Proverb Examples from around the world

Proverbs Starting with letter B - part 4
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Buyers want a hundred eyes, sellers none.
Buyers want a hundred eyes, sellers only one.
Buying a cat in a bag.

Buying is cheaper than asking.
Buying on credit is robbing next year's crop.
By Rachel your younger daughter.
By Sen'ka (Russian name, short of Vsevolod) also the hat.
By a brave endurance of unavoidable evils, we conquer them.
By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible.
By asking the impossible you will get the best.
By beating love decays.
By biting and scratching cats and dogs come together.
By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome.
By candle-light a goat looks like a lady.
By committing foolish acts, one learns wisdom.
By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof.
By crawling, a child learns to stand.
By day they're ready to divorce, by night they're ready for bed.
By day think of your own faults, by night think of the faults of others.
By dint of going wrong all will come right.
By doing nothing men learn to do evil.
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
By fair means or foul.
By falling we earn to go safely.
By falling we learn to go safely.
By getting angry, you show you are wrong.
By gnawing skin a dog learns to eat leather.
By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.
By going gains the mill, and not by standing still.
By good means or bad.
By good nature and kindness even fierce spirits become tractable.
By hook or by crook.
By hook or crook.
By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn.
By its fruits one knows the tree.
By joining the tail to the trunk one makes up the whole elephant.
By labor fire is got out of stone.
By labour fire is got out of a stone.
By lamplight every country wench seems handsome.
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
By much laughter you detect the fool.
By night all cats are black.
By night all cats are grey.
By others faults the wise correct their own.
By perseverance the Greeks reached Troy.
By pleasing, while we instruct.
By pride one causes virtue to decline.
By repeated blows even the oak is felled.
By running and defecating at the same time, you'll get crap on your heels.
By slitting the ears and cutting the tail, a dog is still a dog, not a horse, not an ass.
By slow degrees the bird builds his nest.
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 telling our woes we often assuage them.
By the air you can see who's in the wagon.
By the familiarity of the master the servant is spoilt.
By the first glass a lamb, the second a lion, and the third a pig.
By the hands of many a great work is made light.
By the living we bury the dead.
By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
By the street of 'By-and-By' one arrives at the house of 'Never.'.
By the thread we unwind the skein.
By the time Shooshan gets ready, the mass will be over.
By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed.
By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch.
By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch.
By their marks the bales are known.
By this sign you will conquer' ('s vision before the ).
By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.
By what servant is his master better loved than by his dog?.
By wisdom and courage.

By working in the smithy one becomes a smith.
By writing we learn to write.
By writing you learn to write.
Bygone troubles are good to tell.

These are Proverb Examples from around the world, some have been translated from their original language to english.


Full list:
A  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  B  2  3  4  C  2  D  2  3  E  2  3  4  F  2  3  G  2  H  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  I  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  J  K  L  2  M  2  3  N  2  3  4  O  2  3  4  P  2  Q  R  S  2  3  T  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  U  V  W  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  Y  2  Z