1386 Dutch Proverbs / Page 12
221. Better return half way than lose yourself.
222. Better ride a good horse for a year, than an ass all your life.
223. Better squinting than blind.
224. Better stretch your hand than your neck.
225. Better to be squinting than blind.
226. Better to lose the anchor than the whole ship.
227. Better twice remembered than once forgotten.
228. Better when birds sing than where irons ring.
229. Between two stools the breech comes to the ground.
230. Between two stools you come to the ground.
231. Beware of a white Spaniard and a black Englishman.
232. Beware of an oak, it draws the stroke; avoid an ash, it counts the flash; creep under the thorn, it can save you from harm.
233. Beware of the man of two faces.
234. Beware of the person with two faces.
235. Biding makes thriving.
236. Big fish devour the little ones.
237. Big fish eat little fish.
238. Big fish spring out of the kettle.
239. Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
240. Birds of a feather flock together.