Good proverbs

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If you say you will love a person all your life, is saying a candle will continue to burn all your life

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You can lead a horse to water,but you can't make it drink.

People,like horses, will only do what they have a mind to do.
You can't get blood out of a stone.

You cannot extract what isn't there to begin with.
You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Old dogs learn less well than the young.
Baby blues.

feeling of depression or anxiety,experienced by some mothers following childbirth.
Baby boomer.

A person born during the temporary peak in the birth-rate that occured several countries following wwii,notably the usa and the uk.
Baby father.

The father of an infant who is not married to or in an exclusive relation ship with the mother.
Back - seat driver.

Some one who criticizes from the sidelines.
Back the field.

Place a bet on all the horses in a race, except one.
Back to basics.

A return to previously held values of decency.
Back to square one.

Back to the beginning, to start again.
Back to the drawing board.

Start again on a new design-after a failure of an earlier attempt.
Back room boy.

One who works in anonymity in an organization while others take on more public roles.
Bring home the bacon.

To earn money, especially money for ones family,to be successful,especially financially successful.
In someone's bad books.

To be in disgrace or out of favour.
A bad egg.

Some one or something that disappoints expectations.
Bad hair day.

A day on which one's hair seems unmanageable.Also extended to mean a day when everything seems wrong.
The balance of power.

The distribution of power between nations in such a way that no single state has dominance over the others.
The balance of trade.

The difference between the value of the imports and exports that a nation makes.
Bale out/Bail out

Various meanings,including making an emergency parachute escape from an aeroplane and ladling water from a boat.
Ball and chain.

A 20 th century slang term,meaning wife.

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