1. a bad beginning makes a bad ending. 惡其始者必惡其終。

2. a bad bush is better than the open field. 有勝于無。

3. a bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit. 吃虧的和解也比勝訴強。

4. a bad conscience is a snake in one's heart. 做賊心虛。

5. a bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept. 壞習慣像鮮餡餅，分食要比保存好。

6. a bad padlock invites a picklock. 開門揖盜。

7. a bad penny always turns up.()

8. a bad thing never dies. 壞事傳千年。

9. a bad workman quarrels with his tools. 拙匠常怨工具差(人笨怨刀鈍)。

10. a bargain is a bargain. 達成的協(xié)議不可撕毀。

11. a beggar's purse is bottomless. 乞丐的錢袋是無底洞。

12. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. 雙鳥在林不如一鳥在手。

13. a bird is known by its note, and a man by his talk. 聞其歌知其鳥，聽其言知其人。

14. a bird may be known by its song. 什么鳥唱什么歌。

15. a bit in the morning is better than nothing all day. 略有勝于全無。

16. a blind man who leans against a wall imagines that it's the boundary of the world. 坐井觀天。

17. a blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. 秋波送盲，白費癡情。

18. a book is the same today as it always was and it will never change. 一本好書今天如此，將來也如此，永不改變。

19. a book that remains shut is but a block. 有書閉卷不閱讀，無異是一塊木頭。

20. a borrowed cloak does not keep one warm. 借來的斗篷不暖身。( )

21. absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. 相聚愛益切，離別情更深。

22. a burden of one's choice is not felt. 自己選的擔子不嫌重。