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PROVERBS STARTING WITH  - E -

Each bay, its own wind.
Proverb, (Fijian)

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.
Proverb

Each cross hath its inscription.
Proverb

Each hour injures, the last one slays.
Proverb, (Latin)

Each man has his peculiar hobby.
Proverb, (Latin)

Each man must ride the road of his own fate.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads its innocence.
Proverb

Eagles catch no flies.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Eagles do not breed doves.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)

Eagles don't catch flies.
Proverb

Early marriage, long love.
Proverb, (German)

Early master, soon knave.
Proverb

Early ripe, early rotten.
Proverb, (Latin)

Early rising is most conducive to health.
Proverb, (Latin)

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Proverb, (German)

Early to rise and late to bed, lifts again the debtor's head.
Proverb, (German)

Early, not late remedies are the most effective.
Proverb, (Latin)

Earnestness and sport go well together.
Proverb, (Danish)

Earth is dearer than gold.
Proverb, (Estonian)

Ease and honour are seldom bed-fellows.
Proverb

Ease and success are fellows.
Proverb

Easier to bend the body than the will.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Easier to rule a nation than a son.
Proverb, (Chinese)

East or west, home is best.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)

East, west, home's best.
Proverb

Easy come, easy go.
Proverb, (American)

Easy does it.
Proverb

Easy to believe in heaven's law, but so hard to keep.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Easy to enroll a thousand soldiers. But, ah, one general!.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Easy to keep the castle that was never besieged.
Proverb

Easy to know men's faces, not their hearts.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Easy to run downhill, much puffing to run up.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Easy to say is hard to do.
Proverb, (French)

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.
Proverb, (Greek)

Eat at pleasure, drink by measure.
Proverb

Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by measure.
Proverb, (French)

Eat bread that's light, and cheese by weight.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Eat coconuts while you have teeth.
Proverb, (Singhalese)

Eat of your own, and call yourself mine (i.e. Be my servant and find yourself).
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Eat the wind and swallow bitterness.
Proverb

Eat to live, not live to eat.
Proverb

Eat vegetables and fear no creditors, rather than eat duck and hide.
Proverb, (Hebrew)

Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.
Proverb, (Latin)

Eat what is cooked; listen to what is said.
Proverb, (Russian)

Eat whatever thou likest, but dress as others do.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Eat whatever you like, but dress as others do.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Eat with him, and beware of him.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we shall die.
Proverb, (American)

Eaten bread is forgotten.
Proverb

Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
Proverb, (Italian)

Eating and drinking
Shouldn't keep us from thinking.
Proverb

Eating and drinking holds body and soul together.
Proverb, (German)

Eating and scratching want but a beginning.
Proverb, (Romanian)

Eating sets the head to rights.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Eating teaches drinking.
Proverb, (Italian)

Eating while seated makes one of large size; eating while standing makes one strong.
Proverb, (Hindu)

Education begins in a gentleman, conversation completes him.
Proverb

Education is the poor man's haven.
Proverb, (Latin)

Eels become accustomed to skinning.
Proverb

Eggs and oaths are easily broken.
Proverb, (Danish)

Eggs are put to hatch on a chance.
Proverb, (French)

Eggs cannot teach a hen.
Proverb, (Russian)

Eggs have no business dancing with stones.
Proverb, (Italian)

Eggs should not fight stones.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

Egotism is an alphabet of one letter.
Proverb, (Scottish)

Either a feast or a fast.
Proverb

Either a man or a mouse.
Proverb

Either a ship or a tuft of feathers.
Proverb, (Latin)

Either by might or by sleight.
Proverb

Either Caesar, or nobody.
Proverb, (Latin)

Either do as your neighbors do, or move away.
Proverb, (Moroccan)

Either fight not with priests or beat them to death.
Proverb, (German)

Either never attempt a thing or carry it out.
Proverb, (Latin)

Either rich or hanged.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Either the ass will die, or he that goads it.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Either you sink or you swim.
Proverb

Elbow grease is the best polish.
Proverb, (English)

Elbow-grease is a great preventative of disease.
Proverb, (French)

Eleven persons take eleven paths.
Proverb, (Kashmiri)

Eloquence avails nothing against the voice of gold.
Proverb, (Latin)

Empty barrels give the most sound.
Proverb, (Danish)

Empty barrels make the most noise.
Proverb, (Swedish)

Empty casks make the most noise.
Proverb, (French)

Empty casks make the most sound.
Proverb, (German)

Empty expressions. Bombast.
Proverb, (Latin)

Empty pitchers ring loudest.
Proverb

Empty rooms make giddy housewives.
Proverb, (French)

Empty sacks will never stand upright.
Proverb

Empty the clear path to heaven, crowded the dark road to hell.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Empty the glass if you would judge of the drink.
Proverb, (Latin)

Empty vessels make most noise.
Proverb, (Italian)

Empty vessels make much noise.
Proverb, (Kashmiri)

Empty vessels make the most sound.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Empty waggons make most noise.
Proverb, (Danish)

Emulation begets emulation.
Proverb, (Latin)

Emulation is the whetstone of talent.
Proverb, (Latin)

Emulation is the whetstone of wit.
Proverb, (Latin)

England is the paradise of women, the hell of horses, and the purgatory of servants.
Proverb

England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity.
Proverb

Enjoy your little while the fool seeks for more.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Enjoy yourself, for there is nothing in the world we can call our own.
Proverb, (Maltese)

Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Enjoying the fruits of the labour of others.
Proverb, (Latin)

Enough is better than a sackful.
Proverb, (German)

Enough is better than too much.
Proverb, (Dutch, French)

Enough is enough, and too much spoils.
Proverb, (Italian)

Enough is great riches.
Proverb, (Danish)

Enough shovels of earth make a mountain, enough pails of water a river.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Enough's as good as a feast.
Proverb

Enough, even to loathing.
Proverb, (Latin)

Enter not at all, or else pass through.
Proverb, (Latin)

Entreat him in jackass fashion; if he won't carry the sack, give him a whack.
Proverb, (German)

Entreat the churl and the bargain is broken off.
Proverb, (Italian)

Entreaties to get him to sing, and entreaties to leave off.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Entreaty and right do the deed.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Envy crieth of spite where honour rideth.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Envy does not enter an empty house.
Proverb, (Danish)

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.
Proverb, (German)

Envy envies itself.
Proverb, (German)

Envy goes beyond avarice.
Proverb, (French)

Envy is its own torturer.
Proverb, (Danish)

Envy is the companion of glory.
Proverb, (Latin)

Envy never enriched any man.
Proverb

Envy never has a holiday.
Proverb, (Latin)

Envy no man.
Proverb, (Latin)

Envy shoots at others and wounds herself.
Proverb

Envy waits on boasting.
Proverb, (Latin)

Envy was never a good spokesman.
Proverb, (Danish)

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
Proverb, (Persian)

Erring is not cheating.
Proverb, (German)

Error is no payment.
Proverb, (Italian)

Escaping from the smoke he falls into the fire.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Eternal peace lasts only until the next war.
Proverb, (Russian)

Even a blind pig finds an acorn every once in awhile.
Proverb

Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn sometimes.
Proverb

Even a boy can beat a man when bound.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even a child may beat a man that's bound.
Proverb

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.
Proverb, (Polish)

Even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.
Proverb, (American)

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.
Proverb, (Korean)

Even a fly can show temper.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even a fly has got a belly.
Proverb, (Polish)

Even a fly has its anger.
Proverb, (Italian)

Even a fly has its spleen.
[Lat., Habet et musca splenem.]
Proverb, (Italian, Latin)

Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent, and discerning if he holds his tongue.
Proverb

Even a fool sometimes speaks to the purpose.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even a frog would bite if it had teeth.
Proverb, (Italian)

Even a hair casts its shadow.
Proverb, (German)

Even a hair hath its shadow.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even a hare will bite when it is cornered.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Even a hare will insult a dead lion.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even a horse, though he has four feet, stumbles.
Proverb, (Italian)

Even a mangy camel will carry more that a herd of asses.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even a sheet of paper has two sides.
Proverb, (Japanese)

Even a small star shines in the darkness.
Proverb, (Danish)

Even a straw becomes heavy, if you carry it far enough.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade.
Proverb, (Japanese)

Even a tin knocker will shine on a dirty floor.
Proverb, (Irish)

Even a worm will turn.
Proverb

Even among the apostles there was a Judas.
Proverb, (Italian)

Even an ass will not fall twice in the same quicksand.
Proverb

Even children of the same mother look different.
Proverb, (Korean)

Even clever hens sometimes lay their eggs among nettles.
Proverb, (Danish)

Even counted sheep are eaten by the wolf.
Proverb, (German, Italian)

Even crumbs are bread.
Proverb, (Danish)

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.
Proverb

Even foxes are caught.
Proverb, (Italian)

Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom.
Proverb, (Greek)

Even hares insult a dead lion.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even hares pull a lion by the beard when he is dead.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Even he gets on who is drawn by oxen.
Proverb, (Danish)

Even Jupiter himself cannot be in love and wise at the same time.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even light takes a decade to travel ten light-years.
Proverb

Even little things have their peculiar grace.
[Lat., Inest sua gratia parvis.]
Proverb

Even old foxes are caught in the snare.
Proverb, (Italian)

Even reckoning makes long friends.
Proverb

Even silence speaks.
Proverb, (Hausa)

Even sugar itself may spoil a good dish.
Proverb

Even that fish may be caught that strives the hardest against it.
Proverb, (Danish)

Even the ant hath its anger.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even the beggar envies the beggar.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even the best hack stumbles once.
Proverb, (German)

Even the best writer has to erase.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Even the dog gets bread by wagging his tail.
Proverb, (Italian)

Even the fall of a dancer is a somersault.
Proverb, (Singhalese)

Even the fear of death is dispelled by music.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even the fool says a wise word sometimes.
Proverb, (Italian)

Even the fountains thirst. [Avarice is never satisfied.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Even the goats will jump on a slanted tree.
Proverb, (Polish)

Even the gods are conciliated by offerings.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even the just has need of help.
Proverb, (Italian)

Even the lion must defend himself against the flies.
Proverb, (German)

Even the rustling of leaves will alarm the hare.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even the sea. great as it is, grows calm.
Proverb, (Italian)

Even the smallest spark shines brightly in darkness.
Proverb, (Latin)

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.
Proverb, (Turkish)

Even too much praise is a burden.
Proverb

Even woods have ears.
Proverb, (Italian)

Evening red and morning grey help the traveler on his way; evening grey and morning red bring down rain upon his head.
Proverb

Ever drunk, ever dry.
Proverb

Ever one hair, only one, and the man is bald at last.
Proverb, (German)

Ever receive a present with approbation.
Proverb, (Latin)

Ever sick of the slothful guise,
Loth to bed and loth to rise.
Proverb

Every advantage has its disadvantage.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every ambitious man is a captive and every covetous one a pauper.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Every animal knows more than you do.
Proverb, (Native American Nez Perce)

Every ant has its ire.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Every art requires the whole person.
Proverb, (French)

Every ass loves to hear himself bray.
Proverb, (English)

Every bean hath its black.
Proverb

Every beast roars in its own den.
Proverb, (Bantu)

Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother.
Proverb, (Moorish)

Every beginning is hard, said the thief, when he began by stealing an anvil.
Proverb, (German)

Every bird likes its own nest best.
Proverb, (French)

Every bird needs its own feathers.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every bird sings as it is beaked.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every bird thinks its own nest beautiful.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every cask smells of the wine it contains.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Every cloud has a silver lining.
Proverb

Every clown can find fault, though it would puzzle him to do better.
Proverb, (German)

Every cock crows best on his own dunghill.
Proverb

Every cock crows on his own dunghill.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Every cock is proud on his own dung hill.
Proverb

Every cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Every cock will crow upon his own dunghill.
Proverb

Every country has its custom.
Proverb, (Spanish)


Every day a thread makes a skein in the year.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every day cannot be a feast of lanterns.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Every day gives you another chance.
Proverb

Every day has it night.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every day has its evening.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every day hath its night, every weal its woe.
Proverb

Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.
Proverb

Every day is not a holiday.
Proverb, (Dutch, Italian)

Every day of your life is a page of your history.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Every ditch is full of after-wit.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every ditch is full of your after-wits.
Proverb

Every dog has his day.
Proverb, (English)

Every dog is a lion at home.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every dog is allowed one bite.
Proverb

Every dog is entitled to one bite.
Proverb, (English)

Every dog is valiant in his own kennel.
Proverb, (French)

Every door may be shut but death's door.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every elm has its man.
Proverb

Every error has its excuse.
Proverb, (Polish)

Every eye has its look.
Proverb, (Palestinian)

Every fault is laid at the door of the hyena, but it does not steal a bale of cloth.
Proverb, (Hausa)

Every flood has it ebb.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every fly has its shadow.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Every foal is not like its sire.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can't remedy.
Proverb

Every fool is different.
Proverb, (German)

Every fool is pleased with his bauble.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Every fool is wise when he holds his tongue.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every fool likes his bauble.
Proverb, (French)

Every fool thinks he is clever enough.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every fool wants to give advice.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every fox likes a henroost.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every fox looks after his own skin.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every glowworm is not a fire.
Proverb, (German, Italian)

Every great thing only consists of many small particles united.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every hair casts its shadow.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Every hare may pluck the dead lion's mane.
Proverb, (German)

Every herring must hang by its own gill.
Proverb

Every hill has its valley.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every hooked beak is maintained by prey.
Proverb, (French)

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.
Proverb

Every house has its cross.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every innovation startles us more by its novelty than it benefits us by its utility.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every invalid is a doctor.
Proverb, (Irish)

Every Jack has his Jill.
Proverb

Every labourer is worthy of his hire.
Proverb, (German)

Every land has its own law.
Proverb

Every land to its own custom, every wheel its own spindle.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Every law is broken to become a king.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Every life has its joy, every joy its law.
Proverb, (Danish)


Every light hath its shadow.
Proverb

Every light is not the sun.
Proverb, (German)

Every little blade of grass declares the presence of God.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every little fish expects to become a whale.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every little helps to lighten the freight, said the captain, as he threw his wife overboard.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every little helps, said the sow, when she snapped at a gnat.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every little helps.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every lover is a slave: he follows captive at his mistress's heels.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every man at forty is a fool or a physician.
Proverb

Every man can rule a shrew but he who has her.
Proverb

Every man carries an enemy in his own bosom.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every man for himself, and God for us all.
Proverb, (German)

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.
Proverb

Every man for himself.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Proverb, (Persian)

Every man has a fool in his sleeve.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every man has a fool up his sleeve.
Proverb, (American)

Every man has a good wife and a bad trade.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every man has his faults.
Proverb

Every man has his liking.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every man has his lot, and a wide world before him.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every man has his peculiar habit.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every man has his value.
Proverb, (French)

Every man has one black patch, and some have two.
Proverb, (American)

Every man hath a fool in his sleeve.
Proverb

Every man hath his hobby-horse.
Proverb

Every man his own is not too much.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every man is a fool in some man's opinion.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Every man is a fool sometimes, and none at all times.
Proverb

Every man is best known to himself.
Proverb

Every man is dearest to himself.
Proverb, (German)

Every man is master in his own house.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Proverb, (Latin, Danish)

Every man is the best interpreter of his own words.
Proverb, (German)

Every man is the son of his own works.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Every man judges of others by himself.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every man likes his own praise best.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every man must carry his own sack to the mill.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every man must eat a peck of dirt before he dies.
Proverb

Every man must go to the mill with his own sack.
Proverb

Every man rejoices in his peculiar study.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every man rides his own hobby.
Proverb, (German)

Every man should support himself, and not hang upon another.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Every man thinks his copper is gold.
Proverb, (Danish, German)

Every man thinks his own geese swans.
Proverb

Every man thinks his own owl a falcon.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every man to his taste.
Proverb, (French)

Every man to his trade.
Proverb, (Greek, Portuguese)

Every man who can blow a horn is not a huntsman.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every man's friend is every man's fool.
Proverb, (Danish, Dutch)

Every man's sin falls on his own head.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every may-be hath a may-be not.
Proverb

Every medal has its reverse.
Proverb, (French, Italian)

Every miller draws the water to his own mill.
Proverb

Every miller draws water to his own mill.
Proverb

Every monkey will have his gambols.
Proverb

Every mother's child is handsome.
Proverb, (German)

Every one basteth the fat hog, while the lean one burneth.
Proverb

Every one bears his cross.
Proverb, (French)

Every one can keep house better than her mother till she trieth.
Proverb

Every one can navigate in fine weather.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every one counts for as much as he has.
Proverb, (German)

Every one draws the water to his own mill.
Proverb, (French, Italian)

Every one feels his own burden heavy.
Proverb, (French)

Every one feels the cold according as he is clad.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Every one finds fault with his own trade.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every one for himself, and God for us all.
Proverb,
(Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)

Every one gives himself credit for more brains than he has, and less money.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every one goes with his own sack to the mill.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every one has a fool in his sleeve.
Proverb, (French)

Every one has his master.
Proverb, (German)

Every one his own, is but fair.
Proverb, (French)

Every one in his own house, and God in all men's.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Every one is a king in his own house.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Every one is a preacher under the gallows.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every one is a thief in his own craft.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every one is emperor on his own ground.
Proverb, (German)

Every one is glad to see a knave caught in his own trap.
Proverb

Every one is kin to the rich man.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every one is wise after the event.
Proverb, (German)

Every one is wise for his own profit.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Every one is wise when the mischief is done.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Every one knows best where the shoe pinches him.
Proverb,
(French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)

Every one likes justice in another's house, none in his own.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every one must pay his debt to nature.
Proverb, (German)

Every one must row with the oars he has.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every one praises his own saint.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every one preaches for his own saint.
Proverb, (French)

Every one rakes the fire under his own pot.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every one reaps as he sows.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Every one says: My right is good.
Proverb, (French)

Every one sees his smart coat, no one sees his shrunken belly.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every one should sweep before his own door.
Proverb, (French)

Every one sings as he has the gift, and marries as he has the luck.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Every one sneezes as God pleases.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Every one speaks as he is.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Every one speaks of the fair as he himself finds it.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Every one speaks of the feast as he finds it.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Every one stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Every one takes his flogging in his own way.
Proverb, (French)

Every one takes his pleasure where he finds it.
Proverb, (French)

Every one thinks he has more than his share of brains.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every one thinks himself without sin because he has not those of others.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every one thinks his own a falcon.
Proverb, (German)

Every one thinks his own cross heaviest.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every one thinks that all the bells echo his own thoughts.
Proverb, (German)

Every one to his equal.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Every one to his liking.
Proverb

Every one to his own calling, and the ox to the plough.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every one to his taste, as the old woman said when she kissed her cow.
Proverb

Every one tries to cross the fence where it is lowest.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every one wishes to bring water to his own mill, and leave his neighbour's dry.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Every one's faults are not written in their foreheads.
Proverb

Every path has its puddle.
Proverb, (English)

Every patient is a doctor after his cure.
Proverb, (Irish)

Every peasant is proud of the pond in his village because from it he measures the sea.
Proverb, (Russian)

Every peddler praises his own needles.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Every pedlar praises his own needles.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Every picture tells a story.
Proverb

Every pig has it Martinmas.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Every potter praises his pot, and most of all the one that is cracked.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every potter praises his pot, especially if cracked.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Every potter vaunts his own pot.
Proverb, (French)

Every priestling conceals a popeling.
Proverb, (German)

Every promise is a debt.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every reed will not make a pipe.
Proverb

Every reproach against an accused man is contemptible.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every road has two directions.
Proverb, (Russian)

Every road leads to Rome.
Proverb, (French, Spanish)

Every rose has its thorn.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every saint has his festival.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every sandpiper praises his own swamp.
Proverb, (Russian)

Every seed knows its time.
Proverb, (Russian)

Every seller praises his wares.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Every sheep is hung by its own leg.
Proverb, (Palestinian)

Every sheet has parted. [Every hope has vanished.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Every shoe fits not every foot.
Proverb

Every shop has its trick.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every shot does not bring down a bird.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every soil does not bear the same fruit.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every stone conceals a lurking scorpion.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every suitor is not a heart breaker.
Proverb

Every sun has to set.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Every ten years one man has need of another.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.
Proverb

Every time the sheep bleats it loseth a mouthful.
Proverb

Every time you speak, your mind is on parade.
Proverb

Every to-morrow brings its bread.
Proverb, (French)

Every truth is not good to be told.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every tub must stand on its own bottom.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every vine must have its stake.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every virtue is but halfway between two vices.
Proverb, (Latin)

Every white hath its black, and every sweet its sour.
Proverb

Every why has its wherefore.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Every wind does not shake down the nut.
Proverb, (Italian)

Every wind is against a leaky ship.
Proverb, (Danish)

Every woman would rather be handsome than good.
Proverb, (German)

Everybody has a name, but not always the same luck with it.
Proverb, (Latin)

Everybody is the architect oh is own fortune.
Proverb, (German)

Everybody is wise after the thing has happened.
Proverb, (French)

Everybody knows best where his own shoe pinches.
Proverb, (German)

Everybody knows good counsel except him who has need of it.
Proverb, (German)

Everybody loves a fool, but nobody wants him for a son.
Proverb, (West African)

Everybody loves a lord.
Proverb

Everybody must live.
Proverb, (French)

Everybody must wear out one pair of fool's shoes, if he wear no more.
Proverb, (German)

Everybody says it, nobody knows it.
Proverb, (Danish, German)

Everybody thinks his own cuckoo sings better than another's nightingale.
Proverb, (German)

Everybody's busy is nobody's business.
Proverb, (German)

Everybody's companion is nobody's friend.
Proverb, (German)

Everybody's friend is true to none.
Proverb, (Norwegian)

Everybody's friend or nobody's friend, is all one.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Everybody's friend, everybody's fool.
Proverb, (German)

Everybody's friend, nobody's friend.
Proverb, (Italian)

Everybody's friends and nobody's friend is all one.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Everyone is eloquent in his own cause.
Proverb, (Latin)

Everyone is given the key to the gates of Heaven. The same key opens the gates of Hell.
Proverb

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Everyone is nice until the cow gets into the garden.
Proverb, (Irish)

Everyone is the age of their heart.
Proverb, (Guatemalan)

Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Proverb, (Irish)

Everyone must row with the oars he has.
Proverb, (English)

Everyone pushes a falling fence.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Everyone rakes the fire under his own pot.
Proverb

Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Proverb

Everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over.
Proverb

Everyone stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet.
Proverb

Everyone thinks his own burden heavy.
Proverb, (French)

Everyone thinks his own cross is heaviest.
Proverb, (Italian)

Everything beautiful is loveable.
Proverb, (Latin)

Everything does not fall that totters.
Proverb, (French)

Everything goes by favour and cousinship.
Proverb, (French)

Everything goes to him who does not want it.
Proverb, (French)

Everything has a wherefore.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Everything has an end except God.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Everything has an end--except a sausage, which has two.
Proverb, (Danish)

Everything has an end.
Proverb

Everything has its season.
Proverb, (Latin)

Everything has its time.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Everything has two handles (or two sides).
Proverb, (Dutch)

Everything hath an end, and a pudding hath two.
Proverb

Everything in its season, and turnips in Advent.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Everything in time comes to him who knows how to wait.
Proverb, (French)

Everything is good for something.
Proverb, (Italian)

Everything is good in its season.
Proverb, (Italian)

Everything is of every year.
Proverb, (Italian)

Everything is the worse for wearing.
Proverb

Everything may be borne except good fortune.
Proverb, (Italian)

Everything may be bought except day and night.
Proverb, (French)

Everything may be repaired except the neckbone.
Proverb, (Italian)

Everything must have a beginning.
Proverb, (French, Italian, Portuguese)

Everything new is beautiful.
Proverb, (Italian)

Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.
[Fr., Tout passe, tout casse, tout lasse.]
Proverb, (French)

Everything would be well were there not a "but."
Proverb, (German)

Evil be to him who evil thinks.
Proverb, (Italian)

Evil communications corrupt good manners.
Proverb

Evil does are evil dreaders.
Proverb

Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Proverb, (Ethiopian)

Evil gotten, evil spent.
Proverb

Evil is soon done, but slowly mended.
Proverb, (Danish)

Evil must be driven out by evil.
Proverb, (Danish)

Evil thoughts often come from idleness.
Proverb, (Gaelic)

Evil to him that evil thinks.
Proverb

Evil wastes itself.
Proverb, (Danish)

Evil words corrupt good manners.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Evils follow each other.
Proverb, (Latin)

Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Proverb, (Arab)

Example is better than precept.
Proverb, (Latin)

Example is the greatest of all seducers.
Proverb, (French)

Excellent people are honored wherever they go.
Proverb, (Tibetan)

Except for the night, we could never know the stars.
Proverb, (German)

Excess in anything becomes a vice.
Proverb, (Latin)

Excess of delight palls the appetite.
Proverb

Excess of obligations may lose a friend.
Proverb

Exchange is no robbery.
Proverb, (German)

Expect not at another's hand what you can do by your own.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Experience is the best teacher.
Proverb, (Latin, German)

Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
Proverb, (Belgian)

Experience is the father of wisdom.
Proverb

Experience is the mistress of fools.
Proverb

Experience keeps a dear school.
Proverb

Experience purchased by suffering teaches wisdom.
Proverb, (Latin)

Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
Proverb

Explaining what is obscure by what is still more obscure. [Making confusion worse confounded.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Extravagant offers are a kind of denial.
Proverb, (Italian)

Extreme right is extreme wrong.
Proverb, (Latin)

Eye-service is the courtier's art.
Proverb, (Danish)

Eyes that do not cry, do not see.
Proverb, (Swedish)

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