Diligence is the mother of success.    勤奮是成功之母.
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.    挫折是智慧的保姆。
Discontent is the first step in progress.    不知足是前進中的第一步.
Discretion is the better part of valour.    小心即大勇.
Disease of the soul are more dangerous than those of the body.    心靈上的疾病比肉體上的疾病更危險.
Disease, enemy, and debt --these three must be cut off as soon as they begin to grow.    病，仇與債這三者，一露苗頭就砍掉.
Diseases are the price of ill pleasures.    疾病是不正當娛樂的代價.
Diseases come on horseback, but go away on foot.    病來如山倒，病去如抽絲.
Disgraced may be he who thinks ill.    心懷不端的人是可恥的.
Do as I say, not as I do.     照我說的做，別照我做的做。
Do as most men do and men will speak well of thee.    為眾之所為，受眾之所夸.
Do as the Romans do.    入鄉要隨俗.
Do as you would be done by.    推己及人.
Do business, but be not a slave to it.    要做事，但不要做事務的奴隸.
Do in Rome as the Romans do.    入鄉隨俗.
Do it now.    機不可失，時不再來。
Do no through fear of poverty surrender liberty.    不要因為怕貧苦而放棄自由.
Do not all you can, spend not all you have; believe not all you hear; and tell not all you know.    不要為所能為，不要花盡所有，不要全信所聞，不要言盡所知.
Do not cut down the tree that gives you shade.    不要忘恩負義.
Do not despise your enemy.    萬勿輕敵.
Do not give a dog bread every time he wags his tail.    不要有求必應.
Do not praise a day before sunset.    切勿褒貶過早.
Do not run too fast after gain.    不要見利就拼命追.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.    不要向不如你幸運的人述說你的幸福.
Do not swap horses when crossing a stream.    處在危難中，不宜大更動.
Do not to others what you do not wish them to do to you.    己所不欲，勿施于人.
Do not wash dirty linen in public.    家丑不可外揚.
Do nothing by halves.    凡事不可半途而廢。
Do one's level best.    盡力而為.
Do well and have well.    善有善報。
Do well is better than say well.    說得好不如做得好.
Dog does not eat dog.    物不傷其類.
Dogs that bark at a distance bite not at hand.    遠處叫得兇的狗，不會近身來咬人.
Dogs that run after many hares kill none.    多謀寡成.
Dogs wag their tails not so much in love to you as your bread.    狗搖尾巴，愛的是面包.
Doing is better than saying.    行勝于言.
Don’t carry coals to Newcastle.    別往紐卡斯爾（英國煤都）運煤。/ 多此一舉，徒勞無益。
"Don’t meet trouble half-way.
"    不要杞人憂天。
Don’t trouble troubles till trouble troubles you.    麻煩未來找你，別去自找麻煩。
Don't carry coals to Newcastle.    別往紐卡斯爾（英國煤都）運煤。/ 多此一舉，徒勞無益。
Don't cast out the foul water till you bring in the clean.    清水未來，莫潑贓水.
Don't claim to know what you don't know.    不要不懂裝懂。
Don't cross the bridge till you get to it.    不要杞人憂天.
Don't fly till you wings are feathered.    羽毛未豐不要飛.
Don't halloo till you are out of the wood.    沒有脫離危險不要先歡呼.
Don't have thy cloak to make when it begins to rain.    切莫臨時抱佛腳.
Don't have too many irons in the fire.    不要攬事過多。
Don't make a mountain out of a molehill.    不要小題大做。
Don't meet trouble half-way.     勿杞人憂天。
Don't play games with me!    別跟我耍花招!
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.     勿孤注一擲。
Don't put off till tomorrow what should be done today.    今日事，今日畢.
Don't put the cart before the horse.    不要本末倒置。
Don't ride the high horse.　     勿擺架子。
Don't speak all you know, but know all you speak.    不要盡言所知，而要盡知所言.
Don't throw out your dirty water before you get in fresh.    清水未打來，贓水莫倒掉.
Don't trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.    不要自尋煩惱.
Don't try to teach your grandmother to suck eggs.    不要班門弄斧。
Don't whistle until you are out of the wood.    沒有脫離險境，不要過早高興.
Dot the i's and cross the t's.    一點一劃，循規蹈矩.
Doubt is the key of knowledge.    懷疑乃知識的鑰匙.
Downy lips make thoughtless slips.    嘴上沒毛，辦事不牢.
Draw not your bow till your arrow is fixed.    事未齊備，切莫妄動.
Draw water with a sieve.    竹籃子打水一場空.
Dreams go by contraries.    夢想總與現實相反.
Drive your business, do not let it drive you.    要推動事業，不要讓事業來推動你.
Drop by drop the oceans are filled; stone by stone the walls are built.    滴水匯大海，壘石誅高墻.
Drowning man will catch at a straw.    溺水的人一根草也要抓.
Drumming is not the way to catch a hare.    空話連篇于事無補.
Drunken days have all their tomorrows.    今日花天酒地，明日潦倒窮途.
Drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals.    酒后露真言.
Dumb dogs are dangerous.    啞犬最兇惡.
Dying is as natural as living.    死亡與生存一樣自然.
Each bird love to hear himself sing.    孤芳自賞。
Each bird loves to hear himself sing.    鳥兒都愛聽自己唱歌.
Each day brings its own bread.    天無絕人之路.
Eagles catch no flies.    大人物不計較小事情.
Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.    鷹單飛，羊群集.
Early mistakes are the seeds of future trouble.    早期的錯誤可以釀成日后的麻煩.
Early sow, early mow.    播種早的收獲早.
Early start makes easy stages.    早開始是成功的保證.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.    早睡早起身體好。
Early wed, early dead.    早婚早夭.
Easier said than done.    說話容易做事難.
East or west, home is best.    在家千日好，出門時時難.
"East or west, home is best.
"    行遍天下路，還是在家好。
Easy come, easy go.    易得易失.
Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.    隨意吃飯，適度飲酒.
Eat one's cake and have it.    又要馬兒好，又要馬兒不吃草.
Eat to live, but not live to eat.    吃飯是為了生存，但生存不是為了吃飯.
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.    吃是使自己受用，穿是使別人受用.
Eating and drinking takes away one’s stomach.    少吃多滋味，多吃少滋味。
Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.    人的教養始于教育，成于社交.
Education has for its object the formation of character.    教育的目的在于培養品德.
Elbow grease gives the best polish.    只要功夫深，鐵杵磨成針.
Empty vessels make the greatest sound.    空桶響聲大.
Empty vessels make the most noise.    滿罐水不響，半罐響叮當。
"Empty vessels make the most sound.
"    滿瓶不響，半瓶丁當。
Enough is as good as a feast.    知足常樂.
Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peak.    高位遭人妒，高峰招風吹.
Envy has no holidays.    忌妒之人無寧日。
Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.    支支吾吾，其言必詐.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; he who would search for pearls must dive below.    錯誤像稻草，漂浮在水面.欲覓珍珠者，須往水下潛.
Even a small star shines in the darkness.    星星再小，也會發光。
Even a worm will turn.    反抗是自然的，甚至一條蟲也會翻身。
Even Homer sometimes nods.    人非圣賢，孰能無過.
Even reckoning makes long friends.    親兄弟，明算賬。
Even the best of friends must part.    天下無不散的宴席。
Even the walls have ears.    隔墻有耳.
Every advantage has its disadvantage.    有利必有幣.
Every bean has its black.    人人有其缺點.
Every bird likes its own nest.    人愛其家.
Every brave man is a man of his word.    勇敢的人都是信守諾言的人.
Every bullet has its billet.    無風不起浪.
Every cloud has a silver lining.    山窮水盡疑無路，柳暗花明又一村.
Every cock crows on its own dunghill.    夜郎自大.
Every cook praises his own broth.    自吹自擂.
Every country has its customs.    鄉有鄉俗.
Every couple is not a pair.    同床異夢，貌合神離.
Every day is not Sunday.    好景不常在，好花不常開.
Every day of thy life is a leaf in thy history.    生命中的一天就是你歷史上的一頁.
Every dog has his day, and every man his hour.    人人都有得意的日子.
Every dog has his day.    誰都有得意的時候。
Every dog is a lion at home.    夜郎自大.
Every dog is valiant at his own door.    狗在家門前條條都兇悍.
Every door may be shut but death’s door.    除了死亡之門以外，每扇門都可以被關閉。
Every door may be shut but death's door.    除了死門外，每門都可關.
Every door may be shut, but death's door.    人生在世，唯死難逃。
Every extremity is a fault.    萬事過分都差誤.
Every fool can find faults that wise man cannot remedy.    蠢人也能找出聰明人無法彌補的岔子來的.
Every heart has its own ache.    每個人都有各自的苦痛。
Every heart has its own sorrow.    人人都有傷心處.
Every horse thinks his sack heaviest.    每疋馬認為自己馱的袋子重.
Every Jack has his Jill.    有情人終成眷屬.
Every little helps a mickle.    聚沙成塔，集腋成裘。
Every little makes a mickle.    積少成多.
Every lover sees a thousand graces in the beloved object.    情人眼里出西施.
Every man for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost.    人不為己，天誅地滅。
Every man has a fool in his sleeve.    聰明一世，糊涂一時.
Every man has his faults.    人孰無過.
Every man has his hobbyhorse.    蘿卜青菜，各有所愛。
Every man has his hobby-horse.    人各有所好.
Every man has his liking.    人各有所好.
Every man has his weak side.    人人都有自己的弱點.
Every man has the defects of his qualities.    一個人的好品質上也有不足之處.
Every man is his own worst enemy.     一個人最大的敵人就是他自己。
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.    每個人都是他自己命運的建誅師.
Every man is the master of his own fortune.    每個人都是他自己的命運的主宰.
Every man is the son of his own works.    種瓜得瓜，種豆得豆.
Every man thinks his own geese swans.    每個人都以為自己的東西了不起.
Every minute counts.    分秒必爭。
Every mother's child is handsome.    老王賣瓜，自賣自夸.
Every one's faults are not written in their foreheads.    知人知面不知心.
Every pleasure has a pain.    樂中必有苦.
Every potter praises his own pot.    老王賣瓜，自賣自夸.
Every potter praises hit pot.    王婆賣瓜，自賣自夸。
Every rule has its exception.    一切規則皆有例外。
Every salesman boasts of his own wares.    老王賣瓜，自賣自夸.
Every shoe fits not every foot.    不能以己度人.
Every tide hath its ebb.    興盛之日必有衰退之時.
Every tree is known by its own fruit.    觀其言行，知其為人.
Every why has a wherefore.    事出有因.
Everybody's business is nobody's business.    人人都管，大家不管.
Everyone is dissatisfied with his own fortune.    人對自己的命運總不感滿足.
Everyone to his taste.     人各有所好。
Everything comes to him who waits.    安心等待必有好處.
Everything has its seed.    無風不起浪.
Everything has its time and that time must be watched.    任何事情都有好的時機，不要隨意放過.
Everything hath an end.    任何事物都有它的結果.
Everything is good in its season.    萬物逢時皆美好.
Everything is good when new, but friend when old.    東西新的好，朋友老的好.
Everything is good when new, but friends when old.    東西是新的好，朋友是老的親。
Everything is nice in your garden.    老王賣瓜，自賣自夸.
Everything must have a beginning.    凡是都有起源.