Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
The back of one door is the face of another.
The bacon of paradise for the married man
that does not repent.
The bad barber leaves neither hair nor skin.
The bad calligrapher is choosy about his
brushes.
The bad collector makes the bad payer.
The bad fortune of Zoza: in winter it sees
not the sun and in summer it sees not the
moon.
The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.
The bad man always suspects knavery.
The bad man thinks that everybody looks
like him.
The bad neighbour gives a needle without
thread.
The bad plowman quarrels with his ox.
The bad refrain from sin from fear of
punishment.
The Bad tax-collector will sell one of your
oxen, the good one - both.
The bad workman blames his tools.
The badger is not aware of its own blaze.
The bagpipe never utters a work till its belly
is full.
The bailiff's cow and another's cow are two
different cows.
The bait hides the hook.
The bait tastes first the fish.
The baker's child goes hungry.
The balance in doing its office knows neither
gold nor lead.
The bald woman boasts of her sister's hair.
The baldness of a head begins at the
temples.
The ball always looks for the best player.
The bandits in the mountain are easily
subjected, but it is difficult to subject the
bandits in my heart.
The bands in Messina play from morning
until night.
The bands of Palermo and the privileges of
Messina.
The banes o' a great estate are worth the
picking.
The banes of a great estate is worth the
piking.
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The bankrupt merchant is half rich.
The barber learns his trade on the orphan's
chin.
The barber learns to shave on the orphan's
face.
The barking dog gives you no power -- it
gives you fear.
The barking of a dog does not disturb the
man on a camel.
The barking of dogs does not hurt the
clouds.
The barking of dogs does not reach heaven.
The barking of dogs does not reduce the
beggar's daily allotment.
The barking of the dogs will not disturb the
clouds.
The barrel can only yield the wine that's in
it.
The base of a lighthouse is dark.
The bath has sworn not to whiten the
blackamoor.
The battle is directionless for too much
guidance.
The beadle of the parish is always of the
vicar's opinion.
The beadle's cow may graze in the
churchyard.
The bean paste that smells like bean paste is
not the best quality.
The bear dances but the tamer collects the
money.
The bear knows seven songs and they are all
about honey.
The bear wants a tail and cannot be a lion.
The bear, he never can prevail to lion it for
want of tail.
The beard does not make the philosopher.
The beareved begins the wailing latter
others join.
The bearskin does not bite.
The beast dead, the venom is dead.
The beast once dead, the venom is dead.
The beast that goes well is never without
some one to try his paces.