.
11.Nothing is more easy than to deceive ourselves, as our affections are subtle persuaders.Demosthenes.
12.Oh! what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive.
13.One deceit brings on another.
14.The wretch that often has deceived, Though truth he speaks is ne'er believed.Phædrus.
15.There is a twofold pleasure in deceiving the deceiver.
16.There is no deceit in a brimmer.
17.There is no deceit in a bag pudding.
18.Who has deceived thee as often as thyself?Franklin.
19.Who will not be deceived must have as many eyes as hairs on his head.Ger.
Deciding, Decision.
1.Decision destroys suspense and suspense is the charm of existence.Bea.
2.Those that are quick to decide are unsafe.Greek.
3.Who shall decide when doctors disagree.
4.Who shall decide when doctors disagree? Punch, who decides neither shall have fee.Punch.
5.We ought to weigh well what we can only once decide.Syrus.
Decorum.
1.Observe decorum even in your sport.Latin.
Deeds.
1.A deed done has an end.Ital.
2.A good deed bears a blessing for its fruit.Hans Andersen.
3.Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds.Congreve.
4.Deeds are fruits, words are leaves.
5.Deeds are love and not sweet words (or fine phrases).Sp., Por.
6.Deeds are males and words are but females.
7.Deeds, not words.Beaumont and Fletcher.
8.Good deeds are ever in themselves rewarded.Massinger.
9.Good deeds remain, all things else perish.
10.Great deeds are reserved for great men.Don Quixote.
11.Great soul, great deeds.Ger.
12.He who is scared by words has no heart for deeds.Dan.
13.How much more safe the good than evil deed.Homer.
14.Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.Shaks.
15.Immodest deeds you hinder to be wrought, But we proscribe the least immodest thought.Dryden.
16.'Tis deeds must win the prize.Shaks.
Defects.
1.They know not their own defects who search for the defects of others.Sanscrit.
Defence.
1.A combined defence is the safest.
2.Millions for defence, not one cent for tribute.
Defer, Deferred.
1.Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. Congreve.
2.Defer not till to-morrow what may be done to-day.
3.Deferred is not annulled.
4.What is deferred is not lost.
Defiance.
1.Defiance provokes an enemy.
Defile.
1.It is the narrowest part of the defile that the valley begins to open.Persian.
2.Should you a cistern with rose-water fill, A dead dog would defile it still.Oriental.
Deformity.
1.A deformed body may have a beautiful soul.
2.We hug deformities if they bear our name.Glanville.
Delay.
1.A delay is better than a disaster.
2.All delay is irksome but it teaches us wisdom.Syrus.
3.All is not lost that is delayed.
4.Away with delay! it always injures those that are prepared.Lucan.
5.Away with delay! the chance of great fortune is short-lived.Silius Atticus.
6.Delays are dangerous but they make things sure.
7.Delays have dangerous ends.Shaks.
8.Delays increase desires and sometimes extinguish them.
9.Good is the delay which makes sure.Por.
10.He who delays, gathers.Sp.
11.That is a wise delay which makes the road safe.
12.The Roman conquered by delay.
13.There is danger in delay.Latin.
14.To deliberate about useful things is the safest of all delay.Syrus.
15.We hate delay and yet it makes us wise.
16.What reason could not avoid has often been cured by delay.Seneca.
Deliberate, Deliberation.
1.Deliberate before you begin, then execute with vigor.Sallust.
2.Deliberate slowly, execute promptly.
3.Deliberation is not delaying.
Delights.
1.All unwarrantable delights have an ill farewell.
Demagogues.
1.Demagogues try to keep their feet in both stirrups.Hindoo.
2.The demagogue's pride licks the dust.
Demand.
1.To a hasty demand a leisurely reply.
Denials.
1.Denials make little faults great.
2.He who denies all confesses all.Ital., Sp.
Dependence.
1.Dependence is a poor trade.
2.Disdain the bitter bread of dependence.C. C. Baldwin's Moral Maxims.
3.He who depends on another dines ill and sups worse.
4.He who is fed by another's hand seldom gets enough.Dan.
5.He who relies but on another's table is apt to dine late.Ital.
6.Who dangles after the great is the last at table and the first to be cuffed.Ital.
Deprivation.
1.There is nothing like deprivation to excite content and gratitude for small mercies.Sp.
Descent.
1.No man is a thousand descents from Adam.Hooker.
2.No one can disguise family descent.Hans Andersen.
Desert.
1.Use every man after his desert and who should escape whipping?Shaks.
Deserter.
1.His shield is turned the wrong way.Kaffir.
Desire.
1.All men desire three things, honor, riches, pleasure.
2.Desire beautifies what is ugly.Sp.
3.Desire nothing that would bring disgrace.
4.Desires are nourished by delays.
5.Examine well the counsels that favor your desires.
6.First deserve, then desire.
7.He that desires but little has no need of much.
8.He who desires to see, desires also to be seen.Don Quixote.
9.If your desires be endless your cares will be so too.
10.It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.Franklin.
11.Lack of desire is the greatest of riches.Seneca.
12.No one can have all he desires.Seneca.
13.Our desires may undo us.
14.They that desire but few things can be crossed but in few.
15.What is much desired is not believed when it comes.Sp.
16.You had better return home and make a net than go down to the river and desire to get fishes.Chinese.
17.You have a desire to do whatever you see others doing.Chinese.
Despair.
1.Despair defies even despotism.Byron.
2.Despair gives courage to a coward.
3.Despair hath ruined some, but presumption multitudes.
4.Despair is the conclusion of fools.Bea.
5.It is the nature of despair to blind us to all means of safety.Fielding.
6.Let us not throw the rope after the bucket.Don Quixote.
7.To throw the halter after the ass.Ital.
8.To throw the helve after the hatchet.Fr., Sp.
9.To throw the rope after the bucket.Ital.
10.To throw the house out of the windows.
11.To what purpose should a person throw himself into the water before the bark is going to be cast away?Chinese.
Despising.
1.A man must make himself despicable before he is despised by others.Chinese.
2.Despise not a small wound, a poor kinsman, or a humble enemy.Dan.
3.Despise school and remain a fool.
4.Despise your enemy and you will soon be beaten.Por.
5.Do not despise an insignificant enemy nor a slight wound.Ger.
6.Do not despise your inferior.Fielding.
7.None so despicable as those who despise others.Fielding.
Despot.
1.The despot's smile is the hope of fortune and his frown the messenger of death.Gibbon.
2.The despot uproots the tree, the wiser master only prunes off the superfluities.Alphonso X.
Destiny.
1.As each goes on his way, destiny accompanies him.Tamil.
2.Destiny leads the willing but drags the unwilling.
3.He must stand high who would see the end of his own destiny.Dan.
4.It is wise to submit to destiny.Chinese.
5.One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.La Fontaine.
6.That which must be will be.Dan.
7.There is no contending against destiny.Massinger.
8.What will be, will be.Ital.
9.Who can unravel the web of destiny?Turkish Spy.
Determination.
1.To him who is determined it remains only to act.Ital.
Detesting.
1.Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.Byron.
Detractor.
1.A detractor is his own foe and the world's enemy.
2.Detraction is a weed that only grows on dunghills.
3.Where curiosity is not the purveyor detraction will soon be starved.
Devil.
1.A customary railer is the devil's bag-pipe.
2.As good eat the devil as the broth he is boiled in.
3.At the end of the play the devil waits.Ger.
4.Away goes the devil when he finds the door shut against him.
5.Call not the devil, he will come fast enough unbidden.Dan.
6.Cast a bone in the devil's teeth and it will save you.
7.Devils must be driven out with devils.Ger.
8.Devil's play and wine will together.Ger.
9.Do not make two devils of one.Fr.
10.Don't mention the cross to the devil.Ital.
11.Don't tell the devil too much of your mind.
12.Even the devil has rights.Ger.
13.From a closed door the devil turns away.Por.
14.Give even the devil his due.
15.Give the devil a finger and he'll take the whole hand.
16.Give the devil rope enough and he'll hang himself.
17.Great cry and little wool, quoth the devil when he sheared his hogs.
18.He had need of a long spoon that supped with the devil.
19.He is good as long as he is pleased and so is the devil.
20.He is not so much of a devil as he is black.Fr.
21.He knows one point more than the devil.
22.He knows where the devil carries his tail.Ital.
23.He must be a clever host that would take the devil into his hostelry.Dan.
24.He must be ill favored who scares the devil.Dan.
25.He must cry loud who would scare the devil.Dan.
26.He must have iron fingers who would flay the devil.Dan.
27.He must needs go whom the devil drives.
28.He needs a long spoon that would eat out of the same dish with the devil.Dan.
29.He that has swallowed the devil may swallow his horns.Ital.
30.He that hath the devil on his neck must find him work.Dutch.
31.He that is afraid of the devil does not grow rich.Ital.
32.He that is embarked with the devil must sail with him.Dutch.
33.He that shippeth the devil must make the best of him.
34.He that takes the devil in his boat must carry him over the sound.
35.He that the devil drives, feels no lead at his heels.
36.He that worketh journey-work with the devil shall never want work.
37.He who has once invited the devil into his house will never be rid of him.Ger.
38.Ill doth the devil preserve his servants.
39.It costs the devil little trouble to catch a lazy man.Ger.
40.It is a sin to belie the devil.
41.It is an ill battle where the devil carries the colors.
42.It is an ill procession where the devil holds the candle.
43.It is easy to bid the devil be your guest, but difficult to get rid of him.Dan.
44.It is good sometimes to hold a candle to the devil.
45.It is not for nothing the devil lays down in the ditch.Dan.
46.Let the devil get into the church and he will mount the altar.Ger.
47.Let the devil never find you unoccupied.Latin.
48.Make not even the devil blacker than he is.
49.Needs must when the devil drives.
50.Never was hood so holy, but the devil could get his head in it.Dutch.
51.One devil does not make hell.Ital.
52.One devil drives out another.Ital.
53.One devil knows another.
54.One may understand like an angel and yet be a devil.
55.One must sometimes hold a candle to the devil.Dutch.
56.Open not your door when the devil knocks.
57.Pulling the devil by the tail does not lead far young or old.Fr.
58.Raise no more devils than you can lay.Ger.
59.Renounce the devil and thou shall wear a shabby cloak.Sp.
60.Resist the devil and he will flee from thee.New Testament.
61.Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do.Watts.
62.Satan now is wiser than before, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.Pope.
63.Satan's friendship reaches to the prison door.Turk.
64.Seldom lies the devil dead in a ditch.
65.Talk of the devil and you hear his bones rattle.Dutch.
66.Talk of the devil and his imp appears.
67.Talk of the devil and he'll either send or come.
68.Tell everybody your business and the devil will do it for you.Ital.
69.Tell the truth and shame the devil.
70.The devil alone can cheat the Hebrew.Polish.
71.The devil always leaves a stink behind.
72.The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.Shaks.
73.The devil cannot receive a guest more worthy of him than a slanderer.Fielding.
74.The devil catches most souls in a golden net.Ger.
75.The devil divides the world between atheism and superstition.
76.The devil entangles youth with beauty, the miser with gold, the ambitious with power, the learned with false doctrine.
77.The devil gathers up curses and obscenities.Ger.
78.The devil gets into the belfry on the vicar's skirts.Sp.
79.The devil goes shares in gaming.
80.The devil has his martyrs among men.Dutch.
81.The devil had no goats yet he sold cheese.M. Greek.
82.The devil hath not in all his quiver's choice, An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice.Byron.
83.The devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape.Shaks.
84.The devil is a busy bishop in his own diocese.
85.The devil is a most bad master.
86.The devil is always ready at hand when called for.Fielding.
87.The devil is bad because he is old.Ital.
88.The devil is civil when he is flattered.Ger.
89.The devil is fond of his own.Galician.
90.The devil is good to some.
91.The devil is good when he is pleased.
92.The devil is in the dice.
93.The devil is master of all arts.Ger.
94.The devil is never nearer than when we are talking of him.
95.The devil is not always at a poor man's door.Fr.
96.The devil is not always at one door.
97.The devil is not in the quality of the wine but in the excess.Turkish Spy.
98.The devil is not so black (or ugly) as he is painted.Ital., Ger., Por., Dutch.
99.The devil is so fond of his son that he put out his eyes.Sp.
100.The devil is subtle yet weaves a coarse web.Ital.
101.The devil leads him by the nose, who the dice too often throws.Fr.
102.The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
103.The devil likes to souse what is already wet.Ger.
104.The devil lurks (or sits) behind the cross.Fr., Ger., Sp., Dutch.
105.The devil may die without my inheriting his horns.Fr.
106.The devil often carries the standard of the living God.Ancient saying.
107.The devil rebukes sin.
108.The devil sleeps in my pocket: I have no cross to drive him from it.Massinger.
109.The devil take the hindmost.Spectator.
110.The devil tempts all, but the idle man tempts the devil.Ital.
111.The devil turns away from a closed door.Ital., Sp.
112.The devil was handsome when he was young.Fr.
113.The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
114.The devil when he grows poor becomes an excise man.M. Greek.
115.The devil will not come into Cornwall (England) for fear of being put into a pie.
116.The devil will play at small games rather than none at all.
117.The devil will tempt Lucifer.Ital.
118.The devil would have been a weaver but for the temple.
119.The devil's behind the glass.
120.The devil's children have the devil's luck.
121.“The devil's in the cards” said Sam, “four aces and not a single trump.”
122.The devil's meal turns half to bran.Fr., Ger.
123.There is no head so holy that the devil does not make a nest in it.Ger.
124.They have begun a dispute which the devil will not let them end.
125.They run fast whom the devil drives.
126.They were both equally bad and the devil put them together.
127.'Tis an ill procession where the devil carries the cross.
128.To crow well and scrape ill is the devil's trade.
129.What is gotten over the devil's back is spent under his belly.
130.What the wind gathers, the devil scatters. (Ill come goods never stay.)M. Greek.
131.When every man gets his own the devil gets nothing.Dan.
132.When the devil finds the door shut he goes away.Fr., Sp.
133.When the devil gets into the church, he seats himself on the altar.Dutch.
134.When the devil grows old he turns hermit.Fr., Ital.
135.When the devil says his pater noster, he means to cheat you.Fr., Sp.
136.When the devil was sick he thought to become a monk.Ger.
137.When your devil was born mine was going to school.Ital.
138.Where none else will, the devil himself must bear the cross.
139.Where the devil cannot put his head he puts his tail.Ital.
140.Where the devil cannot go himself, he sends an old woman.Ger.
141.Who serves God is the devil's master.Ger.
142.You pious rogue, said the devil to the hermit.Ger.
143.You would be little for God, if the devil were dead.
Dew-drop.
1.The law that rounds the world, the same Rounds the dew-drop's little frame.Maga.
Dexterity.
1.Dexterity comes by experience.
Diamond.
1.A barley corn is better than a diamond to a cock.
2.A diamond is not so precious as a tooth. Don Quixote.
3.A diamond is valuable though it lie on a dunghill.
4.A diamond with a flaw is preferable to a common stone without any imperfection.Chinese.
5.A fine diamond may be ill set.
6.Diamonds cut diamonds.
7.Diamonds dart their brightest lustre From the palsy shaken head.Wordsworth.
8.If a diamond be thrown into the mire, it is a diamond still.Turk.
Diana.
1.What cares lofty Diana for the barking dog?Latin.
Dice, Dicer.
1.Chance is a dicer.
2.He hath not lost all who hath one throw to cast.
3.The best cast at dice is not to play.Sp.
4.The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
5.The die is cast.Cæsar's exclamation on the banks of the Rubicon.
Diet.
1.Diet cures more than the lancet.
2.Every animal but man keeps to one dish.Spectator.
3.Fresh pork and new wine, Kill a man before his time.Sp.
Difference.
1.It makes a difference whose ox is gored.
Different.
1.Different people take different views.
2.Different sores must have different salves.
3.Different times, different manners.Ital.
Difficulty.
1.Difficulty makes desire.
2.Difficulties give way to diligence.
Diffidence.
1.Diffidence is the right eye of prudence.
Difficult.
1.Nothing is difficult to a willing mind.
2.Nothing so difficult but that man will accomplish it.Horace.
3.The difficult thing is to get foot in stirrup.
4.To the brave and faithful nothing is difficult.Latin.
5.What one knows not how to do is difficult, what one knows how to do is not.Chinese.
Difficulties.
1.The wise and the active conquer difficulties by daring to attempt them.Rowe.
2.Through difficulties to the stars.Motto of the State of Kansas.
Dignity.
1.Dignity does not consist in possessing honors but in deserving them.Aristotle.
2.The easiest way to dignity is humility.
Dilemma.
1.A pond in front and a stream behind. (Between two evils.)M. Greek.
2.A precipice in front, a wolf behind.Latin.
3.Between hawk and buzzard.
4.Between Scylla and Charybdis.
5.Between the devil and the deep sea.
6.Between the hammer and the anvil.Ger., Dutch.
7.Flying from the bull he fell into the river.Sp.
8.I have a wolf by the ears, I can neither part with her nor keep her.Terence.
9.In avoiding Charybdis he falls into Scylla.
10.Like the boy with the bear, he couldn't hold on't and was afraid to let go.
11.To be aground on the same rock. (To be in the same dilemma.)Latin.
12.To be in the same hospital.
Diligence.
1.A man diligent in business shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.Bible.
2.Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
3.Diligence is the mother of success.Don Quixote.
4.The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible, but the return to diligence is difficult.Rambler.
5.To perfect diligence nothing is difficult.Chinese.
Diligent.
1.The diligent hand maketh rich.
2.The diligent spinner has a large shift.
Dinner.
1.A dinner lubricates business.Lord Stowell.
Diplomatists.
1.Diplomatists are the Hebrews of politics.Bea.
Dirt.
1.Dirt is the dirtiest upon the fairest spot.
2.“Dirt is my brother” says the street sweeper.Ger.
3.Dirt parts good company.
4.He that deals in dirt has aye foul fingers.
5.He that falls into the dirt the longer he lies the dirtier he is.
6.He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.
7.It has been blowing hard; the dirt has been blowing into high places.Dan.
8.When dirt comes to honor it knows not what to be.Dan.
9.You stout and I stout, who shall carry the dirt out.
Disasters.
1.We are the authors of our own disasters.Latin.
Discipline.
1.Where there is discipline there is virtue, where there is peace there is plenty.Dan.
Discontent.
1.Discontents arise from our desires oftener than from our wants.
2.The discontented man finds no easy chair.Franklin.
3.What's more miserable than discontent?Shaks.
Discord.
1.There stalks discord with her torn mantle. Virgil.
Discourse.
1.Little discourse is gold, too much is dirt.Ger.
2.No discourse that is long can be pleasing.Don Quixote.
3.Such is the man, such is his discourse.
4.Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.
5.The discourse of men always conforms to the temper of the times.Tacitus.
Discovers.
1.That which covers thee, discovers.
Discretion.
1.A dram of discretion is worth a pound of wisdom.Ger.
2.An ounce of discretion is better than a pound of knowledge.Ital.
3.Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
4.One ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit.
Diseases.
1.Diseases are the tax on ill pleasures.
2.The disease a man dreads, that he dies of.
Disgrace.
1.That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer.Phædrus.
2.When men disgraces share, the lesser is the care.
Dishonest.
1.Nothing is profitable which is dishonest.Cicero.
Dishonorable.
1.What is dishonorable is always dangerous.
Dislike.
1.What you dislike for yourself do not like for me.Sp.
Disputations.
1.Disputations leave truth in the middle and party at both ends.
Disputing.
1.Dispute the price but don't dispute the weight.Chinese.
2.Disputing and borrowing cause grief and sorrowing.Ger.
3.Many get into a dispute well that cannot get out well.
4.There is more disputing about the shell than the kernel.Ger.
5.There is no disputing about tastes.Sp.
6.There is no disputing against a person who denies a principle.Coke.
7.To dispute about a donkey's shadow.Latin.
8.When two men dispute you may be sure there is a fool upon one side or the other, and the man that interferes the biggest fool.Punch.
9.Who disputes with the stupid must have sharp answers.Ger.
Dissemblers.
1.Dissemblers oftener deceive themselves than others.
Dissensions.
1.Dissensions like small streams at first begun, Scarce seen they rise but gather as they run.Garth.
Distaff.
1.If it will not be spun bring it not to the distaff.
2.She has other tow on her distaff.
Distance.
1.The farther away from the State the louder they cry, “California pears.”
2.'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.Campbell.
3.What is seen at a distance is most respected.Tacitus.
Distrust.
1.Distrust is poison to friendship.
2.Distrust is the mother of safety but must keep out of sight.
3.Distrust is the mother of security.La Fontaine.
Ditch.
1.At the end of the ditch the summerset.Fr.
2.It is better to leap over the ditch than trust to the pleadings of good men.Sp.
Dividing, Sharing.
1.A Montgomery division: all on one side, none on the other.
2.He who divides gets the worst share.Sp.
3.He who shares has the worst share.Sp.
4.He who shareth honey with the bear hath the least part of it.
5.Who divides honey with the bear will be like to get the lesser share.Ital.
6.Who divides with the lion gets but little.Ger.
Divine.
1.It is a good divine that follows his own teachings.Shaks.
Do.
1.And all may do what has by man been done.Young.
2.As good do nothing as to no purpose.
3.Better to do nothing than to do ill.Pliny.
4.Command your man and do it yourself.
5.Do and undo, the day is long enough.
6.Do as little as you can to repent of.
7.Do as most men do and men will speak well of thee.
8.Do as others do and few will mock you.
9.Do as the friar saith, not as he does.
10.Do as the maids do, say no and take it.
11.Do as you're bidden and you'll never bear blame.
12.Do as you would be done by.
13.Do in the hole as thou wouldst do in the hall.
14.Do it well that thou mayst not do it twice.
15.Do the best and leave the rest.
16.Do the likeliest and hope the best.
17.Do thoroughly what you set about, Kill a pig, kill him out and out.Chinese.
18.Do unto others as you would others should do to you.
19.Do well and doubt nae man, do ill an' doubt a' men.
20.Do well and dread nae shame.
21.Do well and have well.
22.Do well is better than say well.
23.Do what I say well and not what I do ill.Sp.
24.Do what the friar says, not what he does.Sp.
25.Do what thou doest. (Age quod agis.)
26.Do what you consider right whatever the people think of it, despise its censure and its praise.Pythagoras.
27.Employed about many things and doing nothing.
28.Do what you ought come what may.Fr., Ital.
29.Do what your master bids you and sit down by him at table.Don Quixote.
30.He doth much that doth a thing well.
31.He slumbers enough who does nothing.Fr.
32.He that doth most at once doth least.
33.He that doth well wearieth not himself.
34.He that is suffered to do more than is fitting will do more than is lawful.
35.He who cannot do always wants to do.Ital.
36.He who does as he likes has no headache.Ital.
37.He who does good to you either dies or goes away.Sp.
38.He who does no more than another is no better than another.Sp.
39.He who does nothing but sit and eat will wear away a mountain of wealth.Chinese.
40.He who does what he likes, does not what he ought.Sp.
41.He who is afraid of doing too much always does too little.Ger.
42.How many things are ill done because they are done but once.Petrarch.
43.I will do what I can and a little less to be able to continue at it.Ital.
44.If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
45.If you would have a thing well done, do it yourself.
46.It is easier to do many things and continue than to do one thing long.Ben Jonson.
47.It is easier to know how to do a thing than to do it.Chinese.
48.No man should live in the world who has nothing to do in it.
49.No man can do nothing and no man can do everything.Ger.
50.None so busy as those who do nothing.Fr.
51.Nothing is done while something remains undone.Fr.
52.Nothing is done with a leap.Bacon.
53.Once well done is better than twice ill done.Turk.
54.Overdoing is doing nothing to the purpose.
55.That is done soon enough which is well done.Fr., Ital.
56.That which a man causes to be done he does himself.
57.That which is well done is twice done.
58.The dead and only they should do nothing.
59.The thing that's done, is na to do.
60.There is a right and wrong way to do everything.
61.There is more trouble in having nothing to do, than in having much to do.Ital.
62.There is nothing so well done but may be mended.Fr.
63.They that do nothing learn to do ill.
64.They who cannot as they would, must do as they can.
65.To do one must be doing.Fr.
66.Well doing is the best capital.Turk.
67.Well done outlives death.Ger.
68.What is done cannot be undone.Ital., Dan.
69.What is done is done for this time.Sp.
70.What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
71.What you do, do quickly.Ger.
72.What you do, do thoroughly.Fr.
73.What you do yourself is well done.Dan.
74.What you have to do, do without delay. Literal: Wait until the Yellow River becomes clear and how old will you be?Chinese.
75.What you would not have done to yourselves never do unto others.Alexander Severus.
76.What's done cannot be undone.
77.What's done can't be helped.
78.Whatsoever a man findeth to do, do it with thy might.Bible.
79.Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you even so do unto them.Bible.
80.When a man goes out let him consider what he is to do, when he returns what he has done.Cleobulus.
81.When a thing is done make the best of it.Ger.
82.Wherever you are do as you see done.Sp.
83.Who does all he may never does well.Ital.
84.Who does no ill can have no foe.
85.Who does the best his circumstance allows, does well, acts nobly; angels could do no more.Young.
86.Who will have things done all right must be both master and servant.Ger.
Doctor (Physician).
1.A broken apothecary a new doctor.
2.A disobedient patient makes an unfeeling physician.Syrus.
3.A doctor is one who kills you to-day to prevent you from dying to-morrow.Punch.
4.A doctor's child dies not from disease but from medicine.Tamil.
5.A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away.Ger.
6.A loquacious doctor is successful.Tamil.
7.A lucky physician is better than a learned one.Ger.
8.A multitude of physicians have destroyed me.(The Emperor Adrian directed these words to be inscribed on his tomb.)
9.A new doctor, a new grave digger.Ger.
10.A physician is a man who pours drugs of which he knows little into a body of which he knows less.Voltaire.
11.A physician is an angel when employed, but a devil when one must pay him.Ger.
12.A physician is but a consoler of the mind.Petronius Arbiter.
13.A wise physician is more than armies to the public weal.Pope.
14.A wise physician never despises a distemper however inconsiderable.Fielding.
15.A young physician should have three graveyards.Ger.
16.An honest physician leaves his patient when he can no longer contribute to his health.Temple.
17.An ignorant doctor is no better than a murderer.Chinese.
18.Better wait on the cook than the doctor.
19.Bleed him, purge him and if he dies bury him.Sp., Dutch.
20.By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.Shaks.
21.Do not dwell in a city whose governor is a physician.Hebrew.
22.Each physician thinks his pills the best.Ger.
23.Every man is a fool or a physician at forty.
24.Every one ought to be his own physician.M. Greek.
25.Feed sparingly and defy the physician.
26.God healeth and the physician hath the thanks.
27.God is the restorer of health and the physician puts the fee in his pocket.Ital.
28.He who has suffered is the physician.M. Greek.
29.Head cool, feet warm, make the doctor poor.Ger.
30.Herring in the land, the doctor at a stand.Dutch.
31.Honor a physician before thou hast need of him.
32.Hussars pray for war and the doctors for fever.Ger.
33.I die by the help of too many physicians.Alexander the Great.
34.If doctors fail thee be these three thy doctors: rest, cheerfulness and moderate diet.Latin.
35.If the doctor cures the sun sees it, but if he kills the earth hides it.Scotch.
36.If you have a friend who is a physician send him to the house of your enemy.Por.
37.Little does the sick man consult his own interests who makes his physician his heir.Syrus.
38.Many funerals discredit a physician.Ben Jonson.
39.Most physicians as they grow greater in skill grow less in their religion.Massinger.
40.Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.
41.New doctor—new church-yard.Ger.
42.No good doctor ever takes physic.Ital.
43.No man is a good physician who has never been sick.Arabian.
44.No physician is better than three.Ger.
45.No physician takes pleasure in the health even of his best friend.Greek Comedian.
46.One physician is better than two but three are fatal. (Homeopathic globule.)Punch.
47.Physician, heal thyself.Ital., Ger.
48.Physicians alone are permitted to murder with impunity.Petrarch.
49.Physicians' faults are covered with earth and rich men's with money.
50.That city is in a bad case whose physician has the gout.Hebrew.
51.That patient is not like to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
52.The barber must be young and the physician old.Ger.
53.The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
54.The blunders of physicians are covered by the earth.Por.
55.The disobedience of the patient makes the physician seem cruel.
56.The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.Fr.
57.The doctor seldom takes physic.
58.The earth hides as it takes the physician's mistakes.Sp.
59.The first physicians by debauch were made, Excess began and doth sustain the trade.Dryden.
60.The four best physicians, Dr. Sobriety, Dr. Jocosity, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Gold.Ger.
61.The physician can cure the sick, but he cannot cure the dead.Chinese.
62.The physician cannot drink the medicine for the patient.Ger.
63.Time is the ablest of all mental physicians.Fielding.
64.When the physician can advise the best the patient is dead.Ger.
65.When you call the physician call the judge to make your will.Ger.
66.Who has a physician has an executioner.Ger.
67.With respect to the gout, the physician is but a lout.
68.You need not doubt, you are no doctor.
Dog.
1.A bad dog never sees the wolf.Geo. Herbert.
2.A barking dog was never a good hunter.Por.
3.A bashful dog never fattens.Ger.
4.A cursed cur should be short tied.
5.A cur's tail grows fast.Ital.
6.A dog has nothing to do and no time to rest.Tamil.
7.A dog in the manger, that neither eats nor lets others eat.Por.
8.A dog is a dog whatever his color.Dan.
9.A dog is never offended at being pelted with bones.
10.A dog is stout on his own dunghill.Fr.
11.A dog knows his own master.Turk.
12.A dog may look at a bishop.Fr.
13.A dog never bit me but I had some of his hair.Ital.
14.A dog of an old dog, a colt of a young horse. (Some say, a calf of a young cow and a colt of an old horse.)
15.A dog's life, hunger and ease.
16.A dog that bites silently. (An insidious traducer.)Latin.
17.A dog will not cry if you beat him with a bone.
18.A dog with a bone knows no friend.Dutch.
19.A good bone never falls to a good dog.
20.A good dog deserves a good bone.
21.A good dog hunts by instinct.Fr.
22.A good dog never barks at fault.Fr.
23.A good hound hunts by kind.Fr.
24.A hair of the dog cures the bite.Ital.
25.A hunting dog will at last die a violent death.Chinese.
26.A kitchen dog was never good for the chase.Ital.
27.A lean dog gets nothing but fleas.Sp.
28.A man may provoke his own dog to bite him.
29.A man's best friend is his dog, better even than his wife.Esquimaux.
30.A man who wants to drown his dog says he is mad.Fr.
31.A mastiff groweth the fiercer for being tied up.
32.A mischievous cur must be tied short.Fr.
33.A schock dog is starved and nobody believes it.Sp.
34.A sorry dog is not worth the whistling after.
35.A staff is quickly found to beat a dog.Shaks.
36.A stranger's care makes old the dog.M. Greek.
37.All bite the bitten dog.Por.
38.Although dogs together fight they are very soon all right.Chinese.
39.An ill hound comes halting hame.
40.An ill-tempered dog has a scarred nose.Dan.
41.An old dog biteth sore.
42.An old dog cannot alter its way of barking.
43.An old dog does not bark for nothing.Fr., Ital.
44.An old dog does not grow used to the collar.Ital.
45.An old dog will learn no tricks.
46.A waking dog barks from afar at a sleeping lion.
47.Barking dogs don't bite.Fr., Ger., Dutch.
48.Better have a dog fawn upon you than bite you.
49.Better have a dog for your friend than your enemy.Dutch.
50.Beware of a silent dog and still water.Latin.
51.Beware the dog himself; his shadow does not bite.Dan.
52.Beware of the dog that does not bark.Por.
53.Brabbling curs never want sore ears.
54.By gnawing skin a dog learns to eat leather.Dan.
55.Cats and dogs do not go together without wounds.Ger.
56.Cut off the dog's tail he remains a dog.Ital.
57.Dogs are hard drove when they eat dogs.
58.Dogs bark and the wind carries it away.Russian.
59.Dogs bark as they are bred.
60.Dogs bark at those they don't know.Ital.
61.Dogs begin in jest and end in earnest.
62.Dogs gnaw bones because they cannot swallow them.
63.Dogs have more good in them than men think they have.Chinese.
64.Dogs have teeth in all countries.Sp.
65.Dogs love no companion in the kitchen.Latin.
66.Dogs never go into mourning when a horse dies.
67.Dogs ought to bark before they bite.
68.Dogs that hunt foulest scent the most faults.
69.Dogs that put up many hares kill none.
70.Dogs wag their tails not so much to you as your bread.
71.Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail.Ital.
72.Dumb dogs and still water are dangerous.Ger.
73.Every dog hath its day, and every man his hour.
74.Every dog is a lion at home.
75.Every dog is not a lion at home.Ital.
76.Flesh never stands so high but a dog will venture his legs for it.
77.Give a dog an ill name and you may as well hang him.
78.Have a care of a silent dog and still water.
79.He fells twa dogs wi' ae stane.
80.He is as good a Catholic as Duke Alva's dog who ate flesh in Lent.
81.He that is bitten by a dog must apply some of its hair.Dutch.
82.He that keeps another man's dog shall have nothing left him but the line.
83.He that pelts every barking dog, must pick up a great many stones.
84.He that wants to beat a dog is sure to find a stick.Ital.
85.He that wants to hang a dog is sure to find a rope.Dan.
86.He that wants to hang a dog says it bites the sheep.Dan.
87.He that would hang his dog gives out at first that he is mad.
88.He who has loaves has dogs.Ital.
89.He who has not bread to spare should not keep a dog.Sp.
90.He who would buy a sausage of a dog must give him bacon in exchange.Dan.
91.Hold your dog in readiness before you start your hare.Dutch.
92.Hungry dogs will eat dirty puddings.
93.I had rather be a dog and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.Shaks.
94.I will never keep a dog to bite me.
95.“I will not bite any dog” says the shepherd's dog, “for I must save my teeth for the wolf.”Ger.
96.I will not keep a dog and bark myself.
97.If the bitch were not in such haste she would not litter blind puppies.Ger.
98.If the dog bark go in, if the bitch bark go out.
99.If the old dog bark he gives counsel.
100.If you eat a pudding at home your dog shall have the skin.
101.If you would have the dog follow you, you must give him bread.Sp., Dutch.
102.In the mouth of a bad dog falls many a good bone.
103.It grieveth one dog that another goeth into the kitchen.Dutch.
104.It is a good dog that can catch anything.
105.It is a hard winter when dog eats dog.
106.It is all one whether you are bit by a dog or a bitch.Fr.
107.It is an ill dog that deserves not a crust.
108.It is bad coursing with unwilling hounds.Dutch.
109.It is bad for puppies to play with cub bears.Dan.
110.It is easy robbing when the dog is quieted.Ital.
111.It is easy to find a stick to beat a dog.Ital., Dutch.
112.It is ill to waken sleeping dogs.
113.It is the nature of the greyhound to carry a long tail.Ital.
114.Let a dog get a dish of honey and he will jump in with both legs.
115.Let the dog bark so he does not bite me.Sp.
116.Like dogs that snarl about a bone And play together when they've none.Butler.
117.Little dogs start the hare but great ones catch.
118.Mad dogs get their coats torn.Dan.
119.Make the dog your companion but hold fast your staff.M. Greek.
120.Many dogs are the death of the hare.Dan.
121.Many dogs soon eat up a horse.
122.Many ways to kill a dog besides hanging him.
123.Mastiff never liked greyhound.Fr.
124.Never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.Bulwer.
125.No mad dog runs seven years.Bulwer.
126.Not every dog that barks bites.Fr.
127.Old dogs bark not for nothing.
128.One dog growls to see another go into the kitchen.Ger.
129.One must talk soothingly to the dog until he has passed him.Fr.
130.On finding a stone we see no dog, on seeing a dog we find no stone.Tamil.
131.Quarrelling dogs come halting home.
132.Rear dogs and wolf cubs to rend you.Latin.
133.Snarling curs never want sore ears.Fr.
134.Spaniels that fawn when beaten will never forsake their master.
135.Stones or bread—one must have something in hand for the dogs.Ital.
136.That dog barks more out of custom than care of the house.
137.The best dog leaps the stile first.
138.The dog barks and the ox feeds.Ital.
139.The dog barks and the caravan passes.Turk.
140.The dog does not get bread every time he wags his tail.Ger.
141.The dog gets into the mill under cover of the ass.Ital.
142.The dog guards the night, the cock rules the morn.Chinese.
143.The dog has no aversion to a poor family.Chinese.
144.The dog in his kennel barks at his fleas, the dog that hunts does not feel them.Chinese.
145.The dog rages at the stone, not at him who throws it.Ger.
146.The dog that starts the hare is as good as the one that catches it.Ger.
147.The dog that barks much is never good for hunting.Por.
148.The dog that bites does not bark in vain.Ital.
149.The dog that has been beaten with a stick is afraid of its shadow.Ital.
150.The dog that has his bitch in town never barks well.Sp.
151.The dog that is forced into the wood will not hunt many deer.Dan.
152.That dog that is idle never tires of running.Turk.
153.The dog that is quarrelsome and not strong, woe to his hide.Ital.
154.The dog that kills wolves is killed by wolves.Sp., Por.
155.The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour.Ital.
156.The dog wags his tail not for you but for your bread.Ital., Sp., Por.
157.The dog understands his master's mood.Chinese.
158.The dog who hunts foulest hits at most faults.
159.The dog will not get free by biting his chain.Dan.
160.The dogs bite the hindermost.Ger.
161.The dog's kennel is not a place to keep a sausage.Dan.
162.The flitch hangs never so high but a dog will look out for a bone.Dan.
163.The gardener's dog is neither full nor hungry.Sp.
164.The greyhound that starts many hares kills none.Sp., Por.
165.The hair of the dog is good for his bite.(Similia similibus curantur.)
166.The hindmost dog may catch the hare.
167.The honest watch-dog never barks when his own friends come round.Sam. Randall.
168.The hound that lies in the kitchen is not hungry.Ger.
169.The lean dog is all fleas.Sp.
170.The leaner the dog the fatter the flea.Ger.
171.The mad dog bites its master.Por.
172.The watch-dog does not get sweet milk unless there be drowned mice in it.Dan.
173.The well-bred hound if he does not hunt to-day will to-morrow.Sp.
174.There are more ways to kill a dog than hanging.
175.There are good dogs of all sizes.Fr.
176.There are more ways to kill a dog than to choke him to death on bread and butter.
177.There is danger when a dog has once tasted flesh.Latin.
178.There is never wanting a dog to bark at you.Por.
179.There is no dog, be he ever so wicked, but wags his tail.Ital.
180.There is no showing the wolf to a bad dog.Fr.
181.Though the mastiff be gentle, yet bite him not on the lip.Sp., Por.
182.Throw no stones at a sleeping dog.Dan.
183.Throw that bone to another dog.Sp., Por.
184.Timid dogs bark worse than they bite.Latin.
185.Timid dogs bark most.Ger.
186.'Tis a good dog can catch anything.
187.'Tis an ill dog deserves not a crust.
188.'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark.
189.To beat the dog in presence of the lion.Fr.
190.Wash a dog, comb a dog, still a dog remains a dog.Fr., Dan.
191.We'll bark ourselves ere we buy dogs so dear.
192.What, keep a dog and bark myself!Ger.
193.What matters the barking of the dog that does not bite.
194.When a dog is drowning every one offers him water.Fr.
195.When a dog runs away, hit him! hit him!
196.When a man will throw at a dog, he soon finds a stone.Ger.
197.When an old dog barks, look out.Ger., Dutch.
198.When mastiffs fight, little curs will bark.
199.When the dog is awake the shepherd may sleep.Ger.
200.When the dog is down every one is ready to bite him.Dutch.
201.When the old dog barks he giveth counsel.Sp., Por.
202.When two dogs fight for a bone the third runs away with it.Dutch.
203.While the dogs growled at each other, the wolves devoured the sheep.Fr.
204.While the dogs yelp the hares fly to the wood.Dan.
205.While you trust to the dog the wolf slips into the sheepfold.
206.Who has no bread to share should not keep a dog.Sp.
207.Whoso is desirous of beating a dog will readily find a stick.Latin.
208.With the hide of the dog its bite is cured.
209.Yelping curs may anger mastiffs at last.
Donkey.
1.He that is a donkey and believes himself a deer finds out his mistake at the leaping of the ditch.Ital.
2.If you cannot drive an ox drive a donkey.
3.My donkey is dead; let no more grass grow.M. Greek.
4.The donkey dies on the mountain, his loss comes home.Turk.
5.The horse and the mule kick each other; between the two the donkey dies.Turk.
6.There is no making a donkey drink against his will.Ital., Dutch.
“Don't Care.”
1.“Don't care” has no house.West Indian Negro.
Door.
1.A creaking door hangs long on its hinges.
2.A door must be either open or shut.Fr.
3.At a deaf man's door it is all one whether you knock or not.M. Greek.
4.Beware of a door that has many keys.Por.
5.Every one sweeps before his own door.Fr.
6.He that will make a door of gold must knock in a nail every day.
7.Let every one sweep before his own door.Ger.
8.One door never shuts but another opens.Ital.
9.Take care your tail don't get caught in the door.Ital.
10.The back door robbeth the house.
11.When one door shuts a hundred open.Sp.
12.When the door is low one must stoop.Fr.
13.When one door shuts another opens.Sp.
Door-sill.
1.The door-sill speaks not save what it heard from the hinges.
Dotage.
1.That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.Cicero.
Dower.
1.A great dower is a bed full of brambles.
2.What one wins by marriage soon wastes away.Ger.
3.Who wives for a dower resigns his own power.
4.Bring something, lass, along with thee, If thou intend to live with me.
Doubt.
1.Doubt is the key of knowledge.Persian Sceptic.
2.He doubts nothing who knows nothing.Por.
3.He that casteth all doubts shall never be resolved.
4.He who doubts nothing knows nothing.Sp.
5.If you are in doubt of anything don't be ashamed to ask, or if you have committed an error, to be corrected.Erasmus.
6.In matters of doubt, boldness is of the greatest value.Syrus.
7.Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.Shaks.
8.The end of doubt is the beginning of repose.Petrarch.
9.There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.Tennyson.
10.'Tis good to doubt the worst We may in our belief be too secure. Webster and Kowley.
11.When in doubt decide for the sake of deciding.
12.Who doubts errs not.
Dover Court.
1.Dover court: all speakers and no hearers.
Dragon.
1.A serpent unless it devour a serpent grows not to be a dragon.
Dream.
1.A Friday's dream on Saturday told, Will be sure to come true ere the day be old.
2.After a dream of a wedding comes a corpse.
3.Dreams are from Jove.Homer.
4.Dreams are froth (or lies).Fr., Ger.
5.Man is but an ass if he go about to expound his dreams.Giles' Proverbs.
6.Who lies in a silver bed has golden dreams.Ger.
Dress.
1.A good shape is in the shear's mouth.
2.A smart coat is a good letter of introduction.Dutch.
3.A slovenly dress betokens a careless mind.Don Quixote.
4.A well-formed figure needs no cloak.Por.
5.An affectation in dress implies a flaw in the understanding.
6.An old ewe dressed lamb fashion.
7.As a man dresses so is he esteemed.Dan.
8.Clothes make the man.Dutch.
9.Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder clean.Cooper.
10.Dress slowly when you are in a hurry.Fr.
11.Every one sees his smart coat, no one sees his shrunken belly.Dan.
12.Fine clothes often hide a base descent.
13.Fine clothes wear soonest out of fashion.
14.Fine cloth is never out of fashion.
15.Fine dressing is usually a foul house swept before the door.
16.Fine linen often conceals a foul skin.Dan.
17.Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse, Ere fancy you consult, consult your purse.Franklin.
18.Foppish dressing tells the world the outside is the best of the puppet.
19.Good clothes open all doors.
20.He that is proud of his fine clothes gets his reputation from his tailor.
21.He who dresses in others' clothes will be undressed on the highway.Sp.
22.He who has but one coat cannot lend it.Sp.
23.I have a good jacket in France.Sp.
24.In my own city my name, in a strange city my clothes procure me respect.
25.In your own country your name, in other countries your appearance.Hebrew.
26.It is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
27.Many dressers put the bride's dress out of order.
28.Mean clothes will keep out cold and ordinary meats satisfy hunger.Turkish Spy.
29.More goes to the making of a fine gentleman than fine clothes.
30.No fine clothes can hide the clown.
31.Rich garments weep on unworthy shoulders.Fr.
32.Showy clothes attract most.Latin.
33.The coat does not make the man.Ger.
34.The dress does not make the friar.Sp.
35.The gown does not make the friar (or monk).Fr., Ital.
36.The robe does not make the dervish.Turk.
37.The swarthy dame dressed fine decries the fair one.Sp.
38.The tailor makes the man.
39.The white coat does not make the miller.Ital., Ger.
40.The worst clothed go to windward.Fr.
41.That suit is best that best fits me.
42.Though you see me with this coat I have another up the mountain.Sp.
Drink.
1.Drink and drouth come not always together.
2.Drink in the morning staring, then all day be sparing.
3.Drink little that ye may drink lang.
4.Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.Por.
5.Drink upon salad costs the doctor a ducat, Drink upon eggs costs him two.Ger.
6.Drink washes off the daub and discovers the man.
7.Drink wine and have the gout, drink none and have it too.
8.Drink wine and let the water go to the mill.Ital.
9.Drink wine upon figs.Sp.
10.Drinking kindness is drunken friendship.
11.Good drink drives out bad thoughts.Dutch.
12.Knock under the board; he must do so that will not drink his cup.
13.Of all meat in the world drink goes down the best.
14.Only what I drink is mine.Polish Serf.
15.The first draught a man drinks ought to be for thirst, the second for nourishment, the third for pleasure, and the fourth for madness.Anacharsis.
16.The smaller the drink the cooler the blood and the clearer the head.
17.They that drink longest live longest.
18.Thousands drink themselves to death before one dies of thirst.Ger.
19.You must drink as much after an egg as after an ox.
Drowning.
1.A drowning man will catch at a rush.
2.A drowning man will catch at a straw.
3.A good swimmer is not safe against drowning.Fr.
4.Better go about than be drowned.Sp., Por.
5.Good swimmers are oftenest drowned.
6.He came safe from the East Indies and was drowned in the Thames.
7.The best swimmer is the first to drown himself.Ital.
8.The best swimmers are oftenest drowned, and the best riders have the hardest falls.Chinese.
Drunkard.
1.A drunkard's purse is a bottle.
2.A drunken man may soon be made to dance.Dan.
3.An old dram drinker's the devil's decoy.Berkley.
4.Drunkards have a fool's tongue and a knave's heart.
5.Drunken folk seldom take harm.
6.He hurts the absent who quarrels with a drunken man.Syrus.
7.He that kills a man when he is drunk must be buried under the gallows.
8.He who has drunk will drink.Fr.
9.He who likes drinking is always talking of wine.Ital.
10.He would rather have a bumper in hand than the Bible.Dutch.
11.Let the drunkard alone and he will fall of himself.
12.Often drunk and seldom sober, falls like the leaves in October.
13.Oh! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brain.Shaks.
14.The best cure for drunkenness is while sober to see a drunken man.Chinese.
15.The drunkard and the glutton come to poverty and drowsiness that clothe a man with rags.
16.The drunkard continually assaults his own life.
17.The drunkard is discovered by his praise of wine.
18.The drunken man's joy is often the sober man's sorrow.Dan.
19.The drunken mouth reveals the heart's secrets.Ger.
20.The wise drunkard is a sober fool.Ger.
21.There are more old drunkards than old doctors.Fr., Ger.
22.What is in the heart of the sober man is on the tongue of the drunken man.Lat.
23.What the sober man has in his heart, the drunken man has on his lips.Dan.
24.What the sober man thinks the drunkard tells.Fr., Dutch.
25.You drink out of the broad end of the funnel and hold the little one to me.
Drunkenness.
1.Drunkenness brutifies even the bravest spirits.Feltham.
2.Drunkenness does not produce faults; it discovers them, for time does not change manners; it uncovers them.Chinese.
3.Drunkenness is a bewitching devil, a pleasant poison and a sweet sin.Augustine.
4.Drunkenness is a pair of spectacles to see the devil and all his works.
5.Drunkenness is an egg from which all vices are hatched.
6.Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.Seneca.
7.Drunkenness makes some men fools, some beasts and some devils.
8.Drunkenness turns a man out of himself and leaves a beast in his room.
9.Thought when sober, said when drunk.Ger.
10.What soberness conceals drunkenness reveals.
11.What you do when drunk you must pay for when sober.Scotch.
Drop.
1.Drop by drop fills the tub.Fr.
2.Drop by drop the lake is drained.
3.The whole ocean is made up of little drops.
Dropping.
1.Constant dropping wears the stone.
2.Dropping buckets into empty wells. And drawing nothing up.
3.The gutter by dropping wears the stone.Sp.
Drum.
1.Got with the fife, spent with the drum.
2.The noisiest drum has nothing in it but air.
3.What comes by the fife comes back to the drum.Fr.
4.Where drums speak out, laws hold their tongues.
Duck.
1.A duck will not always dabble in the same water.
2.It is no sign of a duck's nest to see fedders on de fence.American Negro.
3.Like the conversation of ducks, nothing but wah-wah.Turk.
4.They follow each other like ducks in a gutter.
5.Young ducks may be auld geese.
Due.
1.Who loseth his due getteth no thanks.
Duel, Duellist.
1.The duel is a perfidious device, by means of which the cut-throat can securely assassinate an honest man.Fr.
2.The duellist, in proving his bravery, shows that he thinks it suspected.
3.The duellist values his honor above the life of his antagonist and the happiness of his family.
4.Were the devil to come from hell to fight, there would forthwith be a Frenchman to challenge him.Fr.
Dull.
1.As dull as a beetle.
2.As dull as the debates of Dutch burgomasters on cheese parings and candle ends.
Dung.
1.Dung is no saint, but where it falls it works miracles.
2.There is never a great dunghill at a sportsman's door.Sp.
Duty.
1.Duty before pleasure.
Dwelling.
1.Do not dwell in a city where a horse does not neigh, nor a dog bark. (The meaning is, if we would be safe from danger we require the horse against the enemy, and the dog against thieves.)Hebrew.
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