| 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. |
