Good proverbs

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Let's make a thread for proverbs and share good proverbs in this thread

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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Beggars cant be choosers.

If you request something to be given you should not question what you are given.
Beggar belief

To defy or go beyond what is believable.
Behind every great man there's a great woman

This has been adopted as a feminist slogan
Behind the eight ball

A difficult position from which it is unlikely one can escape.
Bell,book and candle.

The phrase that denoted excommunication from the Catholic church.
Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
I always knew that looking back on my tears would someday make me laugh,
but I never knew that looking back on my laughter I miss you.
The belle of the ball

The most attractive woman at a social gathering.
Belt and braces.

Careful - not taking any chances.
Belt up.

Be quiet. Also,since the introduction of car seat belts-an injuction to fasten one's belt.
The best laid schemes of mice and men.

The most carefully prepared plans may go wrong.
Between a rock and a hard place.

In difficulty,faced with a choice between two unsatisfactory options.
Between the devil and the deep blue sea.

In difficulty,faced with two dangerous alternatives.
Between two stools.

Fail,due to being unable to choose between two alternatives.
Between you,me and the bed-post.

A secret,something that only the speaker and the listener should know.
Beware of Greeks bearing gifts

Don't trust your enemies.
Beyond belief.

Outside the range of what is normally considered believable.
Better late than never

To arrive or do something later than expected isn't good, but it is better than not at all.

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