A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

bag see EMPTY sacks will never stand upright; there’s many a GOOD cock come out of a tattered bag.
bairn see FOOLS and bairns should never see half-done work; the SHOEMAKER’S son always goes barefoot.
As you BAKE, so shall you brew
As you begin, so shall you proceed. Complementary to as you BREW, so shall you bake.

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  с 1577 Misogonus III. i. As thou bakst, so shat brewe. 1775 D. GARRICK May-Day ii. To keep.. My bones whole and tight, To speak, nor look, would I dare; As they bake they shall brew. 1909 W. DE MORGAN It never can happen Again I. V. Each one [i.e. young person].. was.. the centre of an incubation of memories that were to last a lifetime. ‘As they bake, so they will brew,’ philosophized Mr. Challis to himself. ■ action and consequence
  

bake see also as you BREW, so shall you bake.
bandit see the more LAWS, the more thieves and bandits.
bare see there goes more to MARRIAGE than four bare legs in a bed.
barefoot see the SHOEMAKER’S son always goes barefoot.
bargain see it takes TWO to make a bargain.
bark see DOGS bark, but the caravan goes on; why KEEP a dog and bark yourself?
A BARKING dog never bites
Cf. Q. CURTIUS De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni VII. iv. 13 canem timidum vehementius latrere quam mordere, a timid cur barks more furiously than he bites [said there to be a Bactrian saying]; 13th-cent. Fr. chascuns chiens qui abaie ne mort pas, the dog that barks does not bite.

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  с 1550 Thersytes E1 Great barking dogges, do not most byte And oft it is sene that the best men in the hoost Be not suche, that vse to bragge moste. 1595 Locrine (1908) IV. i. Soft words good sir... A barking dog doth sildome strangers bite. 1629 Book of Merry Riddles 22 A barking dog seldome bites. 1837 F. CHAMIER Arethusa III. X. Our dogs which bark, Abdallah, seldom bite. 1980 Daily Telegraph 1 May 18 A canvassing candidate came to a house where there was an Alsatian who barked ferociously. His agent said: ‘Just go in. Don’t you know the proverb “A barking dog never bites”?’ ‘Yes,’ said the candidate, ‘I know the proverb, you know the proverb, but does the dog know the proverb?’ “words and deeds