828 Traditional Proverbs / Page 8
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Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite.142.
Better to go to bed hungry than to wake up in debt.143.
Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon.144.
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.145.
Beware of men who flourish hereditary honors.146.
Birds of a feather flock together.147.
Blood is thicker than water.148.
Books and friends should be few but good.149.
Borrowed garments never fit well.150.
Bread is the staff of life.151.
Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound.152.
By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome.153.
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.154.
By others faults the wise correct their own.155.
Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.156.
Caution is the parent of safety.157.
Charity begins at home.158.
Children and drunks always speak the truth.159.
Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.160.
Civility costs nothing.