Proverbs By Language

"Love me, love my dog."

"Let sleeping dogs lie. (14th century)"

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"Variant: A man is known by the company he keeps."

"If you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas."

"He that would hang his dog gives out first that he is mad."

"Give a dog a bad name and he'll live up to it."

"Every dog has his day. (1546)"

"Dogs wags their tails, not as much to you as to your bread. (Strauss, 1994 p. 710)"

"The dogs bark but the caravan passes on. (Strauss, 1998 p. 340)"

"̈*̈ "If your gonna impress someone it should be yourself.""

"Brag is a good dog, but holdfast is better."

"Barking dogs seldom bite."

"All are not thieves that dogs bark at."

"A staff is quickly found to beat a dog. (Strauss, 1998 p. 103)"

"A dog will not howl if you beat him with a bone. (1659)"

"Never lie to your doctor."

"Hide nothing from thy minister, physician and lawyer."

"God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. (1640)"

""Well done" is better than "well said"."

"If you want a thing done right, do it yourself."

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

"Better go about than fall into the ditch. (Ward, 1842 p. 11)"

"We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. (Sir Thomas Browne)"

"Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies."

"Cure the disease and kill the patient. (Francis Bacon)"

"Discussion: a method of confirming others in their errors. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Discretion is the better part of valor."

"An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. (Mieder 2006, p. 906)"

"Who digs a trap for others ends up in it himself."

"Where God has a church the devil will have his chapel."

"Talk of the devil and he's sure to appear."

"If you sup with the devil, use a long spoon."

"Idle hands are the devil's playthings."

"Give the devil his due."

"Better the devil you know (than the one you don't)."

"Away goes the devil if he finds the door shut against him."

"First deserve, then desire."

"A parish demagogue. (P. B. Shelley)"

"There is danger in delay. (Strauss, 1998 p. 695)"

"Delays are dangerous. (14th century)"

"The best defence is a good offence. (Strauss, 1994 p. 518)"

"In the deepest water is the best fishing. (1616)"

"Deep calls to deep. (Strauss 1994, p. 695)"

"It's safer to commend the dead than the living."

"In the long run we are all dead."

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

"The day is short and the work is long. (15th century)"

"Enjoy the present day, trusting little to what tomorrow may bring."

"Praise the day at sunset."