Proverb Examples from around the world

Proverbs Starting with letter E - part 4
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Everyone gets the ember close to his own sardine.
Everyone is a thief in his own craft.
Everyone is as old as their heart.

Everyone is eloquent in his own cause.
Everyone is given the key to the gates of Heaven. The same key opens the gates of Hell.
Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.
Everyone is nice until the cow gets into the garden.
Everyone is strong of the hindmind.
Everyone is tempted to evil.
Everyone is the age of their heart.
Everyone is wise until he speaks.
Everyone is worth more than his neighbor and less than his son.
Everyone knows the bear, but the bear knows no one.
Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.
Everyone makes firewood of a fallen tree.
Everyone makes lumber from a fallen tree.
Everyone must row with the oars he has.
Everyone pushes a falling fence.
Everyone rakes the fire under his own pot.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Everyone speaks well of the bridge which carries him over.
Everyone thinks his own burden heavy.
Everyone thinks his own cross is heaviest.
Everyone thinks his own spit tastes good.
Everyone tries to make the water flow to his mill.
Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die.
Everyone wants to live long, but no one wants to be called old.
Everyone will sit on a little donkey.
Everyone wipes his feet on poverty.
Everyone's the blacksmith of their own fate.
Everything beautiful is loveable.
Everything can be justified until it happens to you.
Everything changes; everything stays the same.
Everything comes to him who waits.
Everything comes to the man who does not need it.
Everything does not fall that totters.
Everything ends in weeping.
Everything goes better with a smile.
Everything goes by favour and cousinship.
Everything goes to him who does not want it.

Everything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
Everything has a wherefore.
Everything has an end.
Everything has an end -- except a sausage, which has two.
Everything has an end except God.
Everything has an end with the exception of God.
Everything has an end, only sausage has two.
Everything has an end--except a sausage, which has two.
Everything has its season.
Everything has its time.
Everything has two handles (or two sides).
Everything in its own time.
Everything in its season, and turnips in Advent.
Everything in time comes to him who knows how to wait.
Everything is formed by habit, even praying.
Everything is good for something.
Everything is good in its season.
Everything is of every year.
Everything is pure for the one who is pure.
Everything is small at the beginning and then grows; except trouble, which is big at the beginning and still grows.
Everything is worn out with usage -- except for experience.
Everything living comes from the egg.
Everything may be borne except good fortune.
Everything may be bought except day and night.
Everything may be repaired except the neckbone.
Everything must have a beginning.
Everything new is beautiful.
Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.
Everything stays as it was, headquarters at Abrantes.
Everything tastes bitter to him with gall in his mouth.
Everything that gets in is a gain.
Everything that is glitters is not gold.
Everything that shines isn't gold.
Everything unknown passes for miraculous.
Everything with time.
Everything would be well were there not a 'but.'.
Everywhere is well, at home a wife.
Everywhere is well, at home it's best.
Everywhere's fine, but best at home.
Evil be to he who evil thinks.
Evil be to him who evil thinks.
Evil communications corrupt good manners.
Evil does are evil dreaders.
Evil enters like a needle and spreads like an oak tree.
Evil enters like a splinter and spreads like an oak tree.
Evil for evil, let the Devil come and choose.
Evil gun powder doesn't go away easily.
Evil herb never dies out.
Evil is soon done, but slowly mended.

Evil knows where evil sleeps.
Evil must be driven out by evil.
Evil people know one another.
Evil thoughts often come from idleness.
Evil wastes itself.
Evil will get its pay.
Evil words corrupt good manners.
Evils follow each other.
Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Example is better than precept.
Example is the greatest of all seducers.
Excellent people are honored wherever they go.
Except for my father and my mother everybody lies.
Except for the night, we could never know the stars.
Excess in anything becomes a vice.
Excess of delight palls the appetite.
Excess of obligations may lose a friend.
Exchange is no robbery.
Excuses are always mixed with lies.
Exile is the brother of death.
Expect good if you do good.
Expect not at another's hand what you can do by your own.
Expect trust from a dog but not from a woman.
Experience costs blood.
Experience is a comb which nature gives to men when they are bald.
Experience is more important than theory.
Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best.
Experience is the best teacher.
Experience is the best teacher.' (i.e., 'Practice makes perfect.').
Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
Experience is the father of wisdom.
Experience is the mother of science.
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
Experience is the teacher of jesters and the intelligence of the wise.
Experience keeps a dear school.
Experience purchased by suffering teaches wisdom.
Experiences are the spectacles of intellect.
Explaining something to an ignorant person is harder than making a camel jump over a ditch.
Expresses strong suspicion.
Extinguish the spark before the the house is on fire, deflect the trouble before its strike.
Extol the virtue of water, but drink wine.
Extravagant offers are a kind of denial.
Extremes touch each other.
Eye-service is the courtier's art.
Eyes are(might be) afraid, but hands are doing the job.
Eyes that do not cry, do not see.

Eyes that don't see heart that doesn't feel.
Eyes that don't see, heart that doesn't feel.
Eyes trust themselves, ears trust others.

These are Proverb Examples from around the world, some have been translated from their original language to english.


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