Proverb: Bachelors’ wives and maids’ children are always well taught.
English Meaning: To be worried about things that do not matter.
Proverb: Barking dogs seldom bite .
English Meaning: Angry words and threats lead to nothing worse; much cry and little wool.
Proverb: Be born with a silver spoon in one’s mouth .
English Meaning: Be born into wealth and privilege
Proverb: Be mindful of your wife, kine and paddy.
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Proverb: Be sure before you marry of a house wherein to tarry.
English Meaning: Think twice before you take a risk.
Proverb: Be true to your salt.
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Proverb: Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.
English Meaning: Different people have different ideas about what is beautiful.
Proverb: Beggars must not be choosers.
English Meaning: Those who seek favour must accept any term.
Proverb: Beggars on horseback will ride to the devil.
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Proverb: Better alone than in bad company.
English Meaning: Shun evil company.
Proverb: Better an empty house than an ill tenant .
English Meaning: Better alone than in evil company
Proverb: Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion .
English Meaning: It is better to be the leader of a less prestigious group than to be a subordinate in a more prestigious one.
Proverb: Better late than never .
English Meaning: It is better to do a thing later than never.
Proverb: Between the devil and the deep blue sea or, between a rock and a hard place.
English Meaning: Between Scylla and Charybdis, between two fires.
Proverb: Between two fires or Between the devil and the deep sea.
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Proverb: Beware of Greeks bearing gifts .
English Meaning: Do not trust an opponent who offers to do something nice for you.
Proverb: Birds of a feather flock together .
English Meaning: Like draws like, all thieves are cousins
Proverb: Birds of the same feather.
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Proverb: Birds of the same feather flock together.
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Proverb: Black will take no other hue .
English Meaning: An Ethiopian will never change his skin; one cannot change his nature; the leopard cannot change its spots.
Proverb: Blessings are not valued till they are gone.
English Meaning: Men are always neglectful to their blessings.
Proverb: Blood is thicker than water.
English Meaning: The tie of kindred is real.
Proverb: Blossoms in the dust or Musk in a kennel.
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Proverb: Blue are the hills that are far from us .
English Meaning: Distance lends enchantment to the view, grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter.
Proverb: Breed up a crow, and it will pluck your eyes.
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Proverb: Brevity is the soul of wit .
English Meaning: A few qualified things are preferable to a lot of unqualified things.
Proverb: Bright gem in a dark cave.
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Proverb: Build castles in the air.
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Proverb: Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.
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Proverb: Burn not your house to fright the mouse away .
English Meaning: Don’t cut your nose to spite another’s face.
Proverb: Busy about nothing or No work, no leisure or It is all bustle.
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