principles of children when young.

Between you and the lang day be'it.

Be what ye seem and seem what ye are.

Bid a man to a roast and stick him wi' the spit.

Pretend to show kindness to a man while your intention is to injure
him.

Bide weel, betide weel.

Wait well or patiently and you will fare well; or at least as well
as those who are hasty.

Biggin and bairns marrying are arrant wasters.

"Building is a sweet impoverishing."--_Spanish._

Bind the sack ere it be fou.

Do not tax any person or thing to the utmost.

Birds o' a feather flock thegither.

Birk will burn be it burn drawn; sauch will sab if it were simmer sawn.

Literally, wood will burn even if drawn through water, and the
willow will droop if sown out of season. Figuratively, natural will
and inclination will predominate and exhibit themselves, although
submitted to the most antagonistic influences.

Birth's gude but breeding's better.

Bitter jests poison friendship.

Black's my apron, and I'm aye washing 't.

When a man has got a bad character, although he may endeavour to
redeem it, he will find great difficulty in doing so.

Black will tak nae ither hue.

Blaw the wind ne'er sae fast, it will lown at the last.

Blind horse rides hardy to the fecht.

"Who so bold as blind Bayard?"--_French._

Blind men shouldna judge o' colours.

Blue and better blue.

"That is, there may be difference between things of the same kind
and persons of the same station."--_Kelly._

Blue's beauty, red's a taiken, green's grief, and yellow's forsaken.

Examples of the "Poetry of colour."

Blue is love true.

Bluid's thicker than water.

"'Weel, weel,' said Mr Jarvie, 'bluid's thicker than water; and it
liesna in kith, kin, and ally, to see motes in ilk other's een if
other een see them no.'"--_Rob Roy._

Bode a robe and wear it, bode a pock and bear it.

According as our aspirations are high or low, so do we succeed or
fail. "As you make your bed, so you must lie on it."

Bode for a silk gown and ye'll get a sleeve o't.

That is, if we "bode" or earnestly wish for an article or result, we
will get at least something approaching to it. An Aberdeenshire
parallel to this is, "They never bodet a house o' gowd, but aye got
a caber o't."

Bode gude and get it.

Boden gear stinks.

The theory of the fox and grapes.

Bonnet as