=Besser Rat kommt über Nacht=--Better counsel comes over-night. _Lessing._
=Besser was als gar nichts=--Better something than nothing at all. _Ger. Pr._
=Besser zweimal fragen dann einmal irre gehn=--Better ask twice than go wrong once. _Ger. Pr._
=Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire; /= 35 =Threaten the threatner, and outface the brow / Of bragging horror; so shall inferior eyes, / That borrow their behaviours from the great, / Grow great by your example, and put on / The dauntless spirit of resolution.= _King John_, v. 1.
=Best men are moulded out of faults.= _Meas. for Meas._, v. 1.
=Be strong, and quit yourselves like men.= _Bible._
=Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.= _Sir Thomas Browne._
=Be sure you can obey good laws before you= 40 =seek to alter bad ones.= _Ruskin._
=Be sure your sin will find you out.= _Bible._
=Bête noir=--An eyesore; a bugbear (_lit._ a black beast). _Fr._
=Beter eens in den hemel dan tienmaal aan de deur=--Better once in heaven than ten times at the door. _Dut. Pr._
=Be thankful for your ennui; it is your last= 45 =mark of manhood.= _Carlyle._
=Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.= _Ham._, iii. 1.
=Be thou assured, if words be made of breath, / And breath of life, I have no life to breathe / What thou hast said to me.= _Ham._, iii. 4.
=Be thou faithful unto death.= _St. John._
=Be to her virtues very kind; / Be to her faults= 50 =a little blind.= _Prior._
=Betrogene Betrüger=--The deceiver deceived. _Lessing._
=Betrügen und betrogen werden, / Nichts ist gewöhnlicher auf Erden=--Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. _Seume._
=Betrug war Alles, Lug, und Schein=--All was deception, a lie, and illusion. _Goethe._
=Bettelsack ist bodenlos=--The beggar's bag has no bottom. _Ger. Pr._
=Better a blush in the face than a blot in the= 55 =heart.= _Cervantes._
=Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.= _Ruskin._
=Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.= _Chinese Pr._
=Better a fortune in a wife than with a wife.= _Pr._
=Better a fremit freend than a freend fremit=, _i.e._, a stranger for a friend than a friend turned stranger. _Sc. Pr._