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

Buffoonery is often want of wit. Bruyère.

Bullies are generally cowards. Pr.

Buon cavallo non ha bisogno di sproni—Don't spur a willing horse. It. Pr.

Burlaos con el loco en casa, burlará con vos en la plaza—Play with the fool in the house and he will play with you in the street. Sp. Pr.

Burnt bairns dread the fire. Sc. Pr. 60

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done. Bulwer Lytton.

Busy readers are seldom good readers. Wieland.

But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, / When once destroyed, can never be supplied. Goldsmith.

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue / Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear / The better reason, to perplex and dash / Maturest counsels. Milton.

But by bad courses may be understood, / That their events can never fall out good. Rich. II., ii. 1.