Great Throughts Treasury

"Either dance well or quit the ballroom."

"Eat beans for lunch and have no friends at the dinner table."

"Either get married early, or become a monk early."

"Endeavour to bear the ignorance of fortune with patience."

"Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers."

"Even a saint needs to be 'threatened'."

"Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom."

"Even if you are a priest, you get in line."

"Even a wolf will not stay - Where sounds no bleat to offer hope of prey."

"Even though the wolf got old and his fur is white, he neither changed his skin or his head."

"Every time the ewe goes 'Baa', she loses the same number of mouthfuls."

"Everything in its time and mackerel in August."

"Eyes that don't see each other, soon forget about each other."

"Even the best of people have their faults."

"Everything about the wedding is difficult (obstacles or objections) and the bride is pregnant."

"Faithful earth, unfaithful sea."

"First aid by God, second by neighbor."

"First secure an independent income, then practice virtue."

"First leaves the soul of a person and then his quirks."

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die."

"Flatter the sea, but stand on earth when you do so."

"For mortals vanished from the day's sweet light I shed no tear rather I mourn for those who day and night live in death's fear."

"For (because of) the nail he lost the horseshoe."

"For the new house, the first year is your enemy's, the second is your own, and the third your reason/logic's."

"For the enemy that leaves, build a golden bridge."

"From a child and a crazy person you learn the truth."

"From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn."

"Force and violence were given by God."

"Gays will have equality one day."

"From far away and beloved rather than close by and arguing."

"Good life, bad testament."

"Good morning, John. I'm planting beans."

"God does not tear down men's homes, he ruins their minds and they tear them down themselves."

"From outside the dance-circle, you sing a lot of songs."

"God profits and the devil spends it."

"God made the world and said: He who has a brain will go on."

"God sees mountains and throws snow on them."

"God saves money and the devil spends them."

"Good accounts make good friends."

"God loves the thief, but not like the master of the house."

"He loaded them (dumped them) on the rooster."

"Happiness is the exercise of one's vital abilities along lines of excellence in a life that affords them scope"

"Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues."

"He has (even) the bird's milk."

"He rejoices at whatever he remembers."

"He was born without pants and is ashamed to be dressed."

"He licks, where he used to spit."

"Great birth is a very poor dish at table."

"Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom."

"He who becomes a sheep is eaten by the wolf."