Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.
The empty waggon must make room for the
full one.
The end crowns all.
The end crowns the work.
The end is good, everything is good.
The end is the crown of any work.
The end justifies the means
The end justifies the means.
The end makes all equal.
The end of a feast is better than the
beginning of a fight.
The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie
is grief.
The end of life is death.
The end of mirth is the beginning of sorrow.
The end of passion is the beginning of
repentance.
The end of the corsair is to drown.
The end of the grape cluster.
The end of the HONK is BEEP.
The end of the pig is the beginning of the
sausage.
The end of the thief is the gallows.
The end of wrath is the beginning of
repentance.
The end praises the work.
The endless saver always lives in poverty.
The ends justify the means.
The enemy i know is better than the one i do
not know.
The enemy of a father will never be friends
of his son.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The enemy's own punishment is his envy.
The English always credit the rest of us with
the qualities they don't need themselves.
The English are a nation of shopkeepers.
The englishman greets, the irishman sleeps,
but the scotchman gangs till he gets it.
The entire world rests on the tip of the
tongue.
The envious man's face grows lean and his
eye swells.
The envious man's face grows sharp and his
eyes big.
The envious never give praise, they only
548
take it in.
The envious person is a sad person.
The envious was created only to be
infuriated.
The epicure puts his purse into his belly.
The error of one moment becomes the
sorrow of a whole life.
The essence of the spirit is space, there is
nothing it holds to in the end.
The evening crowns the days.
The evil everyone does lives after him or
her.
The evil is dreaded by men but not heaven;
the kind-hearted is cheated by mortals
but not God.
The evil is lessened when it is seen
beforehand.
The evil spirit of a man is a man.
The evil weed produces the largest number
of weeds.
The evil which issues from thy mouth falls
into thy bosom.
The evil wound is cured, but not the evil
name.
The evils we bring on ourselves are the
hardest to bear.
The exception confirms the rule.
The exception proves the rule.
The exception which proves the rule.
The excess of a virtue is a vice.
The excess of mirth leads to tears.
The excess of one is the shortage of another.
The excessively kind-hearted person
becomes a slave.
The execution of but one warrior brings
shame to all.
The executioner is a keen shaver.
The existence of the sea means the existence
of pirates.
The expense is more than the merchandise.
The extreme form of passionate love is
secret love.
The eye cannot bear loads yet it can tell
heavy objects from light ones.
The eye cannot penetrate darkness.