Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Earnings make weariness pass.
Ears are usually uninvited guests.
Ears do not grow higher than the head.
Ears have no covers.
Ears that do not listen to advice, accompany
the head when it is chopped off.
Earth belongs to the brave but heaven to
those who deserve it.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot
heal.
Earth is but a marketplace; heaven is home.
Earth is dearer than gold.
Earth is like a prison: we all go in through
the same door, but we stay in different
cells.
Earth is more precious than gold.
Earth is old, but it is not mad.
Earth is the queen of beds.
Earth produces all things and receives all
again.
Earthquakes, thunderbolts, fires, fathers.
Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows.
Easier said than done.
Easier to bend the body than the will.
Easier to rule a nation than a son.
Easily grasped are the crimes of a hog.
East is east, and west is west
East or west, home is best.
East, west, home's best
Easter so longed for is gone in a day.
Easy come, easy go.
Easy does it.
Easy to believe in heaven’s law, but so hard
to keep.
Easy to change young wood shape than the
old one.
Easy to enroll a thousand soldiers. But, ah,
one general!.
Easy to keep the castle that was never
besieged.
Easy to know men’s faces, not their hearts.
Easy to run downhill, much puffing to run
up.
Easy to say is hard to do.
Eat according to the limits of your
provisions; walk according to the length
of your step.
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Eat and drink measurely, and defy the
mediciners.
Eat and drink with your friends but do not
trade with them.
Eat and drink with your relatives, but do
business with strangers.
Eat and eat, mention God, God is the owner
of game.
Eat and take belly, because tomorrow the
assistant of the executioner will come to
take the skin.
Eat as much beef as you can.
Eat as small as a cat.
Eat at pleasure; drink by measure.
Eat beans for lunch and have no friends at
the dinner table.
Eat before falling in love.
Eat bread at pleasure, drink wine by
measure.
Eat bread that’s light, and cheese by weight.
Eat coconuts while you have teeth.
Eat fam’bly bittle but no cut fam’bly ‘tory.
Eat fire and your mouth burn; live on credit
and your pride will burn.
Eat in a house then excrete on the roof.
Eat in Poland, drink in Hungary, sleep in
Germany, and make love in Italy.
Eat leeks in march, garlic in may, all the rest
of the year the doctors may play.
Eat less food to find more sleep.
Eat less, live longer.
Eat little and you’ll live, speak little and
you’ll get it right, spend little and you’ll
become rich.
Eat meat and fish and live longer.
Eat not cherries with the great.
Eat of your own, and call yourself mine.
Eat the bread of the man you hate and also
of him you love.
Eat the wind and swallow bitterness.
Eat to live, but do not live to eat.
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please
others.
Eat until you are half full; drink until you
are half drunk.