The bow that is always bent slackens or breaks, [202]

The bowels support the heart, and not the heart the bowels, [260]

The branch is seldom better than the stem, [397]

The branch must be bent early that is to make a good crook, [363]

The braying of an ass does not reach heaven, [124]

The bread eaten, the company departed, [219], [291]

The bucket goes so often to the well that it leaves its handle there, [128]

The buckets take to fighting with the well, and get their heads broken, [109]

The bud becomes a rose, and the rose a hip, [31]

The busy fly is in every man’s dish, [219]