Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Be thou assured, if words be made of breath, / And breath of life, I have no life to breathe / What thou hast said to me. Ham., iii. 4.

Be thou faithful unto death. St. John.

Bêtise—Folly; piece of folly. Fr.

Be to her virtues very kind; / Be to her faults 50 a little blind. Prior.

Betrogene Betrüger—The deceiver deceived. Lessing.

Betrügen und betrogen werden, / Nichts ist gewöhnlicher auf Erden—Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. Seume.

Betrug war Alles, Lug, und Schein—All was deception, a lie, and illusion. Goethe.

Bettelsack ist bodenlos—The beggar's bag has no bottom. Ger. Pr.

Better a blush in the face than a blot in the 55 heart. Cervantes.

Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie. Ruskin.