Proverbs By Language

"All experience is an arch, to build upon. (Henry Adams)"

"The exception proves the rule."

"Example is better than correction."

"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

"Of two evils choose the least."

"Evil begets evil."

"Avoid evil and it will avoid thee. (Strauss, 1994 p. 520)"

"What everybody says must be true. (Strauss 1994, p. 77)"

"Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."

"Every rose has its thorn."

"Every maybe hath a may not be."

"Eternity is in love with the productions of time. (William Blake)"

"An Englishman's house (home) is his castle. (17th century)"

"Energy is Eternal Delight. (William Blake)"

"We carry our greatest enemies within us."

"There is no little enemy. (Strauss 1994, p. 718)"

"If you have no enemies it is a sign that fortune has forgotten you."

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

"Do not think that one enemy is insignificant, or that a thousand friends are too many. (Strauss 1994, p. 71)"

"Whatever you do, act wisely, and consider the end. (Strauss, 1994 p. 600)"

"All's well that ends well."

"Empty vessels make the greatest sound."

"Egotist: a person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"You can't have an omelette unless you break the egg."

"He that steals an egg will steal an ox. (Strauss, 1994 p. 962)"

"Eggs and oaths are soon broken. (Strauss, 1998 p. 765)"

"Better an egg today than a hen tomorrow."

"Education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Eavesdroppers hear no good of themselves."

"You don't shit where you eat."

"Good eating deserves good drinking."

"It's easy to be wise after the event."

"Easier said than done. (15th century)"

"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet... (Rudyard Kipling)"

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. (1639)"

"Take heed what you say. Walls have ears. (James Shirley)"

"In at one ear and out at the other. (14th century)"

"Dwarf on a giant's shoulder sees farther of the two."

"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."

"Once a drunkard always a drunkard. (Strauss, 1994 p. 771)"

"Constant dropping wears away the stone."

"What's drinking? / A mere pause from thinking. (Lord Byron)"

"We are such stuff / As dreams are made of."

"Dreams go by contraries."

"When in doubt, leave it out."

"When in doubt, do nothing."

"When in doubt, don't. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1223)"

"The door swings both ways."

"Eat your own dog food."

"The guilty dog barks the loudest."