Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Business goes where it is invited and stays
where it is well treated.
Business is a two-way street.
Business is business, and love is love.
Business is business.
Business neglected is business lost.
Bustle is not industry.
Busy folks are always meddling (It is in the
nature of busy people to interfere in the
affairs of others)
But an unwatched kettle over boils.
But for all that the honest man has not got
his purse.
But may not truth in laughing guise be
dressed?
But now I was a rich man, three things have
left me bare; dice, wine, and women,
these three have made me poor.
But then was then, my lad, an’ noo is noo.
But’ is a fence over which few leap.
Butcher the donkey after it finished his job
on the mill.
Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon,
lead at night.
Butter spoils no meat, and moderation
injures no cause.
Butter with the fish.
Buttered bread always falls dry side up.
Butterflies come to pretty flowers.
Butterflies forget that they were once
caterpillars.
Buy at the cost of four and sell at the cost of
eight.
Buy friendship wi’ presents, and it will be
bought frae you.
Buy from desperate people, and sell to
newlyweds.
Buy from people who are desperate, and sell
to newlyweds.
Buy good quality and sell at the market
price.
Buy him at his own price and sell him at
yours and you’ll make no bargain.
Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the
dearest.
Buy on the cannons, sell on the trumpets.
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
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Buy or die.
Buy the bed of a great debtor.
Buy the truth but never sell it.
Buy what you have no need of and ere long
you shall sell your necessaries.
Buy when I bid you.
Buy when it is market time.
Buy your greyhound, don’t rear him.
Buy your neighbour’s ox, and woo your
neighbour’s daughter.
Buy, buy, the children will pay the debts.
Buyer beware.
Buyers want a hundred eyes, sellers only
one.
Buying a cat in a bag.
Buying and selling is but winning and
losing.
Buying is cheaper than asking.
Buying on credit is robbing next year’s crop.
Buying teaches you to sell and earning
teaches you to spend.
By a brave endurance of unavoidable evils,
we conquer them.
By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can
drag an elephant with a hair.
By all means make friends with the dog, but
do not lay aside the stick.
By all means trust in Allah, but tie your
camel first.
By always taking out and never putting in,
the bottom is soon reached.
By asking for the impossible we obtain the
best possible.
By asking the impossible you will get the
best.
By beating love decays.
By being grateful, a man makes himself
deserving of yet another kindness.
By being in front everywhere one may get a
telling-off.
By biting and scratching cats and dogs come
together.
By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot
be avoided is overcome.