Quotes starting with E

Below you will find our collection of inspirational quotes and sayings starting with the letter E, collected over the years from a variety of sources.


Quotes

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E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Each bay, its own wind.      -- Fijian (on differences)
Each person has his strong point.      -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Each year one vicious habit rooted out, in time might make the worst man good throughout.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Eagles don't catch flies.      -- Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1536)
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.      -- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
Earth is dearer than gold.     -- Estonian (on nature)
Easier said than done.      -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
East, west, home's best.      -- W.K.Kelly (1859)
Easy come, easy go.      -- Chaucer (c.1343-1400)
Easy does it.      -- T. Taylor (1863)
Eat coconuts while you have teeth.      -- Singhalese (on youth and age)
Eat to live, not live to eat.      -- Socrates (469-399 BC)
Economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the rich.      -- French (on thrift)
Eggs have no business dancing with stones.      -- Haitian (on prudence)
Empty sacks will never stand upright.      -- Italian Proverb
Empty vessels make the most sound.      -- John Lydgate (c.1370-1451)
Enough is as good as a feast.      -- Sir Thomas Malory (d.1471))
Envy has no rest.     -- Middle Eastern (on jealousy and envy)
Envy is based on an incomplete understanding of the other person's situation.      -- George Chapman (c.1559-1634)
Envy of others always shows.      -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.      -- John Philpot Curran (1750-1817)
Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.      -- Korean (on common sense)
Even a sheet of paper has two sides.      -- Japanese (on differences)
Even a worm will turn.      -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580) "Treade a worme on the tayle and it must turn agayne."
Even children of the same mother, look different.      -- Korean (on differences)
Even in Mecca, people make money.      -- Hausa (West African (on balance and moderation)
Even monkeys fall out of trees.      -- Japanese Proverb
Even the best laid plans go awry.      -- unknown
Even the best song becomes tiresome if heard too often.      -- Korean (on art and creativity)
Even the best writer has to erase.      -- Spanish (on books and writers)
Even the largest army is nothing without a good general.     -- Afghan (on leadership)
Even though you have ten thousand fields, you can eat but one measure of rice a day.      -- Chinese Proverb
Every adversity carries with it the seed of equal or greater benefit.      -- Napolean Hill ()
Every age has its book.      -- Arabic (on books and writers)
Every ass loves to hear himself bray.      -- English (on vanity and arrogance)
Every burro has his own saddle.      -- Equadoran (on differences)
Every cloud has a silver lining.      -- D.R. Locke (1863)
Every day of your life is a page of your history.     -- Arabic (on life and living)
Every dog has its day.      -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
Every dog is allowed one bite.      -- V.S. Lean (1902)
Every garden may have some weeds.      -- English Proverb
Every head is a world.      -- Cuban (on differences)
Every herring must hang by his own gill.      -- S. Harwood (1609)
Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.      -- Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)
Every jack has his jill; if only they can find each other.      -- R. Cotgrave (1611)
Every land has its own law.      -- J. Carmichael (1628)
Every man for himself.      -- John Heywood (c.1497-1580)
Every man has his price.      -- unknown
Every man has to seek his own way to make himself more noble and to realize his own true worth.      -- Albert Schweitzer
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.      -- Appius (c.470 BC)
Every peddlar praises his own needles.      -- Portuguese (on flattery and praise)
Every picture tells a story.      -- unknown
Every pot will find its lid.     -- Yiddish (on marriage)
Every tear has a smile behind it.      -- Iranian (on adversity)
Everybody makes mistakes.      -- unknown
Everyone gets their just deserts.      -- unknown
Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects.      -- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Everyone is the age of their heart.      -- Guatemalan (on youth and age)
Everyone wants to live long but no one wants to be called old.      -- Icelandic (on youth and age)
Everything comes to those who wait.      -- unknown
Everything in moderation.      -- unknown
Everything is lovely when the geese honk high.      -- unknown
Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.      -- Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
Example is the best precept.      -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
Expect the worst, but hope for the best.      -- unknown
Experience is the best teacher.      -- Latin Proverb
Experience is the mother of wisdom.      -- unknown
Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.      -- James Anthony Froude (1818-1894)