Proverbs starting with "D"

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• D1 DAFFING¹ dow nothing²
• D2 He is DAGGED
• D3 He will swear DAGGER out of sheath
• D4 I will not wear the wooden DAGGER
• D5 Stabbed with a Bridport DAGGER
• D6 To come off with a wooden DAGGER
• D7 To take a DAGGER and drown oneself
• D8 Hold up your DAGGER HAND
• D9 To be at DAGGERS' DRAWING
• D10 DAINTY makes dearth
• D11 The DAINTIES of the great are the tears of the poor
• D12 Dear bought and far fetched are DAINTIES for ladies
• D13 Who DAINTIES love shall beggars prove
• D14 To leap at a DAISY
• D15 The DAM of that was a whisker
• D16 To look as though he had sucked his DAM through a hurdle
• D17 A long-gathered DAM is soon run out
• D18 DAME deem¹ warily
• D19 He that will not be ruled by his own DAME (father) must be ruled by his stepdame (stepfather)
• D20 She is an holiday DAME
• D21 DAMMING and laving¹ is sure fishing
• D22 To DANCE barefoot
• D23 Everyone is not merry that DANCES
• D24 Never was DANCER good scholar
• D25 DANCING follows a full belly
• D26 They love DANCING well that dance among thorns
• D27 Better pass a DANGER once than be always in fear
• D28 DANGER and delight grow both upon one stalk (stock)
• D29 A DANGER foreseen is half avoided
• D30 DANGER itself the best remedy for danger
• D31 The DANGER (river) past and God forgotten
• D32 He incurs no DANGER that comes not where it is
• D33 He that seeks DANGER perishes therein
• D34 He that will sail without DANGER must never come upon the main sea
• D35 The more DANGER the more honor
• D36 Who perishes in needless DANGER is the devil's martyr
• D37 Without DANGER we cannot get beyond danger
• D38 I will put DARE behind the door and do it
• D39 He that gropes in the DARK finds that he would not
• D40 It is as good to be in the DARK as without light
• D41 He that is dim-sighted has eaten DARNEL
• D42 He is out at first DASH
• D43 He that would the DAUGHTER win must with the mother first begin
• D44 If your DAUGHTER be marriageable set your servant free and give her to him in marriage
• D45 Marry your DAUGHTER and eat fresh fish betimes
• D46 When the DAUGHTER is stolen shut Peppergate
• D47 Marry your DAUGHTERS betimes lest they marry themselves
• D48 Two DAUGHTERS and a back door are three arrant (stark) thieves
• D49 DAVID¹ and Chad² sow peas good or bad
• D50 As wise as a DAW
• D51 He that marries a DAW (slut) eats mickle dirt
• D52 The dasnell¹ DAWCOCK² sits among the doctors
• D53 Strike, DAWKIN, the devil is in the hemp
• D54 Dab, quoth DAWKINS, when he hit his wife in the ass with a pound of butter
• D55 As bright as DAY
• D56 As clear as the DAY
• D57 As merry as the DAY is long
• D58 As the DAY lengthens so the cold strengthens
• D59 Be the DAY never so long, at last (at length) comes (it rings to) evensong
• D60 The better DAY the better deed
• D61 Come DAY, go day, the day is long enough (God send Sunday)
• D62 The DAY has eyes, the night has ears
• D63 The DAY is short and the work is much
• D64 Do and undo, the DAY is long enough
• D65 Every DAY brings its bread with it
• D66 Every DAY has his dolor
• D67 Every DAY in the week one shower of rain and on Sunday twain
• D68 Every DAY is not holiday (Sunday)
• D69 Every DAY is not yesterday
• D70 Every DAY the night comes
• D71 Every DAY worse and worse
• D72 A fair DAY in winter is mother of a storm
• D73 The first DAY of April you may send a fool whither you will
• D74 For ever and a DAY
• D75 A good DAY will not mend him nor a bad day impair him
• D76 He is bursen¹ all DAY with bearing timber to the crag²
• D77 He that comes every DAY shall have a cockney,¹ he that comes now and then shall have a fat hen
• D78 He that contemplates has a DAY without night
• D79 He that fights and runs away may live to fight another DAY
• D80 He that knows what may be gained in a DAY never steals
• D81 He that sees you in the DAY will not seek you in the night
• D82 I wept when I was born and every DAY shows why
• D83 It falls in a DAY that falls not all the year after
• D84 It is always darkest just before the DAY dawns
• D85 It is DAY still while the sun shines
• D86 It is good to take the DAY before you
• D87 It is never a bad DAY that has a good night
• D88 It will be a black (bloody) DAY to somebody
• D89 Lay up for a rainy DAY
• D90 The longest DAY has an end
• D91 No DAY passes without some grief
• D92 No DAY so clear but has dark clouds
• D93 No DAY without a line
• D94 Not a long DAY but a good heart rids work
• D95 Not worthy to be named the same DAY
• D96 One DAY judges another and the last is judge of all
• D97 One DAY will pay for all
• D98 One fair DAY in winter makes not birds merry
• D99 One may see DAY at a little hole
• D100 Praise a fair DAY at night
• D101 There will come a DAY of reckoning
• D102 They take a long DAY that never pay
• D103 This DAY there is no trust, but come tomorrow
• D104 Though you rise early yet the DAY comes at his time and not till then
• D105 To a fair DAY open the window but make you ready as to a foul
• D106 To angle all DAY and catch a gudgeon at night
• D107 To know how to live another DAY
• D108 To rise late (at ten o'clock), DAY or day not
• D109 What one DAY gives us another takes away from us
• D110 Who rises late trots all the DAY
• D111 You are feared of the DAY you never saw
• D112 You come a DAY after the fair
• D113 He does an excellent DAY's work who rids himself of a fool
• D114 After three DAYs men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy (rain)
• D115 Farewell my good DAYS, they will be soon gone
• D116 Halcyon DAYS
• D117 I will make him know churning DAYS
• D118 My dancing DAYS are done
• D119 One of these DAYS is none of these days
• D120 So many DAYS old the moon is on Michaelmas DAY, so many floods
• D121 Thirty DAYS have November, April, June, and September; February has twenty-eight alone and all the rest have thirty-one
• D122 Two dismal DAYS, the day of death and the day of doom
• D123 You burn DAYLIGHT
• D124 Speak well of the DEAD
• D125 To lament the DEAD avails not and revenge vents hatred
• D126 To lament the DEAD avails not and to the living it is hurtful
• D127 The DEAF (Deaf men) gain (go away with) the injury
• D128 To DEAL (play) aboveboard
• D129 One seldom loses by DEALING with honest men
• D130 The DEARER it is the cheaper for me
• D131 No DEARTH but breeds in the horse manger
• D132 DEARTHS foreseen come not
• D133 After DEATH the doctor (physic)
• D134 As pale as DEATH
• D135 As silent as DEATH
• D136 As sure as DEATH
• D137 DEATH and marriage make term day
• D138 DEATH at the one door and heirship at the other
• D139 DEATH devours lambs as well as sheep
• D140 DEATH has a thousand doors to let out life
• D141 DEATH is a plaster for all ills
• D142 DEATH is common to all
• D143 DEATH is the grand leveler
• D144 DEATH keeps no calendar
• D145 The DEATH of a young wolf does never come too soon
• D146 The DEATH of the wolves is the safety of the sheep
• D147 The DEATH of wives and the life (standing) of sheep make men rich
• D148 DEATH pays all debts
• D149 DEATH takes no bribe
• D150 DEATH when it comes will have no denial
• D151 A fair DEATH honors the whole life
• D152 For his DEATH there is many a wet eye in Groby Pool
• D153 He has not lived that lives not after DEATH
• D154 He laughs ill that laughs himself to DEATH
• D155 He that fears DEATH lives not
• D156 One had as good be nibbled to DEATH by ducks or pecked to death by a hen
• D157 Till DEATH all is life
• D158 To rhyme to DEATH, as they do rats in Ireland
• D159 Welcome, DEATH, quoth the rat when the trap fell down
• D160 You have DEATH in your house and do bewail another's
• D161 DEATH's day is doomsday
• D162 To be at DEATH's door
• D163 DEBT is better than death
• D164 He that gets out of DEBT grows rich
• D165 I will not die in your DEBT (your debtor)
• D166 Out of DEBT out of danger
• D167 Out of DEBT out of deadly sin
• D168 To pay one's DEBT to nature
• D169 You can puind¹ for DEBT but not for unkindness
• D170 Better old DEBTS than old sores
• D171 Speak not of my DEBTS unless you mean to pay them
• D172 DEBTORS are liars
• D173 Of ill DEBTORS men take oats (hay, straw)
• D174 One DECEIT (falsehood) drives out another
• D175 There is no DECEIT in a bag pudding
• D176 There is no DECEIT in a brimmer
• D177 To do well is no DECEIT, to cast away his own is no gain
• D178 To DECEIVE oneself is very easy
• D179 He that DECEIVES (beguiles) another is oft deceived (beguiled) himself
• D180 He that once DECEIVES is ever suspected
• D181 Nobody DECEIVED but he that confides (trusts)
• D182 To deceive the DECEIVER is no deceit
• D183 A good DEED is never lost
• D184 An ill DEED cannot bring honor
• D185 Self DEED self fa¹
• D186 DEEDS are fruit, words are but leaves
• D187 DEEDS are male (men), words are female (women)
• D188 The DEEPER the sweeter
• D189 As the stricken DEER withdraws himself to die
• D190 Where the DEER is slain some of her blood will lie
• D191 The greatest DEER-STEALERS make the best park-keepers
• D192 DEFEND me and spend me
• D193 The first DEGREE of folly is to hold oneself wise, the second to profess it, the third to despise counsel
• D194 After a DELAY comes a let¹
• D195 DELAY breeds danger (is dangerous)
• D196 DELAY in love is dangerous
• D197 That DELAY is good which makes the way the safer
• D198 DELAYS are the death of suitors
• D199 When the DEMAND is a jest the fittest answer is a scoff
• D200 He that demands misses not unless his DEMANDS be foolish
• D201 He that asks faintly begs a DENIAL
• D202 DENIALS make little faults great
• D203 To bind in DERBY's bands
• D204 It is easier to DESCEND than ascend
• D205 The DESCENT to hell is easy
• D206 DESERT and reward be ever far odd (seldom keep company)
• D207 To reward one according to his DESERTS
• D208 First DESERVE and then desire
• D209 He that DESERVES best is commonly worst re-warded
• D210 Great DESERVERS grow intolerable presumers
• D211 DESIRE has no rest
• D212 DESIRE torments us and hope comforts us
• D213 DESIRES are nourished by delay
• D214 He begins to die that quits his DESIRES
• D215 He begins to die that quits his DESIRES
• D216 DESPAIR (Love) makes cowards courageous (desperate)
• D217 As black as the DEVIL
• D218 As false as the DEVIL
• D219 As innocent as a DEVIL of two years old
• D220 As the DEVIL loves holy water
• D221 As the DEVIL mended his dame's leg
• D222 Between the DEVIL and the deep sea (Dead Sea)
• D223 Bring you the DEVIL and I'll bring out his dam
• D224 The DEVIL always leaves a stink behind him
• D225 The DEVIL and his dam
• D226 The DEVIL and John of Cumber
• D227 The DEVIL and the dean begin with a letter; when the devil has the dean the kirk will be the better
• D228 The DEVIL and the whirlwind go with him
• D229 The DEVIL brought the bashful man to the court
• D230 The DEVIL can cite Scripture for his purpose
• D231 The DEVIL can transform himself into an angel of light
• D232 The DEVIL dances in a woman's placket
• D233 The DEVIL dances in an empty pocket
• D234 The DEVIL divides the world between atheism and superstition
• D235 The DEVIL gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts
• D236 The DEVIL go with thee down the lane
• D237 The DEVIL has cast a bone to set strife
• D238 The DEVIL has owed me a cake of a long time and now has paid me a loaf
• D239 The DEVIL himself can't understand it
• D240 The DEVIL is a busy bishop in his own diocese
• D241 The DEVIL is a knave
• D242 The DEVIL is an ass
• D243 The DEVIL is at home
• D244 The DEVIL is dead
• D245 The DEVIL is ever kind to his own
• D246 The DEVIL is full of knowledge (is nought) because he is old
• D247 The DEVIL is God's ape
• D248 The DEVIL is good to some
• D249 The DEVIL is good when he is pleased
• D250 The DEVIL is in the dice
• D251 The DEVIL is in the straw
• D252 The DEVIL is known by his claws (cloven feet, horns)
• D253 The DEVIL is not always at a poor man's door
• D254 The DEVIL is not always at one door
• D255 The DEVIL is not so black as he is painted
• D256 The DEVIL lurks behind the cross
• D257 The DEVIL made souters¹ shipmen, that can neither steer nor row
• D258 The DEVIL makes his Christmas pie of lawyers' tongues and clerks' fingers
• D259 The DEVIL never assails a man except he find him either void of knowledge or of the fear of God
• D260 The DEVIL on Dun's¹ back
• D261 The DEVIL owed him a shame and now he has paid it
• D262 The DEVIL rebukes sin
• D263 The DEVIL rides on a fiddlestick
• D264 The DEVIL run through you booted and spurred with a scythe on his back
• D265 The DEVIL shits upon a great heap
• D266 The DEVIL sometimes speaks the truth
• D267 The DEVIL take the hindmost
• D268 The DEVIL (The devil and all) to pay
• D269 The DEVIL turns his back at a door shut
• D270 The DEVIL was sick, the devil a monk would be; the devil was well, the devil a monk was he
• D271 The DEVIL wipes his tail with the poor man's pride
• D272 The DEVIL would have been a weaver but for the temples
• D273 Give the DEVIL his due
• D274 Go to the DEVIL and bishop you
• D275 He is good to fetch the DEVIL a priest
• D276 He is like the DEVIL, always in mischief
• D277 He looks as the DEVIL looked over Lincoln
• D278 He must needs go that the DEVIL drives
• D279 He must rise betimes that will cozen the DEVIL
• D280 He that has shipped the DEVIL must make the best of him
• D281 He that is busy is tempted but by one DEVIL, he that is idle by a legion
• D282 He that takes the DEVIL into his boat must carry him over the sound
• D283 He will swear the DEVIL out of hell
• D284 He would have (To know) the DEVIL and all
• D285 If the DEVIL be a vicar you will be his clerk
• D286 Ill does the DEVIL preserve his servant
• D287 Let one DEVIL ding¹ another
• D288 Let the DEVIL pay the maltman
• D289 More like the DEVIL than Saint Laurence
• D290 One DEVIL is like another
• D291 One had as good eat the DEVIL as the broth he is boiled in
• D292 Sain¹ you well from the DEVIL and the laird's bairns
• D293 Seldom lies the DEVIL dead in a ditch (by the dike side)
• D294 Speak of the DEVIL and he will appear
• D295 That will come when the DEVIL is blind
• D296 There is a DEVIL in every berry of the grape
• D297 Though I am black I am not the DEVIL
• D298 To give the DEVIL the one to carry away the other
• D299 To hug one as the DEVIL hugs a witch
• D300 To play the DEVIL for God's sake
• D301 To play the DEVIL in the bullimong¹
• D302 To play the DEVIL in the horologue
• D303 To set the DEVIL on sale
• D304 Up with it if it be but a DEVIL of two years old
• D305 When he has wounded himself he seeks to the DEVIL for physic
• D306 When the DEVIL is a hog you shall eat bacon
• D307 When the DEVIL is dead there is a wife for Humphrey
• D308 Where had the DEVIL the friar but where he was?
• D309 Where none else will, the DEVIL himself must bear the cross
• D310 The white DEVIL is worse than the black
• D311 A young DEVIL an old saint
• D312 The DEVIL's child the devil's luck
• D313 The DEVIL's guts
• D314 The DEVIL's mouth is a miser's purse
• D315 He is patterning the DEVIL's paternoster
• D316 That which is gotten over the DEVIL's back is spent under his belly
• D317 To be at the DEVIL's ass-a-peak
• D318 To bear the DEVIL's sack
• D319 Raise no more DEVILS (spirits) than you are able to lay
• D320 As true as the DIAL to the sun
• D321 To move as does the DIAL HAND, which is not seen to move
• D322 To be a rough DIAMOND
• D323 DIAMONDS cut diamonds
• D324 DICING, drabbing, and drinking are the three D's to destruction
• D325 As smooth (fit) as a DIE
• D326 The DIE is cast
• D327 It is as natural to DIE as to be born
• D328 OLD be or young DIE
• D329 The sparing DIET is the spirit's feast
• D330 The DIFFERENCE is wide that the sheets will not decide
• D331 Little DIFFERENCE between a feast and a bellyful
• D332 There is a DIFFERENCE between Peter and Peter
• D333 There is a great DIFFERENCE between word and deed
• D334 There is DIFFERENCE between staring and stark-blind (stark-mad)
• D335 There is no DIFFERENCE of bloods in a basin
• D336 There is small DIFFERENCE to the eye of the world in being nought and being thought so
• D337 When DIGHTON is pulled down Hull shall become a great town
• D338 DILIGENCE is the mother of good fortune (luck)
• D339 Too much DILIGENCE is hurtful
• D340 After DINNER sit a while, after supper walk a mile
• D341 At DINNER my man appears
• D342 He that saves his DINNER will have the more for his supper
• D343 He that would eat a good DINNER let him eat a good breakfast
• D344 DINNERS cannot be long where dainties want
• D345 Cast no DIRT into the well that has given you water
• D346 DIRT bodes luck
• D347 DIRT parts company
• D348 He that falls into the DIRT, the longer he stays there the fouler he is
• D349 Throw DIRT enough and some will stick
• D350 What serves DIRT for if it do not stink?
• D351 The DIRTBIRD (dirt owl) sings, we shall have rain
• D352 Sweet DISCOURSE makes short days and nights
• D353 While the DISCREET advise the fool does his business
• D354 DISCRETION is the better part of valor
• D355 The chief DISEASE that reigns this year is folly
• D356 A deadly DISEASE neither physician nor physic can ease
• D357 A desperate DISEASE must have a desperate cure
• D358 A DISEASE known is half cured
• D359 DISEASES are the interests of pleasures
• D360 DISEASES of the eye are to be cured with the elbow
• D361 DISGRACES are like cherries, one draws another
• D362 He is DISGUISED
• D363 As easy as to lick a DISH
• D364 A DISH of dotterels
• D365 The DiSH (pot) wears its OWN cover
• D366 Everyone that can lick a DISH
• D367 The first DISH pleases all
• D368 He has got a DISH
• D369 Hold the DISH while I shed my pottage
• D370 Lick your DISH
• D371 One DISH should serve the turn
• D372 Pay with the same DISH you borrow
• D373 She simpers like a riven DISH
• D374 To carry one's DISH upright
• D375 To hold one's DISH under another person's ladle
• D376 You clap your DISH¹ (beg, knock) at a wrong man's door
• D377 All her DISHES are chafing dishes
• D378 Many DISHES many diseases
• D379 They were never fain that fidged nor full that licked DISHES
• D380 I will not make my DISHCLOUT my tablecloth
• D381 The DISPOSITION of the mind follows the constitution (composition) of the body
• D382 Serve a noble DISPOSITION (man) though poor, the time comes that he will repay thee
• D383 DISPRAISE by evil men is praise
• D384 In too much DISPUTE truth is lost
• D385 There is no DISPUTING of taste
• D386 He that cannot DISSEMBLE knows not how to live (rule)
• D387 Better to go about than to fall into the DITCH
• D388 Lie not in the DITCH and say God help me
• D389 A DIURNAL-MAKER¹ is the subamner² to a historian
• D390 DIVERSITY of humors breeds tumors
• D391 DIVIDE and rule
• D392 Make me a DIVINER (soothsayer) and I will make you rich
• D393 As good undone as DO it too soon
• D394 DO as I say, not as I do
• D395 DO as you would be done to
• D396 DO it well or do it again
• D397 Do not DO it if thou wilt not have it known
• D398 DO well and have well
• D399 DO well for others yet look to yourself
• D400 DO what you ought and come what come can
• D401 For that which thou canst DO thyself rely not on another
• D402 It is better to DO well than to say well
• D403 It is never too late to DO well
• D404 It is never too late to DO well
• D405 Self DO self have
• D406 We will DO anything that we may dance all
• D407 What we DO willingly is easy
• D408 You can't DO but you must overdo
• D409 He DOES well but none knows but himself
• D410 He is handsome that handsome DOES
• D411 He that DOES amiss may do well
• D412 He that DOES (seeks) that he ought not, that happens to him he thinks not (finds what he would not)
• D413 He that DOES well wearies not himself
• D414 He that DOES what he will does not what he ought
• D415 Well is that well DOES
• D416 As you have DONE so shall you feel
• D417 Better it be DONE than wish it had been done
• D418 Everything is easy after it has been DONE
• D419 That which is easily DONE is soon believed
• D420 As like as a DOCK to a daisy
• D421 In DOCK out nettle
• D422 In DOCK out nettle
• D423 He must be a DOCTOR at least that reads it
• D424 If the DOCTOR (physician) cures, the sun sees it, but if he kills, the earth hides it
• D425 You need not doubt, you are no DOCTOR
• D426 That is but one DOCTOR's opinion
• D427 The best DOCTORS (physicians) are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman
• D428 To be DOCTORS at Daws' Cross
• D429 Doctor DODDYPOLL
• D430 Not worth a DODKIN
• D431 To trot like a DOE
• D432 Ill DOERS are ill deemers
• D433 As dry as a DOG
• D434 As greedy as a DOG
• D435 As idle as a DOG
• D436 As long as a DOG (cat) would be bound with a blood pudding¹
• D437 As low as DOG to bow
• D438 As melancholy as a DOG
• D439 As nimble as a new-gelt DOG
• D440 As sick as a DOG
• D441 As weary as a DOG
• D442 A bad DOG never sees the wolf
• D443 Beat the DOG before the lion
• D444 The best DOG leaps the stile first
• D445 Better to have a DOG fawn on you than bite (bark at) you
• D446 Bid a churlish DOG bite
• D447 A curst DOG (cur) must be tied short
• D448 A dead DOG bites (barks) not
• D449 The DOG (wolf) barks in vain at the moon
• D450 The DOG fights best that out of danger plays
• D451 The DOG gnaws the bone because he cannot swallow it
• D452 A DOG in a doublet
• D453 A DOG (man) of wax
• D454 The DOG offended, the sow suffered
• D455 The DOG returns to his vomit
• D456 The DOG that kills the wolf is at length killed by the wolf
• D457 The DOG (cat) that licks ashes trust not with meal
• D458 The DOG to his vomit and the swine (sow) to his (her) mire
• D459 The DOG wags his tail not for love of you but of your bread
• D460 The DOG who hunts foulest hits at most faults
• D461 A DOG will bark ere he bite
• D462 A DOG will endure no companions in the kitchen
• D463 A DOG will not cry (bite, yowl) if you strike (beat) him with a bone
• D464 Every DOG has his day
• D465 Every DOG is stout at his own door (is a lion at home)
• D466 Every naughty DOG hangs his tail
• D467 Fight DOG, fight bear, the devil part them
• D468 Fling the DOG a bone
• D469 The foremost DOG catches the hare
• D470 A good DOG deserves a good bone
• D471 A good DOG never barked but¹ a bone
• D472 A good DOG seldom meets with a good bone
• D473 Hang a DOG on a crab tree and he'll never love verjuice
• D474 He is not able to give a DOG a crust
• D475 He looks like a DOG under a door
• D476 He that has a DOG of his own may go to the kirk with a clean breast
• D477 He that would hang his DOG gives out first that he's mad
• D478 He will lie as fast as a DOG will lick a dish
• D479 Help the lame DOG over the stile
• D480 The hindmost DOG may catch the hare
• D481 I am not everybody's DOG that whistles
• D482 I will not keep a DOG and bark myself
• D483 If the DOG bark go in, if the bitch bark go out
• D484 If the old DOG barks he gives counsel
• D485 If you will have the DOG follow you (have a good dog), give him bread (feed him well)
• D486 It is a good DOG can catch anything
• D487 It is an ill DOG that deserves not a crust
• D488 It is an ill (poor) DOG that is not worth the whistling
• D489 It is hard to make an old DOG stoop
• D490 It would make a DOG doff his doublet
• D491 It would vex a DOG (man) to see a pudding creep
• D492 Knit my DOG a pair of breeches and my cat a codpiece
• D493 Let the DOG worry the hog
• D494 Like a DOG in a fair
• D495 A living DOG is better than a dead lion
• D496 Love me love my DOG
• D497 Many a DOG is hanged for his skin and many a man is killed for his purse
• D498 An old DOG barks not in vain
• D499 An old DOG (hound) bites sore
• D500 An old DOG will learn no tricks
• D501 An old DOG (mastiff) will not be led in a string (chain)
• D502 Sirrah¹ your DOG but sirrah not me, for I was born before you could see
• D503 A still DOG bites sore
• D504 There is a DOG in the well
• D505 To be cozened as the DOG was who thought to go to breakfast and went to hanging
• D506 To be old DOG at it
• D507 To blush like a black DOG
• D508 To call a DOG a dog
• D509 To die like a DOG
• D510 To give one the DOG to hold
• D511 To look like a DOG that has lost his tail
• D512 To love it as a DOG loves a whip
• D513 To play the DOG in the manger, not eat yourself nor let anybody else
• D514 To use one like a DOG
• D515 A waking DOG afar off barks at a sleeping lion
• D516 When a DOG is drowning everyone offers him drink
• D517 When the DOG is beaten out of the room where will they lay their stink?
• D518 While a DOG gnaws a bone he hates his fellow
• D519 The worst DOG that is wags his tail
• D520 Cut off a DOG's tail and he will be a dog still
• D521 A DOG's life, hunger and ease
• D522 A DOG's nose and a maid's knees are always cold
• D523 To make a DOG's bed
• D524 To sleep DOG's sleep
• D525 Wake not at every DOG's bark
• D526 All DOGS bark not (No dogs shall bark) at him
• D527 All the DOGS follow the salt bitch
• D528 Cowardly DOGS bark much
• D529 DOGS are fine in the field
• D530 DOGS bark more for custom than fierceness
• D531 DOGS barking aloof bite not at hand
• D532 DOGS begin in jest and end in earnest
• D533 DOGS must eat
• D534 DOGS run away with whole shoulders
• D535 DOGS will rid¹ swine
• D536 He sleeps as DOGS do when wives sift meal (bake)
• D537 He that lies down (goes to bed, sleeps) with DOGS must rise with fleas
• D538 Hungry DOGS will eat (love) dirty puddings
• D539 Like DOGS, if one barks all bark
• D540 Little DOGS start the hare but the great ones catch it
• D541 Many DOGS may easily worry one
• D542 Silly DOGS are more angry with the stone than with the hand that had flung it
• D543 To go to the DOGS
• D544 Two DOGS never agree about one bone
• D545 Two DOGS strive for a bone and the third runs away with it
• D546 To serve one a DOG TRICK
• D547 By DOING nothing we learn to do ill
• D548 In DOING we learn
• D549 One never loses by DOING good turns
• D550 Great DOINGS at Gregory's, heat the oven twice for a custard
• D551 There is great DOINGS in the North when they bar their doors with tailors
• D552 At the DOOR of the fold, words; within the fold, an account
• D553 The DOOR that is not opened to him that begs our alms will be opened to the physician
• D554 Every DOOR may be shut but death's door
• D555 He must stoop that has a low DOOR
• D556 Here is the DOOR and there is the way
• D556a I had rather go by his DOOR than over his grave
• D557 Make not the DOOR (entry) wider than the house
• D558 An open DOOR (gate) may tempt a saint
• D559 Out of DOOR out of debt
• D560 The postern DOOR (back door) makes thief and whore
• D561 Sweep before your own DOOR
• D562 To love at the DOOR and leave at the hatch
• D563 When one DOOR is shut another is open
• D564 At open DOORS dogs come in
• D565 Old enough to lie without DOORS
• D566 Well does he live within DOORS that is beloved without doors
• D567 As dead (deaf, dumb) as a DOORNAIL
• D568 As dull as (To sleep like) a DORMOUSE
• D569 Dorsetshire DORSERS
• D570 He will not put off his DOUBLET (clothes) before he goes to bed
• D571 He that casts all DOUBTS shall never be resolved
• D572 As innocent (harmless) as a DOVE
• D573 As loving (tame, patient) as a DOVE (pigeon)
• D574 DOVES (Pigeons) have no gall
• D575 DOVERCOURT, ¹ all speakers and no hearers
• D576 Over jolly DOW¹ not
• D577 A great DOWRY is a bed full of brabbles (brambles)
• D578 To expect, to expect, is worth four hundred DRACHMS
• D579 The DRACHM of the bottle
• D580 DRAFF is good enough for swine
• D581 DRAFF was his errand but drink he would have
• D582 Every DRAM of delight has a pound of pain
• D583 A DRAUGHT of hen's milk
• D584 It is sweet DRAWING in one line
• D585 After a DREAM of a wedding comes a corpse
• D586 It is a true DREAM that is seen waking
• D587 DREAMS are lies
• D588 DREAMS go by contraries
• D589 Golden DREAMS make men awake hungry
• D590 If DREAMS and wishes were true there would hardly be found a maid in all the nunneries of Christendom
• D591 Morning DREAMS are true
• D592 He never DREAMED of it
• D593 Many DRESSERS put the bride's dress out of order
• D594 Fine DRESSING is a foul house swept before the doors
• D595 DRIFT is as bad as unthrift
• D596 DRINK after grief goes merrily down
• D597 DRINK and drought come seldom together
• D598 DRINK but¹ bread makes all the town astir (house ado)
• D599 Drink off your DRINK and steal no lambs
• D600 He cares not how good his DRINK be so his bread be good
• D601 He was hanged that left his DRINK behind
• D602 Loath to the DRINK and loath from it
• D603 Such DRINK as will keep one in the right way
• D604 To snatch a DRINK like the dogs of Egypt (at the Nile)
• D605 Who likes not the DRINK God deprives him of bread
• D606 One cannot DRINK and whistle at once
• D607 He that never DRANK was never athirst (adry)
• D608 He has DRUNK more than he has bled
• D609 It is best DRINKING at the fountain (wellhead, spring)
• D610 It is good DRINKING of wine at another man's cost
• D611 Many speak of my great DRINKING but few of my sore thirst
• D612 I will make you know your DRIVER
• D613 As lost as a DROP of water in the sea
• D614 DROP by drop the sea is drained (the tub is filled)
• D615 The last DROP makes the full cup run over
• D616 Fat DROPS fall from fat flesh
• D617 Many (Small) DROPS make a shower (flood)
• D618 Constant DROPPING will wear the stone
• D619 He will not lose the DROPPINGS of his nose
• D620 He has the silver DROPSY
• D621 After DROUGHT comes rain
• D622 DROUGHT never brought dearth
• D623 He that fears DROWNING comes near no wells
• D624 Where DRUMS beat laws are silent
• D625 Ever DRUNK ever dry
• D626 The DRUNKARD is known by his snout (nose)
• D627 A DRUNKARD is not master of his own soul
• D628 Let but the DRUNKARD alone and he will fall of himself
• D629 A DRUNKARD's purse is a bottle
• D630 There are more old DRUNKARDS than old physicians
• D631 The DUCKS fare well in the Thames
• D632 To make DUCKS and drakes with one's money
• D633 When DUDMAN and Ramhead meet
• D634 Give everyone his DUE
• D635 He that loses his DUE gets no thanks
• D636 Like a DUKE? Like a duck
• D637 To dine with DUKE HUMPHREY¹
• D638 To be at DULCARNON
• D639 DUMMY¹ cannot lie
• D640 To be in the DUMPS
• D641 Norfolk DUMPLINGS
• D642 Draw DUN¹ out of the mire
• D643 DUN¹ is in the mire
• D644 DUN is the mouse
• D645 The DUNDER¹ do gally² the beans
• D646 As plain as DUNSTABLE¹ HIGHWAY (Plain Dunstable)
• D647 As dry as DUST
• D648 He that blows in the DUST fills his eyes with it
• D649 Play off your DUST
• D650 To cast DUST in a man's eyes
• D651 To lick (kiss) the DUST (ground)
• D652 What a DUST do I raise, said the fly upon the chariot wheel
• D653 While the DUST is on your feet sell what you have bought
• D654 As dull as a DUTCHMAN
• D655 The DUTCHMAN drinks his buttons off, the English doublet and away
• D656 The DUTCHMAN drinks pure wine in the morning, at noon wine without water, in the evening as it comes from the butt
• D657 DUTCHMEN (Hollanders) be wise (have their wits) in their hands
• D658 He that eats well and drinks well should do his DUTY well
• D659 A DWARF on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two