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Proverbs starting with B

1: Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune .
implies that:

2: Back talk
states:

3: Backseat driver,
said for :

4: Bad aid solution
said for :

5: Bad apple
said for :

6: Bad beginnings lead to bad results.
said to mean that:

7: Bad faith
said when:

8: Bad money drives out good.
states that:

9: Bad news has wings.
it means that:

10: Bad things come in threes
a superstition :

11: Bad to the bone
said for :

12: Bail someone out
means:

13: Bare minimum
meaning:

14: Barefaced lie
meaning:

15: Bark is worse than bite
meaning that:

16: Barking dogs seldom bite.
means that:

17: Barking up the wrong tree.
meaning:

18: bat an eye
meaning:

19: Be carefull what you pray for, you might get it.
warning that:

20: Be just before you are generous.
used to say that:

21: Be on the safe side
meaning that you must:

22: Be slow to promise and quick to perform.
advices:

23: Be swift to hear and slow to speak.
said to mean that:

24: Be what you would seem to be.
it means that:

25: Bear and forbear.
means that:

26: Beat the band
said for :

27: Beauty draws with a single hair.
denotes that:

28: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
means that:

29: Beauty is only skin deep.
means that:

30: Beauty lies in lover’s eyes.
means that:

31: Because a man is born in a stable that does not make him a horse.
suggests that:

32: Before one can say Jack Robinson.
said when:

33: Before you make a friend eat a bushel of salt with him.
it means that:

34: Beggars can’t be choosers.
it means that:

35: Beggars cannot be choosers.
advices that:

36: Believe nothing of what you hear, and only half of what you see.
advices that:

37: Best defense is offense.
suggests that:

38: Best things in life are free.
suggests that:

39: Better a dinner of herbs than a stalled ox where hate is.
means that:

40: Better a lean peace than a fat victory.
meaning that:

41: Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us.
signify that :

42: Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow.
suggests that:

43: Better an open enemy than a false friend.
meaning:

44: Better are small fish than an empty dish.
suggests that:

45: Better be alone than in bad company.
states that:

46: Better be born lucky than rich.
expresses that:

47: Better be envied than pitied.
it means that :

48: Better be safe than sorry.
suggests that:

49: Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion.
suggests that:

50: Better brain than brawn.
suggests that:

51: Better deny at once than promise long.
advices that:

52: Better die standing than live kneeling.
It emphasizes :

53: Better give a shilling than lend a half-crown.
signifies that:

54: Better go to bed supperless than rise in debt.
underscores :

55: Better late than never.
suggests that:

56: Better lose a jest than a friend.
expresses that:

57: Better one house spoiled than two
is said for:

58: Better one-eyed than stone-blind.
states that:

59: Better out than in.
advices that:

60: Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.
signifies that:

61: Better the foot slip than the tongue.
expresses that:

62: Better to be off with the old love before you are on with the new
an old saying suggesting that:

63: Better to be poor and healthy rather than rich and sick.
states that:

64: Better to do well than to say well
idiom meaning that:

65: Better to light a candle than to curse the darkeness.
suggests that:

66: Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep.
means that:

67: Better to marry than to burn
advices that is:

68: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
suggests that:

69: Better to wear out than to rust out.
claims that :

70: Better unborn than untaught.
emphasizes:

71: Better untaught than ill-taught.
suggests that:

72: Better wed over the mixen than over the moor.
it is:

73: Between the devil and the deep sea.
used when:

74: Between the upper and nether millstone.
describes:

75: Between two evils it is not worth choosing.
suggests that:

76: Between two stools one falls to the ground.
refers to:

77: Beware of a silent dog and still water.
advices that:

78: Big fish eat little fish.
means that:

79: Big fleas have little fleas upon their back to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
means that:

80: Bind the sack before it be full.
advices to:

81: Birds of a feather flock together.
means that:

82: Blessed is he who expects nothting, for he shall never be disappointed.
is said for:

83: Blessings brighten as they take their flight.
expresses that:

84: Blind men can judge no colours.
means that:

85: Blood is thicker than water.
declares that:

86: Blood will have bloods.
suggests that:

87: Blood will tell.
conveys the belief:

88: Borrowed garments never fit well.
expresses that:

89: Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better.
indicates that:

90: Brave men leaved and before Agamemnon.
but:

91: Bread always falls buttered side down.
used to mean that:

92: Brevity is the soul of wit.
It suggests that:

93: Burn not your house to fright the mouse away
advices:

94: Burn the candle at both ends
said for :

95: Business before pleasure.
expression empphasizing :

96: By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
suggests that:

97: By hook or by crook.
means: