Alphabetical List. Proverbs and Quotes starting from B

Bad news travels fast.

Barking dogs seldom bite.

Be a good sport - wherever you go.

Be first at the feast, and last at the fight.

Be just before you are generous.

Be kind to people on the way up, you may need them when you are on your way down

Be slow in choosing, but slower in changing.

Beautiful is not what is beautiful, but what one likes

Beauty and Honesty Seldom Agree.

Beauty is but skin deep.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume

Beer before wine is fine Wine before beer makes you feel queer!

Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails

Before enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water; after enlightenment, I chopped wood and carried water.

Before you meet the handsome prince you have to kiss a lot of toads.

Beggars and borrowers cannot be choosers.

Begin with a big bang and end with a bust.

Behind every great man there’s a great woman.

Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see

Best to bend it while it's a twig.

Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.

Better a meal of vegetables where there is love than a fattened calf with hatred.

Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse.

Better be alone than in bad company.

Better be the head of a dog then the tail of a lion.

Better be the head of a lizard than the tail of a lion.

Better bend than break.

Better die with honor than live with shame.

Better do it than wish it done.

Better flatter a fool than fight him.

Better have an egg today than a hen tomorrow.

Better late than never.

Better late thrive than never do well.

Better lose the saddle than the horse.

Better one house spoiled than two

Better safe than sorry.

Better some of a pudding than none of a pie.

Better the devil you know than the devil you do not.

Better to aim high and miss, than to aim low and reach target!

Better to be envied than pitied.

Better to be lowly in spirit and among the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud

Better to be poor and healthy rather than rich and sick.

Better to drink the milk than to eat the cow.

Better to go back than go wrong.

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

Better to have than to wish.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Better to meet a bear robbed of her cubs than a fool in his folly.

Better to remain silent and appear a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Better to wear out than rust out.

Better untaught than ill-taught

Better wed over the mixen than over the moor.

Between two stools, one falls to the ground. To straddle the fence.

Big fish eat little fish.

Big mouthfuls often choke.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Birth is much, breeding is more.

Bitter pills may have blessed effects.

Blessings Are Not Valued Until They Are Gone.

Blethers say nought

Blood is thicker than water.

Blue are the hills that are far away.

Books and friends should be few and good.

Borrowed Garments Never Fit Well.

Box of tricks.

Boxed in.

Brain is better than brawn.

Bread is the staff of life.

Bread never falls but on its buttered side.

Brevity is the soul of wit (Shakespeare),

Bring up a raven and he will peck out your eyes.

Broken bones well set become stronger.Storm Makes oaks take deeper root.

Broken in two.

Burn not your house to fright the mouse away.

Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, lead at night.

By hook or by crook.