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| German Proverb - B
Bad bird, bad egg.Bad eyes never see any good.Bad money always comes back.Bad tidings always come too soon.Bad ware must be cried up.Bargains are costly.Be as you would seem to be.Be my brother, or I will bash your head in.Be not ashamed of your craft.Be silent, or say something better than silence.Be the thing you would be called.Bear and bull catch no fox.Beauty is a good letter of introduction.Begin to weave and God will give the thread.Beginning and ending shake hands.Begun is half done.Better a friendly denial than an unwilling compliance.Better a lean agreement than a fat lawsuit.Better a lean peace than a fat victory.Better a living dog than a dead lion.Better a patch than a hole.Better an honest enemy than a false friend.Better an unjust peace than a just war.Better ask twice than go wrong once.Better badly mounted than proud on foot.Better envy than pity.Better free in a foreign land than a serf at home.Better give nothing than stolen alms.Better is an enemy to good.Better is better.Better one living word than a hundred dead ones.Better something than nothing at all.Better to go to bed supperless than run in debt.Better, There he goes, than There he hangs.Between a woman's "Yes" and "No" there is no room for the point of a needle.Between neighbours' gardens a hedge is not amiss.Between the hand and the lip the soup may be spilt.Between wording and working is a long road.Between wrangling and disputing truth is lost.Beware of laughing hosts and weeping priests.Big churches, little saints.Birds of prey do not sing.Bitter pills are gilded.Black cows give white milk.Borrowing does well only once.Both legs in the stocks or only one, 'tis all the same.Bread in one hand, a stone in the other.Build golden bridges for the flying foe.Buy when it is market time.Buy your neighbour's ox, and woo your neighbour's daughter.Buyers want a hundred eyes, sellers only one.Buying is cheaper than asking. |
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