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| Latin Proverb - B
Bad beginnings lead to bad results.Bad fowl, bad egg.Bad head, bad heart.Bad is want which is born of plenty.Balder than a pestle.Bashfulness is an enemy to poverty.Bashfulness will not avail a beggar.Be angry with a murderer, but keep your compassion for his victim.Be brave, not ferocious.Be mine; I will be thine.Be not unmindful of obligations conferred.Be old betimes, if you wish your old age to last.Be on your guard against a silent dog and still water.Be what you appear to be. [Act up to the reputation which you enjoy.]Bear no malice.Bear with others and you shall be borne with.Beautiful things are secured with most difficulty.Being but a woman, raise not the sword. [Offer not assistance when you can be of no service.]Being warned, let us pursue a better course.Believe him who speaks from experience.Believe no man more than yourself when you are spoken of. [Let your own conscience be a check against the effect of the flattery of others.]Believe not that the stream is shallow because its surface is smooth.Believe nothing and be on your guard against everything.Believe that you have it, and it is yours.Better take time.Between the hand and the chin.Between two stools one falls to the ground.Beware of a silent dog and still water.Beware of the dog.
[Lat., Cave canem.]Birds fly not into our mouths ready roasted.Blinder than a beetle.Bold in design, but timid in execution.Bones snatched from the mouth of a hungry dog.Born of a white hen. [A lucky fellow.]Both are the better for their mutual friendship.Brag's a good dog, but Holdfast's a better.Branches may be trained; not the trunk.Brevity is pleasing.Bright enough in the dark, dull in time of day. [Learned in what is of no use, ignorant of everything at all available.]Build but one nest in one tree.But now I was a rich man, three things have left me bare; dice, wine, and women, these three have made me poor.By a brave endurance of unavoidable evils, we conquer them.By doing nothing men learn to do evil.By good means or bad.By good nature and kindness even fierce spirits become tractable.By his claw the lion.
[Lat., Ex ungue leonem.]By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.By main force.By much laughter you detect the fool.By perseverance the Greeks reached Troy.By pleasing, while we instruct.By repeated blows even the oak is felled.By speedy, not by slow measures.By submitting to an old insult you invite a new one.By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured.By the familiarity of the master the servant is spoilt.By the hands of many a great work is made light.By the whole heavens. [As wide asunder as the poles.]By what servant is his master better loved than by his dog?By writing you learn to write. |
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