Idioms, Proverbs and Wise sayings across the world

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