Great Throughts Treasury

"Don't ask the old one, ask the experienced one."

"Don't be afraid of a loss, then you will get profit."

"Don't be afraid of the dog who barks, but be afraid of the one, who is silent and wags its tail."

"Do not teach a pike to swim, a pike knows his own science. (Do not tell or show somebody how to do something that he can do perfectly well and propably better than you yourself)"

"Don't buy the house; buy the neighborhood."

"Don't dig a pit for somebody to fall into, or you will end up in it yourself."

"Don't cast beads before (in front of) pigs."

"Don't hack the branch you are sitting on."

"Don't have a friend who always agrees with you, but have a friend who argues with you."

"Don't look at the teeth of a horse you've been given."

"Don't open your mouth to eat other people's bread."

"Don't wade into a river without knowing a ford."

"Don't raise your stick and the dog won't bark at you."

"Don't say hop, until you jumped over."

"Don't wake up trouble while it sleeps quietly."

"Drowning man clutches at straw. (Anyone in desperate circumstances will try every possible means to escape from danger or difficulty even though he knows it is unlikely to be successful)"

"Dreams are dreadful but God is merciful."

"Each time it is different."

"Eat what is cooked, listen to what is said."

"Eat bread and salt, cut the mother truth"

"Education is light, lack of it is darkness."

"Eggs cannot teach a hen. (Do not give advice to someone who is more experienced than you; do not teach a person who is wiser and more knowledgeable)"

"Even the sword doesn't cut the head of the one who confesses."

"Even truth gets drowned when gold comes to the surface."

"Even walls have ears."

"Every cricket must know its hearth"

"Every nag imagines himself to be a fancy trotter."

"Eggs don't teach the hen."

"Either your chest will be arrayed in medals or your head will be in the bushes."

"Eternal peace lasts only until the next war"

"Even in Hell the peasant will have to serve the landlord, for, while the landlord is boiling in a cauldron the peasant will have to put wood under it"

"Even a cat appreciates kind words."

"Extinguish the spark before the the house is on fire, deflect the trouble before its strike."

"Every seed knows its time -- All in good time (One should not be impatient and hasten events; everything will work out after some time, but not immediately)"

"Every sandpiper praises its own swamp. (Every man praises what is familiar and dear to him)"

"Eyes are (might be) afraid, but hands are doing the job."

"Fear has big eyes."

"Everything is funny as along as it happens to someone else."

"Every vegetable has its time."

"Every ruble bears a sin."

"Expensive medicines are always good: if not for the patient, at least for the druggist."

"Failure teaches you more than success."

"Fear the goat from the front, the horse from the rear, and man from all sides."

"Fools are not sown or reaped, they appear by themselves."

"Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."

"Fish look for deeper waters and men for where it's better."

"For every one with a plow — there're seven with a spoon."

"For each wise man there are plenty of fools."

"For a big ship, a big voyage."

"For a drunken one, a sea is knee-deep (, and a puddle ear-deep)."