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This resource includes the best-known proverbs in the English language from around the world with quotations that provide a history of each proverb. Discover the story behind "Never say never," "It takes one to know one," and "Once bitten, twice shy."
On this page: bid: Never bid the Devil good morrow until you meet him to buyer: The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one.

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bid: Never bid the Devil good morrow until you meet him

big: Big fish eat little fish

big: Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum

bigger: The bigger they are, the harder they fall

bird: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

bird: A bird never flew on one wing

birds: Birds in their little nests agree

birds: Birds of a feather flock together

birds: Little birds that can sing and won't sing must be made to sing

birds: There are no birds in last year's nest

bleating: A bleating sheep loses a bite

blessed: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed

blessings: Blessings brighten as they take their flight

blind: A blind man's wife needs no paint

blind: There's none so blind as those who will not see

blind: When the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch

blood: Blood is thicker than water

blood: Blood will have blood

blood: Blood will tell

blood: The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church

blood: You cannot get blood from a stone

blue: Blue are the hills that are far away

book: You can't tell a book by its cover

born: If you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned

borrower: Neither a borrower nor a lender be

boy: Never send a boy to do a man's job

boy: You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy

boys: Boys will be boys

boys: Two boys are half a boy, and three boys are no boy at all

brag: Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better

brave: Brave men lived before Agamemnon

brave: None but the brave deserve the fair

bread: The bread never falls but on its buttered side

bred: What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh

brevity: Brevity is the soul of wit

brew: As you brew, so shall you bake

bricks: You cannot make bricks without straw

bride: Happy is the bride that the sun shines on

bridesmaid: Always a bridesmaid, never a bride

bridge: It is good to make a bridge of gold to a flying enemy

broke: If it ain't broke, don't fix it

bullet: Every bullet has its billet

bully: A bully is always a coward

burnt: A burnt child dreads the fire

busiest: The busiest men have the most leisure

business: Business before pleasure

buy: Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest

buy: You buy land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones

buyer: Let the buyer beware

buyer: The buyer has need of a hundred eyes, the seller of but one

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