579 British Proverbs / Page 6
101. 
Children learn to creep before they can go.
102. 
Command your man, and do it yourself.
103. 
Counsel must be followed, not praised.
104. 
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.
105. 
Crowns have cares.
106. 
Custom without reason is but ancient error.
107. 
Debts remain from day to day.
108. 
Delays are not denials.
109. 
Do no business with a kinsman.
110. 
Do on the hill as you would do in the hall.
111. 
Don't cross the bridge till you get to it.
112. 
Don't cross your bridges before you come to them.
113. 
Don't eat the calf in the cow's belly.
114. 
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
115. 
Don't meet troubles half-way.
116. 
Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
117. 
Drive your business, do not let it drive you.
118. 
Dying men speak true.
119. 
Easter so longed for is gone in a day.
120. 
Ell and tell is good merchandise.
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