A boor remains a boor, though he sleep on silken bolsters, [365]

A borrowed horse and your own spurs make short miles, [383]

A boy’s love is water in a sieve, [199]

A brain is worth little without a tongue, [61]

A braying ass eats little hay, [72]

A brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife, [312]

Abroad one has a hundred eyes, at home not one, [141]

A buffeting threatened is never well given, [205]

A burnt child dreads the fire, [149], [313]

A burnt child dreads the fire, and a bitten child dreads a dog, [351]