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. 有勝於無。
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. 什麼鳥唱什麼歌。
15. a bit in the morning is better than nothing all day. 略有勝於全無。
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. 借來的鬥篷不暖身。
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。