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- Christmas comes but once a year but when it comes it brings good cheer – Unknown
- Civility costs nothing – Unknown
- Cleanliness is the luxury of the poor – Mexican
- Cleverness and stupidity go together – Ovambo ( Angola)
- Cold hands, warm heart – English
- Cold preachers make bold sinners. – U.S
- Constant dripping wears away the stone – English
- Create waves without wind. – Chinese
- Criticizing another person’s farm does not keep weed out of your own farm – African
- Crows are black the whole world over – Chinese
- Curses like chickens come home to roost. – Jamaican
- Dead men tell no tales – Pirates of the Caribbean
- Death is the great leveler – Unknown
- Death never comes too late – Irish
- Desperate search does not cause finding – Nigeria
- Desperate situations call for desperate measures – Hippocrates
- Different strokes for different folks. – U.S
- Distance promotes close friendship – India
- Divide and Conquer – Unknown
- Do as you would be done by – Leviticus 19:18, Matthew 7:12
- Do not go between a spear and a bull. – Ovambo (Africa)
- Do not remove a fly from your friend’s forehead with a hatchet – Chinese
- Do not speak of a rhinoceros if there is no tree nearby. – South Africa
- Do not stand in a place of danger trusting in miracles. – Arabic
- Do not strike while the iron is cold. – Lebanese
- Dog does not eat dog – Unknown
- Don’t visit the home of your friend often because you may end up annoying him – African
- Don’t climb a tree to look for fish – Chinese
- Don’t cross the bridge till you come to it – English
- Don’t curse the darkness—light a candle – Chinese
- Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face – English
- Don’t cut without first measuring. – Iranian
- Don’t drown the man who taught you to swim – Charles H. Spurgeon
- Don’t kick a your fellow man when he’s down. – U.S
- Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg – Aesop’s Fable
- Don’t put all your eggs in one basket – Spanish
- Don’t put the roof on when the rain is wetting you. – Nigerian
- Don’t throw away the baby with the bathwater – English
- Don’t throw out the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water – Swedish
- Don’t wash your dirty linen in the public – French
