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Eagle.
1.An old eagle is better than a young sparrow.Ger.
2.An old eagle is better than a young crow.Ger.
3.Eagles catch na flies.
4.Eagles do not breed doves.Ger., Dutch.
5.Eagles fly alone, but sheep flock together.
6.The crow does not devour fowls: they are the prey of the eagle.Chinese.
7.The eagle does not catch (or hunt) flies.Fr., Ger.
8.The eagle does not war against frogs.Ital.
9.The eagle loves the mountain.Caucasian.
10.The eagle soars alone.
11.The old age of an eagle. (Applied to old topers, the eagle being supposed to live by suction in its old age.)Latin.
12.When the eagle is dead, the crows pick out his eyes.Ger.
Ear.
1.To a quick ear a half a word.Ger.
Early Rising.
1.Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, and wealthy, and wise.
2.For all one's early rising it dawns none the sooner.Sp.
3.Get a name to rise early and you may lie all day.
4.Go to bed late, rise early, you will see your own harm and that of others.Por.
5.Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.
6.He that will thrive must rise at five, He that hath thriven may lie till seven.
7.He who does not rise with the sun does not enjoy the day.Don Quixote.
8.He who does not rise early never does a good day's work.
9.He who rises early will gather wisdom.Dan.
10.If no profits he spies, Where's the man will early rise.Chinese.
11.It dawns none the sooner for all the world's early rising.Por.
12.It is better for him whom God helps than for him who rises early.Don Quixote.
13.Let not the sun look down and say inglorious here he lies.Franklin.
14.Out before day, in before night.Dutch.
15.Rise early and watch, labor and catch.Sp., Por.
16.The early riser is healthy, cheerful and industrious.Fr.
17.The morning hour has gold in its mouth.Ger., Dutch, Dan.
18.Who makes everything right must rise early.
Earnestness and Sport.
1.Earnestness and sport are often neighbors.Ger.
2.Earnestness and sport go well together.Dan.
Earnestness.
1.Earnestness is the soul of work.Ger.
Earth.
1.Earth is the best shelter.
2.The earth is a host who murders his guests.Haffiz.
3.The earth is always frozen to lazy swine.Dan.
4.The earth produces all things and receives all again.
5.What much is worth comes from the earth.Sp.
Earthen.
1.No wolf's bane is drunk out of earthen vessels; i.e., a peasant is in no danger of being poisoned.Juvenal.
2.The earthen pan gains nothing by contact with the copper pot.Dan.
3.The earthen pot must keep clear of the brass kettle.
Ease.
1.If we have not the world's wealth, we have the world's ease.Scotch.
2.One may support any thing better than too much ease and prosperity.Ital.
Easy.
1.It is easy to add to things that have once been invented.
2.It is easy to be generous of another man's money.
3.It is easy to be generous out of another man's purse.Dutch, Dan.
4.It is easy to bowl down hill.
5.It is easy to cut thongs from other men's leather.Dutch.
6.It is easy to help him who is willing to be helped.Ger.
7.It is easy to manage when fortune favors.Dan.
8.It is easy to poke another man's fire.Dan.
9.It is easy to rob an orchard when none keeps it.
10.It is easy to stride a tree when it is down.Dan.
11.It is easy to swim when another holds up your head.Dan.
12.It is easy to take a man's part, but the matter is to maintain it.Gaelic.
13.Nothing is easy to the unwilling.
Easier.
1.It is easier than to blow dust off any thing.Chinese.
2.It is easier to bear what's amiss than go about to reform it.
3.It is easier to blame than to do better.Ger.
4.It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.Franklin.
5.It is easier to build two hearths than always to keep a fire on one.Ger.
6.It is easier to descend than ascend.
7.It is easier to get away from the bank than the bottom.Fr.
8.It is easier to pull down than build.
9.It is easier to stem the brook than the river.Dan.
10.It is easier to strike than defend well.
11.'Tis easier to hurt than to heal.Ger.
East.
1.Too far east is west.
2.They who possess the highway to the East have the treasures of the world.
Eat.
1.A full man is no eater.Por.
2.A man must eat though every tree were a gallows.Dutch.
3.A man that has had his fill is no eater.Sp.
4.A good eater must be a good man.Bea.
5.A morsel eaten gains no friends.
6.As a man eats so he works.Ger.
7.Eat a bit before you drink.
8.Eat and drink measurely and defy the mediciners.
9.Eat and welcome, fast and heartily welcome.
10.Eat after your own fashion, clothe yourself as others do.
11.Eat at pleasure, drink by measure.
12.Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
13.Eat bread that's light and cheese by weight.Dutch.
14.Eat little at dinner, less at supper; Sleep aloft and you will sleep oft.Sp.
15.Eat peas with the king and cherries with the beggar.
16.Eat the fruit and don't inquire about the tree.Turk.
17.Eat the present and break the dish (so as not to be reminded of the obligation).Arabian.
18.Eat-well is Drink-well's brother.
19.Eat with him and beware of him.Por.
20.Eating and drinking make the stomach full but the purse empty.Ger.
21.Eating and drinking want but a beginning.
22.Eating and drinking take away one's hunger.
23.Eating little and speaking little can never do a man harm.
24.Eating sets the head to rights.
25.He has two stomachs to eat and one to work.
26.He that banquets every day never makes a good meal.
27.He that eats most porridge shall have most meat.
28.He that eats the king's goose shall be choked by the feathers.
29.He that eats well and drinks well should do his duty well.
30.He that eats while he lasts will be war while he die.
31.He who eats but one dish never wants a physician.
32.He who eats pears with his master should not choose the best.Ital.
33.He who eats the meat let him pick the bone.Sp.
34.If I were to fast for my life I would eat a good breakfast in the morning.
35.If you eat it up at supper, you cannot have it at breakfast.Sp.
36.If you hate a man eat his bread, if you love him do the same.
37.It is a great pleasure to eat and have nothing to pay.
38.It is dangerous to eat cherries with the great; they throw the stones at your head.Dan.
39.It is very savory to eat scot free.Sp.
40.Nice eaters seldom meet with a good dinner.
41.Often and little eating makes a man fat.
42.One does not eat acorns when he has peaches.Ger.
43.One is never well at table unless there be four in company.Arabian Nights.
44.One may be surfeited by eating tarts.Fr.
45.People must eat if every tree were a gallows.Dutch., Dan.
46.She that is ashamed to eat at table eats in private.
47.Some eat the stew, then ask for the pan.
48.To eat and to scratch one has but to begin.Sp.
49.To good eating belongs good drinking.Ger.
50.Who eats and leaves has another good meal.
51.Who eats his dinner alone must saddle his horse alone.Sp., Por.
Economy.
1.A farthing saved is twice earned.Ital.
2.A good saver is a good server.
3.A jade eats as much as a good horse.
4.A man's voluntary expense should not exceed his income.Dr. Johnson.
5.Cut your coat according to your cloth.Dutch.
6.Economy is a great revenue.Cicero.
7.Economy is too late at the bottom of the purse.Seneca.
8.Every one is bound to live within his means.Ovid.
9.He that eats and saves sets the table twice.
10.He who eats and puts by, has sufficient for two meals.Sp.
11.If you make not much of three pence, you'll ne'er be worth a groat.
Edge.
1.A good edge is good for nothing if it have nothing to cut.
2.Too keen an edge does not cut, too fine a point does not pierce.Fr.
3.It's ill jesting with edge tools.Dutch.
Education.
1.A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well educated family.Thomas Scott.
2.Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.
3.Education is the poor man's haven.Latin.
4.Education polishes good natures and corrects the bad ones.
5.Nothing so much worth as a mind well instructed.Bible.
6.The tutors of youth have an ascendency over the stars of their nativity.Arabian.
7.'Tis education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.Pope.
8.What Master Jackey does not learn, Mr. John never knows.Ger.
9.What tutor shall we find for a child sixty years old?
10.You may pay more for your schooling than your learning is worth.
Eel.
1.A gray eel is better than a variegated serpent.Ger.
2.All that breed in the mud are not eels.
3.An eel escapes from a good fisherman.
4.An eel held by the tail is not yet caught.
5.As nimble as an eel in a sand bag.
6.As slippery as an eel.
7.Cover up the pot, there's an eel in it.Dutch.
8.He is as much out of his element as an eel in a sand bag.
9.Holding an eel too fast is the way to let it escape.
10.Mud chokes no eels.
11.The eel that will eat lettuce must come to land.Ger.
12.There is an eel under the rock: i.e., if you wish to find you must search.Fr.
13.There is as much hold of his words as of a wet eel by the tail.
14.To begin skinning the eel at the tail.Fr.
15.To squeeze an eel too hard is the way to lose it.Fr.
16.You cannot hide an eel in a sack.
Egg.
1.A rotten egg cannot be spoiled.
2.A white egg often comes from a black hen.Ger.
3.A wild goose never laid a tame egg.Irish.
4.All your eggs have two yolks apiece I warrant you.
5.“An egg's an egg” said the boor, and took the goose egg.Ger., Dutch.
6.An egg is the only clean thing in a slovenly house-wife's kitchen.
7.An unlaid egg is an uncertain thing.Ger.
8.Better a half an egg than an empty shell.
9.Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
10.Eggs and oaths are easily broken.Dan.
11.Eggs are close things, but the chicks come out at last.Chinese.
12.Eggs are put to hatch on chance.Fr.
13.Eggs of an hour, fish of ten; bread of a day, wine of a year; a woman of fifteen and a man of thirty.
14.He has lost the nest egg.Dutch.
15.He lays his eggs beside his nest.Dutch.
16.He that will have eggs must have cackling.Dutch.
17.He who treads on eggs must tread lightly.Ger.
18.It is hard to shave an egg.
19.Neither good egg nor bird.
20.One rotten egg spoils the whole pudding.Ger.
21.One should not put too many eggs under one hen.Ger.
22.One should not sell the egg until it is laid.Ger.
23.Out of a white egg often comes a black chick.
24.Presented eggs are always fresh.Ger.
25.Send not for a hatchet with which to break open an egg.
26.Shave the egg and take its hair.M. Greek.
27.Sometimes an egg is given for an ox.Ital.
28.The egg teaches the hen and the tile the potter.Ger.
29.The egg will be more knowing than the hen.Ger.
30.There goes reasoning to the roasting of eggs.
31.To cackle and lay no egg.Sp., Por.
32.Unlaid eggs are uncertain chickens.Ger.
33.Upon an egg the hen lays an egg.Fr.
34.You will find it out when you want to fry the eggs.Sp.
Egotist.
1.An egotist is especially hated by all other egotists.
2.Egotism is an alphabet of one letter.London Truth.
Egypt.
1.He that hath not seen Egypt has not seen the greatest sight in the world.Arabian Nights.
Elephant.
1.An elephant does not catch mice.Latin.
2.He hath an elephant on his hands. (Like the subject to whom an Eastern prince made a present of an elephant and forbade his selling it or disposing of it in any way.)
3.The elephant does not feel a flea bite.Ital.
Eloquence.
1.As the grace of man is in the mind, so the beauty of the mind is eloquence.Cicero.
2.Eloquence avails nothing against the voice of gold.Latin.
3.He who has heard the world acquires eloquence.M. Greek.
4.It is easy to defend the innocent but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty.Syrus.
5.True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper and nothing more.Rochefoucauld.
6.Unprofitable eloquence is like the cypress: great and tall but bears no fruit.
Embassador.
1.An embassador beareth no blame.Ital.
2.An embassador is a good man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country.Wotton.
Empire.
1.The empire is peace.Napoleon III.
2.To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the law and the people the magistrates.Solon.
Empty.
1.Empty vessels make the most sound.Fr., Ger., Dutch, Dan.
2.Empty wagons make most noise.Dan.
3.The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.Shaks.
Emulation.
1.Emulation is lively and generous, envy base and malicious.
2.Emulation is the whetstone of genius.Latin.
3.Emulation layeth up a grudge.
End.
1.All's well that ends well.Shaks.
2.At the end the thing is praised.Hungarian.
3.In all undertakings it is necessary to consider the end.La Fontaine.
4.In the end it will be known who ate the bacon.Fr.
5.In the end things will mend.
6.Let the end try the man.Shaks.
7.Look at the end.
8.The end crowns the work.Fr., Ital., Por., Dutch.
9.The end makes all equal.
10.The end must justify the means.Prior.
11.The end of a dissolute life is commonly a desperate death.Bion.
12.The end of all things is death.Dutch.
13.The end of the corsair is to drown.Ital.
14.There's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.Shaks.
Ends of Man.
1.In two rules he summed the ends of man: Keep all you have and try for all you can.Bulwer.
Enduring.
1.He that endureth is not overcome.
2.He that tholes (endures) overcomes.Scotch.
3.Through much enduring come things that cannot be endured.Latin.
4.You must endure that which cannot be altered.Syrus.
Enemy.
1.A dead enemy is as good as a cold friend.Ger.
2.A sly enemy is worth more than ten others.Ger.
3.An enemy does not sleep.Fr.
4.An enemy has sharp eyes and acute ears.Ger.
5.An enemy is a perpetual spy.
6.An enemy is a thorn in the quilt.Pashto.
7.An enemy may chance to give good counsel.
8.An enemy's envy is an honor.Latin.
9.An enemy's envy is his own punishment.Tamil.
10.An enemy's present is no favor.M. Greek.
11.An enemy to beauty is a foe to nature.
12.An enemy who begging forgiveness lies at thy feet must not feel thy sword.
13.An old enemy becomes not a friend.M. Greek.
14.An open enemy is better than a false friend.Ger.
15.Be my enemy and go to my mill.Sp.
16.Be my enemy far from me he may live a thousand years.Turk.
17.Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.Turk.
18.Best dealing with the enemy when you take him at the weakest.
19.Better a wise enemy than a foolish friend.M. Greek.
20.Better to have the enemy in front than in the rear.
21.Beware of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.Sp.
22.Build golden bridges for the flying foe.Ger.
23.Consider that an enemy may become a friend.Syrus.
24.Do not despise your enemy.
25.Do not spread your corn to dry at an enemy's door.Asturian.
26.Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom.Dan.
27.Every one has both enemies and friends.Ger.
28.For a flying enemy make a silver bridge.
29.He is above his enemies that despises their injuries.
30.He that dallies with his enemy gives him leave to kill him.
31.He who feeds a wolf strengthens his enemy.Dan.
32.He who has enemies let him not sleep.Sp.
33.He who has three enemies must agree with two.Ger.
34.He who makes light of his enemy dies by his hand.Sp.
35.His own enemy is no one's friend.Ger.
36.How learned a thing it is to beware of the humblest enemy.Ben Jonson.
37.If I wished to punish an enemy, I would make him hate somebody.Hannah More.
38.If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
39.If we be enemies to ourselves, whither shall we fly.
40.If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.
41.If you would make an enemy, lend a man money and ask it of him again.
42.In an enemy spots are soon seen.
43.It is a miserable lot to be without an enemy.Syrus.
44.Little enemies and little wounds are not to be despised.Ger.
45.Look with suspicion upon the flight of an enemy.Ital.
46.Make a silver bridge for a flying enemy.Sp., Por.
47.Make no enemies.Cingalese.
48.Man has not a greater enemy than himself.Petrarch.
49.Many enemies, much honor.Ger.
50.Never fight an enemy while it is possible to cheat him.
51.No enemy is so despicable but he may do one a vexatious turn.L'Estrange.
52.No man is without enemies.Arabian.
53.Once an enemy always an enemy.
54.One can learn even from an enemy.Ger.
55.One enemy can harm you more than a hundred friends can do you good.Ger.
56.One should not believe the enemy though he tell the truth.Ger.
57.Out of a secret enemy one must make an open one.Ger.
58.Receive instruction from an enemy.Ovid.
59.So many slaves so many enemies.Ger.
60.That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.Latin.
61.The body of a dead enemy always smells well.Charles IX. of France.
62.The enemy is sleepless.Ger.
63.The officer who grapples with the enemy can never be wrong.Nelson.
64.The stouter the enemy the more glorious the victory.Ger.
65.The weakness of the enemy makes our own strength.Fr.
66.There is no enemy that cannot do harm.Ger.
67.There is no little enemy.
68.There is no such thing as an insignificant enemy.Fr.
69.Though thy enemy seem a mouse, yet watch him like a lion.
70.Though you are bound to love your enemy, you are not bound to put your sword in his hand.
71.To learn of an enemy has always been accounted honorable.Dr. Johnson.
72.Water sleeps, the enemy wakes.Turk.
73.We carry our greatest enemies within us.
74.We have met the enemy and he is ours.Perry.
75.What signifies dying the day after thine enemy.Arabian Nights.
76.When thine enemy retreateth make him a golden bridge.Dutch.
77.When two enemies blow one horn the third will have to suffer for it.Dan.
78.When you are on the road speak not ill of your enemy.Sp.
79.Who is your enemy? A man of your own trade.Sp.
80.Your enemy makes you wise.Ital.
England, Englishman.
1.A right Englishman knows not when a thing is well.
2.England is the paradise of woman, the hell of horses and the purgatory of servants.
3.Every Englishman's house is his castle.
4.He that would England win Must with Ireland first begin.
5.Saxon industry and Norman manners will never agree.Bea.
6.The English never value anything until they lose it.(Talleyrand made this remark in regard to the colonies of that country.)
7.The Englishman weeps, the Irishman sleeps, but the Scotsman goes until he gets it.
8.The Italianized Englishman is a devil incarnate.Ital.
9.When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.Dr. Johnson.
Enough.
1.Enough is as good as a feast.Dutch.
2.Enough is as good as a feast to one that is not a beast.
3.Enough is a feast, too much vanity.
4.Enough is better than a sack full.Ger.
5.Enough is better than too much.Fr., Dutch.
6.Enough is enough of bread and cheese.
7.Enough is great riches.Dan.
8.Enough to keep the wolf from the door.
9.Good enough is never ought.
10.Leave well enough alone.
11.More than enough is too much.
12.Of enough men leave.
13.That is never to be called little which a man thinks to be enough.
14.There is never enough where naught is left.Ital.
15.There is not enough if there is not too much.Fr.
16.What is enough is never little.Fr.
Enterprising.
1.The enterprising are often fortunate.Bea.
Envy.
1.A man envies every other man except his son and his pupil.Hebrew.
2.A quarrel in a neighbor's house is refreshing. i.e., to envious persons.Tamil.
3.After honor and state, follow envy and hate.Dutch.
4.All envy is between neighbors.Ger.
5.An envious man is a squint-eyed fool.
6.An envious man waxes lean with the fatness of his neighbor.
7.As a moth gnaws a garment, so does envy consume a man.Chrysostomus.
8.As love thinks no evil, so envy thinks no good.
9.As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.Anisthenes.
10.Bad eyes never see any good.
11.Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates the excellence it cannot reach.Thomson.
12.Better the envy of enemies than the pity of friends.Ger.
13.Envy always pursues the fortunate and meritorious.Arabian.
14.Envy assails the noblest, the winds howl around the highest peaks.Arabian.
15.Envy and covetousness are never satisfied.
16.Envy beats itself.Ger.
17.Envy crieth of spite where honor rideth.Dutch.
18.Envy does not enter an empty house.Dan.
19.Envy doth merit like its shade pursue.Aristophanes.
20.Envy envies itself.Ger.
21.Envy feeds on the living, it ceases when they are dead.Ovid.
22.Envy follows good fortune.Ger.
23.Envy goes beyond avarice.Fr.
24.Envy has made no man rich.Ger.
25.Envy is a kind of praise.Gay.
26.Envy is an awkward homage that inferiority pays to merit.La Motte.
27.Envy is blind and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.Livy.
28.Envy is its own torture.Dan.
29.Envy is productive of hatred, and pity borders on contempt.Gibbon.
30.Envy is the mean man's gratitude.Bulwer.
31.Envy is the sorrow of fools.Ger.
32.Envy is the worst disease.Ger.
33.Envy like fire soars upward.Livy.
34.Envy makes sorrow.Ger.
35.Envy which turns pale, And sickens even if a friend prevail.Churchill.
36.Envy never has a holiday.Latin.
37.Envy never yet enriched any man.
38.Envy no man.
39.Envy not the store Of the greatest man that grinds the poor.Dryden.
40.Envy sets the stronger seal on desert.Ben Jonson.
41.Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.
42.Envy—the dyspepsia of the mind.Punch.
43.Envy was never a good spokesman.
44.Envy will be a science when it learns the use of the microscope.Bulwer.
45.He who envies, suffers.Ger.
46.He who envies us admits his inferiority.Latin.
47.If envy were a fever all the world would be ill.Dan.
48.Many owe their fortunes to their enviers.
49.No one lives who does not envy.Ger.
50.Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
51.Nothing sharpens sight like envy.
52.The envious hurts others something, but himself more.
53.The envious man grows lean at the success of his neighbors.Horace.
54.The envious man's face grows sharp and his eyes big.Sp., Por.
55.The envious man, who sends away his mutton because the person next him is eating venison.Punch.
56.The envious die, but envy never.Fr.
57.The fortunate or the brave can afford to laugh at envy.Syrus.
58.The greatest mischief you can do to the envious is to do well.
59.The over envious are not over wise.Massinger.
60.The Sicilian tyrants never devised a greater punishment than envy.Juvenal.
61.The smoke (envy) follows the fairest.
62.There are some who see ill and would like to see worse.Ital.
63.Those that are advanced by degrees are less envied than those that are advanced suddenly.Bacon.
64.Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.Dr. Johnson.
65.Two things ought to be the object of our fear, the envy of our friends and the hatred of our enemies.Bias.
66.When fortune's chariot rolls easily, envy and shame cling to the wheels.Dan.
67.With fame in just proportion envy grows, The man that makes a character makes foes.Young.
Equality.
1.Equality causes no war.Solon.
Equity.
1.Equity is half religion.Turk.
Equivocation.
1.Equivocation is first cousin to a lie.
Erring, Error.
1.A monarch's errors are forbidden game.Cowper.
2.Each is enslaved by the same error and the only difference is it mocks them in different ways.Horace.
3.Erring is not cheating.Ger.
4.Error is always in haste.
5.Error is no payment.Ital.
6.Error though blind herself sometimes brings forth children that can see.
7.Errors in the first concoction are hardly mended in the second.
8.Every age confutes old errors and begets new.
9.Find earth where grows no weed and you may find a heart where no error grows.Knowles.
10.He never errs who sacrifices himself.Bulwer.
11.He who stops half way is only half in error.Ger.
12.Him who errs forgive once, but never twice.Sp.
13.Improve rather by other men's errors than find fault with them.
14.It is a manly act to forsake an error.
15.It is human to err but diabolical to persevere.
16.No errors are so dangerous as those of great men.
17.Nothing can give stability and durable uniformity to error.Bolingbroke.
18.One error breeds twenty more.
19.The errors of young men are the ruin of business.Bacon.
20.To err again on the same string.
21.To err is human, to forgive divine.Pope, Ger., Dutch.
22.To err is human, to persevere in error is the act of a fool.Latin.
23.Who errs in the tens errs in the thousands.Ital.
Eschewed.
1.What cannot be eschewed must be embraced.Shaks.
Estate.
1.An estate inherited is the less valued.Por.
2.Estates are landscapes gazed upon awhile, Then advertised and auctioneered away.Cowper.
3.He has a good estate but that the right owner keeps it from him. (Ironically spoken.)
4.He that gets an estate will probably never spend it.
5.He who walks daily over his estate finds a coin each time.Hebrew.
6.It is a hard thing to have a great estate and not fall in love with it.
7.It is good to be near of kin to an estate.
8.Many would have been worse, if their estates had been better.
9.The bones of a great estate are worth the picking.
10.To the world no bug-bear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.Pope.
11.What is a great estate good for if it bring melancholy?
Esteem.
1.Ill grounded passions quickly wear away, What's built upon esteem can ne'er decay.Walsh.
Eternity.
1.Eternity has no gray hairs.
2.Eternity whose end no eye can reach.Milton.
Euclid.
1.You may dance on the ropes without reading Euclid.
Eve.
1.Eve is not yet dead.Ger.
Even.
1.Even paupers live on the parish page.Bulwer.
2.Even speed when we are anxious seems like delay.Syrus.
3.Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish.
4.Even the dog gets bread by wagging his tail.Ital.
5.Even workhouses have their aristocracy.Maga.
Evening.
1.The evening crowns the day.
Every.
1.Every back hath its pack.London Truth.
2.Every bean hath its black.
3.Every block will not make a Mercury.
4.Every gap hath its bush.
5.Every glow-worm is not a fire.Ital., Ger.
6.Every herring must hang by its own gill.
7.Every hill has its valley.Ital.
8.Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
9.Every Jack must have his Jill.
10.Every light has its shadow.
11.Every light is not the sun.
12.Every man has equal strength to sail.
13.Every man has his liking.Dan.
14.Every man is not bred at a varsity (university).Fielding.
15.Every man to his taste.Fr.
16.Every “maybe” hath a “maybe not.”
17.Every medal has its reverse.Fr., Ital.
18.Every monster hath its multitudes.
19.Every mote doth not blind a man.
20.“Every one as she likes,” as the old woman said when she kissed the cow.
21.Every one hath a penny for a new ale-house.
22.Every one his own is but fair.Fr.
23.Every one is emperor in his own ground.Ger.
24.Every one's censure is first moulded in his own nature.
25.Every one must row with the oars he has.
26.Every one speaks as he is.
27.Every one speaks of the feast (or the fair) as he finds it.Sp., Por.
28.Every one stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet.Sp., Por.
29.Every one takes his flogging in his own way.
30.Every one to his equal.Por.
31.Every one to his own calling and the ox to the plough.Ital.
32.Every one tries to cross the fence where it is lowest.Dan.
33.Every opinion has its answer.M. Greek.
34.Every plummet is not for every sound.
35.Every pomegranate has its rotten pip.Latin.
36.Every procession must end.Bea.
37.Every reed will not make a pipe.
38.Every rumor is believed when directed against the unfortunate.Syrus.
39.Every scale has its counterpoise.
40.Every shop has its trick.Ital.
41.Every slip is not a fall.
42.Every sore-eyed person is an oculist.
43.Every sprat now-a-days calls itself a herring.
44.Everything does not fall that totters.Fr.
45.Everything has an end except a sausage which has two.Dan.
46.Everything has its price as the old woman said when she sold the rotten apples.Ger.
47.Everything has two sides.Dutch.
48.Everything is good for something.Ital.
49.Everything is good in its season.Ital.
50.Everything is good in its way.Maga.
51.Everything is the worse for wearing.
52.Everything may be except a ditch without a bank.
53.Everything may be repaired except the neckbone.Ital.
54.Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.Fr.
55.Everything would be well were there not a but.Ger.
56.Every tub must stand on its own bottom.Dan.
57.Every vine must have its stake.Ital.
58.Every tub smells of the wine it holds.
Evil.
1.A small evil is a great good.Greek.
2.An evil lesson is soon learned.
3.An evil life is a kind of death.Ovid.
4.Better suffer a great evil than do a little one.
5.Better to suffer a known evil than to change for uncertain good.Sp.
6.Depart from evil and do good.Bible.
7.Do not stir up an evil that has been fairly buried.Latin.
8.Evil to him who evil thinks. (Honi soi qui mal-y-pense.)Motto of Great Britain.
9.Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.Don Quixote.
10.Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
11.Evil communications corrupt good manners.
12.Evil conduct is the root of misery.Chinese.
13.Evil doing costs more than well doing.Ger.
14.Evil fall on him who goes to seek it.Don Quixote.
15.Evil gains are as bad as a loss.Hesiod.
16.Evil got, evil spent.
17.Evil habits soil a fine dress more than mud.Plautus.
18.Evil is fittest to consort with evil.Livy.
19.Evil is soon believed.
20.Evil is soon done but slowly mended.Dan.
21.Evil must be drawn out by evil.Dan.
22.Evil they sow and sorrow will they reap for their harvest.Southey.
23.Evil wastes itself.Dan.
24.Evils that are past should not be mourned.
25.He sucked evil from the dug.
26.How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened.
27.Let us permit men to speak evil of us; is it not sufficient they cannot do it?Augustus.
28.Never do evil that good may come of it.Ital.
29.No evil is great if it is the last.Nepos.
30.No face all ugly e'er was seen on earth, No heart all evil e'er from Eve had birth.
31.Of two evils choose the least.
32.Some evils are cured by contempt.
33.That evil which is old at night is yet the offspring of every morning.Hebrew.
34.That which is evil is soon learnt.
35.The evil comes upon us all at once like sticks upon a dog.Don Quixote.
36.The evil is lessened when it is seen beforehand.Latin.
37.The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.Shaks.
38.The evil which issues from thy mouth falls into thy bosom.Sp.
39.The evil wound is cured but not the evil name.
40.The last evil smarts the most.
41.There are evils which compared to others are benefits.
42.Three great evils come out of the north, a cold wind, a cunning knave and a shrinking cloth.
43.To a mortal man no evil is immortal.
44.To every evil doer his evil day.Sp.
45.We will not believe the existence of evil until it is upon us.La Fontaine.
46.Who does not punish evil invites it.Ger.
47.Who doth no evil is apt to suspect none.
Example.
1.A good example is the best sermon.
2.Admiral Byng was shot to encourage others.Voltaire.
3.Example does more than much teaching.Ger.
4.Examples of justice are more merciful than the unbounded exercise of pity.Machiavelli.
5.Examples teach more than precepts.
6.Examples work stronger and quicker in the minds of men than precepts.Fielding.
7.Follow example: Literal: Recite according to the book.Chinese.
8.Follow example in drawing your calabash.Chinese.
9.Follow the good and learn to be so.Chinese.
10.Good example is half a sermon.Ger.
11.Ill examples are like contagious diseases.
12.One ill example spoils many good.
13.Profit by good example.
14.The example of good men is visible philosophy.
15.Unless parents set a good example to their children they will furnish a plain reason to be used by them against themselves.Euripides.
16.Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows.
Excess.
1.All the virtues by excess degenerate into vices.
2.Beware of excess.
3.Every excess becomes a vice.Latin.
4.Everything in excess is adverse to nature.Hippocrates.
5.He that exceeds the commission must answer for it at his own cost.Ger.
6.Nothing to excess.La Fontaine.
7.To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper light To seek the beauteous eye of Heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.Shaks.
Excuse.
1.A poor excuse is better than none.Latin.
2.An unasked excuse infers transgression.Ital.
3.An excuse is good if it hold good.Ital.
4.Any excuse will serve when one has not a mind to do a thing.Ital.
5.Better a bad excuse than none at all.
6.He that does amiss never lacks excuses.Ital.
7.He who excuses himself, accuses himself.Fr., Ital., Dutch.
8.That which is customary requires no excuse.Ital.
9.Why should excuse be born or e'er begot.Shaks.
Execution.
1.Speedy execution is the mother of good fortune.
Exertion.
1.Lambs don't run into the mouth of the sleeping wolf.Dan.
2.No great good comes without looking after it.
3.No pear falls into a shut mouth.Ital.
4.Roast geese don't come flying into the mouth.Dutch.
5.Roast pigeons don't fly through the air.
6.You may gape long enough ere a bird fall in your mouth.
Exiles.
1.Exiles, the proverb says, subsist on hope.Euripides.
Expect.
1.Expect not at another's hand what you can do by your own.Sp.
2.Expect to be treated as you have treated others.Latin.
3.To expect to expect, is worth four hundred drachms.
Expedient.
1.Many things lawful are not expedient.
Expense.
1.Set thy expense according to thy trade.Dutch.
Expenses.
1.The sole sign of a man being in his senses Is learning to reduce his past expenses.Byron.
Experience.
1.A bitten child dreads a dog.
2.A burnt cat shuns the fire-place.Tamil.
3.A burnt child dreads the fire.
4.A novice at the first attempt, an adept at the second.Chinese.
5.A scalded cat dreads cold water.Fr., Por.
6.A scalded dog thinks cold water hot.Ital.
7.After mischance every one is wise.Fr.
8.All is but lip wisdom that wanteth experience.
9.By falling we learn to go safely.Dutch.
10.Could everything be done twice everything would be done better.Ger.
11.Even the fool knows from experience.Hesiod.
12.Experience breedeth art, lack of experience chance.Ben Jonson.
13.Experience is good if not bought too dear.
14.Experience is the best teacher.
15.Experience is the blind man's dog.Punch.
16.Experience is the fool's master, reason the wise man's.Ger.
17.Experience is the father of wisdom and memory the mother.
18.Experience is the great baffler of speculation.
19.Experience is the great test of truth and is perpetually contradicting the theories of men.Dr. Johnson.
20.Experience is the mistress of fools.Latin.
21.Experience is the mother of science.
22.Experience joined to common-sense, To mortals is a providence.Green.
23.Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other.
24.Experience makes fools wise.
25.Experience purchased by suffering teaches wisdom.Latin.
26.Experience teaches fools and he is a great one that will not learn by it.
27.Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
28.He knows the water best who has waded through it.Dan.
29.He who has been bitten by a snake is afraid of an eel.
30.He who has been stung by a scorpion is afraid of its shadow.Sp.
31.He who has been stung by a serpent is afraid of a lizard.Ital.
32.He who has crossed the ford knows how deep it is.Ital.
33.He who has once burnt his mouth always blows his soup.Ger.
34.I know by my own pot how the others boil.Fr.
35.Once bit, twice shy.
36.Personal experience is better than book learning.
37.Scalded cats fear even cold water.
Experiment.
1.Make your experiment on a worthless subject.Latin.
Extravagance.
1.He builds cages fit for oxen to keep his birds in.
2.He burns his candle at both ends.Dutch.
3.He that runs out by extravagance must retrieve by parsimony.
Extremes.
1.All extremes are vicious and come from man. All compensation is just and comes from God.La Bruyère.
2.Avoid extremes and shun the fault of such Who still are pleased too little or too much.Pope.
3.Clasp not the corpse from fear of the ghost. (Don't rush to extremes.)Malay.
4.Extremes meet.Fr.
5.It is best to be cautious and to avoid extremes.Plutarch.
6.Run not from one extreme to another.
Eye.
1.A chaste eye exiles licentious looks.
2.A man who has but one eye must take good care of it.Fr.
3.All that you get you can put in your eye and see none the worse.
4.An evil eye can see no good.Dan.
5.An eye finds more truth than two ears.Ger.
6.Better eye out than always watching.
7.Better one-eyed than stone blind.Ger., Sp.
8.Cure your sore eyes only with your elbow.
9.Four eyes see more than two.
10.He that would keep his eye sound must tie up his hand.Por.
11.Her eyes are homes of silent prayer.Tennyson.
12.I went to cross myself and put out one of my eyes.Sp., Por.
13.If the eye do not admire the heart will not desire.Ital.
14.If the eye don't see the heart won't break.Sp.
15.If you have a sore eye wipe it with your elbow.Fr.
16.In every battle the eye is first conquered.Tacitus.
17.In the forehead and the eye the lecture of the mind doth lie.
18.It is all in my eye. (An expression sometimes used to express disbelief in an improbable statement.)
19.It is better to trust the eye than the ear.Ger.
20.It is the open eye that weeps.Dr. South.
21.Many see more with one eye than others with two.Ger.
22.One bad eye spoils the other.Ger.
23.One may have good eyes and see nothing.Ital.
24.Out with the eye that profits me not.Turk.
25.The eye believes itself, the ear other people.Ger.
26.The eye is a shrew.
27.The eye is bigger than your belly.Ger.
28.The eye is blind if the mind is absent.Ital.
29.The eye is never satisfied with seeing.Ger.
30.The eye is the pearl of the face.
31.The eye of the housewife makes the cow fat.Ger.
32.The eye of the master does more than both his hands.
33.The eye of the master fattens the steed.Fr., Ital., Sp., Dan.
34.The eye of the master is the horse's grooming.Turk.
35.The eye of the master makes the horse fat and that of the mistress the chambers neat.Dutch.
36.The eye strays not while under the guidance of reason.Syrus.
37.The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
38.The eyes believe themselves, the ears other people.Ger.
39.The eyes of the great are dim.Turk.
40.The eyes of the hare are one thing and the eyes of the owl another.M. Greek.
41.The eyes serve for ears to the deaf.Ital.
42.The eyes, the ears, the tongue, all fast in their way.
43.The one-eyed is king in the land of the blind.Fr., Ger., Sp., Por.
44.There are eyes that fall in love with bleared ones.Sp.
45.Two eyes see more than one.Por.
46.Wanting to make right the eyebrows he pulled out his eyes.Turk.
47.What I see with my eyes I can guess with my fingers.Sp.
48.What the eye sees not, the heart craves not.Dutch.
49.What the eye sees not, the heart rues not.Fr., Ital., Ger.
50.What the eye sees not breaks not the heart.Don Quixote.
51.What the eyes see the heart believes.Ger.
52.Woe be to an evil eye.Dan.
Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages

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