=Bring down my grey hairs with sorrow to the grave.= _Bible._
=Bring forth men-children only! / For thy undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males.= _Macb._, i. 7.
=Broad thongs may be cut from other people's= 45 =leather.= _It. Pr._
=Broken friendships may be sowthered (soldered), but never sound.= _Sc. Pr._
=Brouille sera à la maison si la quenouille est maîtresse=--There will be disagreement in the house if the distaff holds the reins. _Fr. Pr._
=Brûler la chandelle par les deux bouts=--To burn the candle at both ends. _Fr._
=Brute force holds communities together as an iron nail, if a little rusted with age, binds pieces of wood; but intelligence binds like a screw, which must be gently turned, not driven.= _Draper._
=Brutum fulmen=--A harmless thunderbolt. _L._ 50
=Brutus, thou sleep'st; awake, and see thyself.= _Jul. Cæs._, ii. 1.
=Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar.= _Jul. Cæs._, i. 2.
=Bûche tortue fait bon feu=--A crooked log makes a good fire. _Fr. Pr._
=Buen siglo haya quien dijó bolta=--Blessings on him that said, Right about face! _Sp. Pr._
=Buey viejo sulco derecho=--An old ox makes a 55 straight furrow. _Sp. Pr._
=Buffoonery is often want of wit.= _Bruyère._
=Buon cavallo non ha bisogno di sproni=--Don't spur a willing horse. _It. Pr._
=Burlaos con el loco en casa, burlará con vos en la plaza=--Play with the fool in the house and he will play with you in the street. _Sp. Pr._
=Burnt bairns dread the fire.= _Sc. Pr._ 60
=Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.= _Bulwer Lytton._
=Busy readers are seldom good readers.= _Wieland._
=But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, / When once destroyed, can never be supplied.= _Goldsmith._
=But all was false and hollow; though his tongue / Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear / The better reason, to perplex and dash / Maturest counsels.= _Milton._
=But by bad courses may be understood, / That their events can never fall out good.= _Rich. II._, ii. 1.
=But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve, / He taught, but first he folwed it himselve.= _Chaucer._
=But earthlier happy is the rose distilled, / Than= 5 =that which, withering on the virgin thorn, / Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.= _Mid. N's. Dream_, i. 1.