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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."
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bad: A bad excuse is better than none

bad: A bad penny always turns up

bad: A bad workman blames his tools

bad: Bad money drives out good

bad: Bad news travels fast

bad: Bad things come in threes

bad: There is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes

bake: As you bake, so shall you brew

barking: A barking dog never bites

barnaby: Barnaby bright, Barnaby bright, the longest day and the shortest night

be: Be what you would seem to be

bear: Bear and forbear

beat: If you can't beat them, join them

beauty: Beauty draws with a single hair

beauty: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

beauty: Beauty is only skin-deep

bees: Where bees are, there is honey

beggar: Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll ride to the Devil

beggars: Beggars can't be choosers

believe: Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see

bellowing: A bellowing cow soon forgets her calf

best: All's for the best in the best of all possible worlds

best: It is best to be on the safe side

best: The best is the enemy of the good

best: The best of friends must part

best: The best of men are but men at best

best: The best things come in small packages

best: The best things in life are free

best: The best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley

better: Better a dinner of herbs than a stalled ox where hate is

better: Better a good cow than a cow of a good kind

better: Better are small fish than an empty dish

better: Better be an old man's darling, than a young man's slave

better: Better be envied than pitied

better: Better be out of the world than out of the fashion

better: Better be safe than sorry

better: Better late than never

better: Better one house spoiled than two

better: Better the devil you know than the devil you don't know

better: Better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all

better: Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness

better: Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep

better: Better to marry than to burn

better: Better to wear out than to rust out

better: Better wed over the mixen than over the moor

better: It is better to be born lucky than rich

better: It is better to give than to receive

better: It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

better: The better the day, the better the deed

between: Between two stools one falls to the ground

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