Proverbs with the letter "E, F"
- Easier said than done.
- Meaning: What is suggested sounds easy but it is more difficult to actually do it.
- Elbow grease is the best polish.
- Meaning: Hard work gives the best results.
- Empty vessels make the most noise.
- Meaning: The least intelligent people are often the most talkative or noisy.
- Every ass likes to hear himself bray.
- Meaning: People like to listen to themselves talking.
- Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Meaning: There is a positive or hopeful side to every unpleasant situation.
- Every man for himself.
- Meaning: You must think of your own interests before the interests of others.
- Every man has his price.
- Meaning: Everyone's loyalty can be bought for a price.
- Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
- Meaning: Life is what you make it.
- Every path has its puddle.
- Meaning: Progress is rarely without difficulty.
- Every rose has its thorn.
- Meaning: Every good thing has an unpleasant side.
- Every why has a wherefore.
- Meaning: There is an explanation for everything.
- Everything in the garden is rosy.
- Meaning: Everything is satisfactory.
- Experience is the father of wisdom.
- Meaning: Experience and knowledge result in better judgement.
- Everyday living is life lessons. by Allen Zimama.
- Meaning: Every negative thing has positive aspects.
- Facts speak louder than words.
- Meaning: People show what they are really like by what they do, rather than by what they say.
- Failure is the stepping stone for success.
- Meaning: Failing will make you more determined to succeed the next time you try, or make you put in more effort to get something right with successive attempts.
- Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
- o Meaning: Not speaking up or taking action to achieve things (in this case, fall in love) will never get you anywhere (or, help you fall in love).
- Falling down does not signify failure but staying there does.
- Meaning: Letting failing/falling is not failure in itself, but letting it get you down or stop trying is.
- Fall down seven times, stand up eight.
- Meaning: Fail seven times, and succeed the eighth. (Keep trying and you will succeed.)
- Familiarity breeds contempt.
- Meaning: Knowing somebody very well may lead to a lack of respect for them.
- Fine words butter no parsnips.
- Meaning: No amount of talking can replace action.
- First come, first served.
- Meaning: The first person in the line will be attended to first.
- First things first.
- Meaning: Do more important things before other things.
- Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
- Meaning: One should learn from one's mistakes.
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- Meaning: Inexperienced people act in situations that more intelligent people would avoid.
- Forewarned is forearmed.
- Meaning: If one is told about an event beforehand, they can (adequately) prepare.
- Forgive, but don't forget.
- Meaning: Let things/issues go or pass, but don't forget what they were, why they happened, other consequences, etc.
- Ease and honor are seldom bedfellows.
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Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
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East is east, and west is west.
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East, west, home's best.
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Easy come, easy go.
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Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
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Enjoy what you don't know.
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Enough is as good as a feast.
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Enough is enough.
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Even a worm will turn.
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Even a dog can distinguish between being stumbled over and being kicked.
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Even a dog can make it to the top when there's a flood.
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Even angels have teeth.
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Every dog has its day.
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Every Jack has his Jill.
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Every little helps.
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Every picture tells a story.
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Even rabbits insult an dead lion.
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Every convenience brings its own inconveniences along with it fear.
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Every stick has two ends.
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Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die.
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Everything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
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Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die.
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Even a broken/stopped clock is right twice a day.
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Even the best perfumes of the world lose their fragrance when you are not around me.
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Education is a progressive discovering of our own ignorance.
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Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
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Everything can be justified until it happens to you.
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Everything comes to those who wait.
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Everything with time.
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Everything in its own time.
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Everything changes; everything stays the same.
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Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference!
§ - Fact is stranger than fiction.
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Failing to plan is planning to fail.
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False friends are worse than open enemies.
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Failure is the first step to success.
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Failure is not falling down, you fail when you don't get back up.
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Fair exchange is no robbery.
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Faith will move mountains.
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Feed a cold and starve a fever.
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Fight fire with fire.
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Finders keepers, losers weepers.
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Fifty percent of something is better than one hundred percent of nothing.
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Friendship is love with understanding.
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Fine feathers make fine birds.
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Fingers were invented before knives and forks.
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Fire is never a gentle master.
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First impressions are the most lasting.
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First deserve, then desire.
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Fish always stinks from the head downwards.
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Fish and guests smell after three days.
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Flattery will get you nowhere.
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Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.
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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.
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Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow.
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For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost.
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Forgive and forget.
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Fortune favours the brave.
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Force without forecast is to little avail.
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Fretting cares make grey hairs.
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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.
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From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.
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From those to whom much is given, much is expected.
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