Bad gains are true losses. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Bad is called good when worse happens. Norwegian (on relative worth)
Be careful what you ask for; you may get it. - unknown
Be careful what you wish for. - unknown
Be ever vigilant but never suspicious. - English (on vigilance)
Be gracious in defeat. - unknown
Be it ever so humble there’s no place like home. - unknown
Be just before you are generous. - E. Haywood (1745)
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet ‘em on your way down. - Jimmy Durante
Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel and countenance. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Be not overcome by evil but repay evil with good. - Bible
Be not water, taking the tint of all colors. - Syrian (on authenticity)
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower still in changing. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Be sure you are right, then go ahead. - Davy Crockett (1786-1836)
Be the change you wish to see in the world. - Ghandi
Be the first in the field and the last to the couch. - Chinese (on work)
Be true to yourself. - unknown
Bear and forbear. - unknown
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. - Greek Proverb
Beauty is only skin deep. - Sir Thomas Overbury (1581-1613)
Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume. - French (on beauty)
Because we focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion. - Egyptian (on caution and care)
Before healing others, heal yourself.- Gambian (on health and wellness)
Before you marry keep both eyes open; after marriage keep one eye shut.- Jamaican (on marriage)
Beggars can’t be choosers. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
Beginning is easy; continuing, hard. - Japanese (on permanence and change)
Behind every argument lies someone’s ignorance. - Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)
Being happy is better than being king. - Hausa (West African) (on comparable worth)
Believe in yourself. - unknown
Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see. - unknown
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. - Chinese (on comparable worth)
Better a thousand enemies outside the tent than one within it. - Arabic (on friends and foes)
Better late than never. - Roman Proverb
Better one true friend than a hundred relatives. - Italian (on friendship)
Better slip with foot than tongue. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Better ten times ill than one time dead.- Yiddish (on health and wellness)
Better the devil you know than the one you don’t - R. Taverner (1539)
Better to ask the way than go astray. - unknown
Better to ask twice than to lose your way. - Danish (on practicality)
Better to be safe than sorry. - Samuel Lover (1797-1868)
Better to give than to receive. - Bible (Acts 20:35)
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Better yourself before others. - Darren Bateman
Beware a rickety wall, a savage dog and a quarrelsome person. - Iranian (on caution and care)
Beware of little expenses: a small leak will sink a great ship. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Beware of the person with two faces.- Dutch (on hypocrisy)
Beware the door with too many keys. - Portuguese (on vigilance)
Beware the fury of a patient man. - John Dryden (1631-1700)
Beware the Greeks bearing gifts. - Virgil (70-19 BC)
Beware the person with nothing to lose. - Italian (on prudence)
Birds of a feather, flock together. - Robert Burton (1577-1640)
Blood is thicker than water. - German Proverb
Bloom where you’re planted. - unknown
Boys, be ambitious. - William Smith
Brains are better than brawn. - unknown
Bread, oil, Salt and Heart - Albanian ( on honoring the guest)
Bury the hatchet beneath the root of the tree. - Native American Saying (on war and peace)
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. - Albert Camus
Butterflies come to pretty flowers. - Korean (on beauty)
Buyer beware. - Latin Proverb “Caveat emptor”
Buying on credit is robbing next year’s crop. - African American (on buying and selling)
By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
By crawling, a child learns to stand. - Hausa (West African) (on experience)
By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest. -
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