Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Both the cross and the gallows are made of
wood.
Both the fast and the slow will meet each
other on the ferry boat.
Both the goat has enough to eat and the
cabbage remains.
Both the hunted and the hunter rely on God.
Both water and fire need to be treated with
respect.
Both your friend and your enemy think that
you will never die.
Bought friends are not friends indeed.
Bought things do not fill the granary.
Bought wisdom is best.
Bought wit is best.
Bound is he that gifts taketh.
Bourd neither with me, nor with my
Honour.
Bourd not with Bawty, fear lest he bite ye.
Boys and sugar-cane grow up as enemies.
Boys avoid the bees that stung ‘em.
Boys seldom make passes at girls wearing
glasses.
Boys will be boys (Boys must be forgiven for
their bad or boisterous behavior)
Boys will be boys.
Brackish water is sweet in a drought.
Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is better.
Bragging saves advertising.
Brain is better than brawn.
Brains are not to be found in the beard.
Branches may be trained; not the trunk.
Branches straighten.
Brandy is as lead in the morning, silver at
noon, and gold at night.
Brave men lived before Agamemnon
(People whose brave or noble exploits
are not recorded in history or literature
tend to be forgotten over the course of
time)
Brave men lived before Agamemnon.
Bravery without foresight is like a blind
horse.
Bravery without intelligence is not bravery.
Brawl with a pig and you go away with his
stink.
Braying of an ass or barking of a dog, is not
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heard in Heaven.
Bread always falls buttered side down (In
any situation, the least desirable of two
or more possible outcomes is the one
that will occur)
Bread and bird: we don’t discuss house
business.
Bread and cheese is gude to eat when folk
can get nae ither meat.
Bread and cheese, neither beneficial nor bad.
Bread and salt never quarrel.
Bread and wine start a banquet.
Bread and wine strengthen the back.
Bread borrowed should be returned.
Bread in one hand, a stone in the other.
Bread is better than the song of birds.
Bread is the staff of life, but beer’s life itself.
Bread is the staff of life.
Bread without sauce and a home without a
wife are meaningless.
Breads house skiald never.
Break a pot, pay for a pot.
Break one link and the whole chain falls
apart.
Break the leg of a bad habit.
Break the legs of an evil custom.
Break the soil when it’s moist, plow with the
warm weather, and do the seeding on
time.
Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince,
dine like a pauper.
Breaking a taboo is uprooting the
germinating plants
Breaking her hip is the old woman’s fault.
Breaking news of the dead in the right way
is very important.
Breasts adorn a woman and make a man
look ugly.
Breasts are never too heavy for the chest.
Breed up a crow and he will tear out your
eyes.
Breed up a serpent and he will strike when
you are in deep slumber.
Breeding rather than birth.