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| 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 does it. - T. Taylor (1863) |
| Easy come, easy go. - Chaucer (c.1343-1400) |
| 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) |
| E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| 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 Buddist priests of the same temple quarrel occasionally.- Singhalese (on the human comedy) |
| 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) |
