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"Do not add oil to the fire."

"A burnt child dreads the fire."

"You always find something in the last place you look."

"Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone whom you can't live without."

"The last will be first, and the first last."

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."

"It is better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees."

"Faults are thick where love is thin. (1659)"

"The fat is in the fire."

"Fashion: a despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"Far from eye, far from heart. (14th century)"

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."

"Don't fall before you're pushed."

"Common fame is seldom to blame. (Strauss 1998, p. 662)"

"Fair play's a jewel."

"Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. (Strauss 1998, p. 713)"

"The eye looks but it is the mind that sees. (Strauss, 1994 p. 1175)"

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. (Ambrose Bierce)"

"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)"

"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)"

"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)"

"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)"

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