| PROVERB |
| Call a spade a spade. |
| A cat has nine lives. |
| A cat may look at a king. |
| Catch your bear before you sell its skin. |
| Charity begins at home. |
| The child is father of the man. |
| Children should be seen and not heard. |
| Christmas comes but once a year. |
| Cleanliness is next to godliness. |
| Clothes do not make the man. |
| Constant dripping wears away the stone. |
| A constant guest is never welcome. |
| Courtesy costs nothing. |
| Cowards die many times before their deaths. |
| Cross the stream where it is shallowest. |
| Cut your coat according to your cloth. |
| Deeds, not words. |
| The devil finds work for idle hands to do. |
| The devil is not so black as he is painted. |
| Diamond cut diamond. |
| Do as I say, not as I do. |
| Do as most men do, then most men will speak well of you. |
| Don't change horses in mid-stream. |
| Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. |
| Don't cross a bridge till you come to it. |
| Don't cry before you are hurt. |
| Don't cut the bough you are standing on. |
| Don't empty the baby out with the bath water. |
| Do not kick against the pricks. |
| Don't make a mountain out of a molehill. |
| Don't make a rod for your own back. |
| Don't make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you. |
| Don't pour out the dirty water before you have clean. |
| Do not put all your eggs in the same basket. |
| Do not put new wine into old bottles. |
| Don't put the cart before the horse. |
| Don't tell tales out of school. |
| Do not wash your dirty linen in public. |
| A door must be either shut or open. |
| A drowning man will clutch at a straw. |
| A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees the farther of the two. |
| Call no man happy till he is dead. |
| Care killed a cat. |
| Cast not the first stone. |
| Catch not at the shadow and lose the substance. |
| Caveat emptor. |
| Charity covers a multitude of sins. |
| Circumstances alter cases. |
| Coming events cast their shadows before. |
| Comparisons are odious. |
| Conscience does make cowards of us all. |
| A contented mind is a perpetual feast. |
| The course of true love never did run smooth. |
| The cowl does not make the monk. |
| A creaking gate hangs long. |
| Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. |
| Custom makes all things easy. |
| Custom reconciles us to everything. |
| The darkest hour is that before the dawn. |
| Dead men tell no tales. |
| Death is the great leveller. |
| Desires are nourished by delays. |
| Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies. |
| The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. |
| The devil take the hindmost. |
| Discontent is the first step in progress. |
| Discretion is the better part of valour. |
| Distance lends enchantment to the view. |
| Do as you would be done by. |
| Do not cast your pearls before swine. |
| Dog does not eat dog. |
| Don't cry stinking fish. |
| Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. |
| Do not halloo till you are out of the woods. |
| Don't have too many irons in the fire. |
| Don't meet trouble half-way. |
| Do not quarrel with your bread and butter. |
| Don't ride the high horse. |
| Don't speak to the man at the wheel. |
| Don't take your harp to the party. |
| Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs. |
| Do not wear out your welcome. |
| Dying is as natural as living. |
