1. Actions speak louder than words. 事實勝于雄辯。

2. Advice when most needed is least heeded. 忠言逆耳。

3. Ask no questions and be told no lies. * 不問問題就不會受騙。

4. Avoid a questioner, for he is also a tattler. 好問是非者，恰是是非之人。

5. Barking dogs seldom bite. 色厲內荏。

6. Better the foot slip than the tongue trip. 寧肯失足，不要失言。

7. The bird is known by his note, the man by his words. 聞音知鳥，聞言知人。

8. Cast not the first stone. * 切莫首先指責別人。

9. Children should be seen and not heard. 童者應視其行，而勿信其言。

10. Curses, like chickens, come home to roost. 害人反害已。

11. Dead men tell no tales. 死無對證。

12. Deeds, not words. 莫坐而論道，應身體力行。

13. Do as I say, not as I do. 依其言而行事，勿觀其行而仿之。

14. Do as you would be done by. 已所不欲者勿施于人。

15. Don't cry before you are hurt. 不要危險未來先喊娘。

16. Don't cry stinking fish. 不要妄自菲薄。

17. Don't make yourself a mouse, or the cat will eat you. 不要自貶身價，以免被人看輕。

18. Don't speak to the man at the wheel. 不要打擾負責你自己安全的人。

19. Don't take your harp to the party. 勿反復羅嗦。

20. Don't teach your grandmother to suck eggs. 莫班門弄斧。