Great Throughts Treasury

"Eloquent silence is better than eloquent speech."

"Empty barrels make the most noise."

"Even a bear can be taught to dance."

"Even a poor man wants to live."

"Envy breeds hate."

"Even a shelled egg won't leap into your mouth."

"Even one hour of heaven is worthwhile."

"Even silence speaks."

"Even for bad luck one needs luck."

"Even the most expensive clock has no more than sixty minutes."

"Even though a cow has a long tongue, it can?t recite a blessing."

"Even the best swimmer can drown."

"Every ass likes to hear himself bray."

"Every day brings forth its own sorrows."

"Every heart has secrets."

"Every limb wants to speak but the tongue alone does the talking."

"Every man has his burden."

"Every man has a madness of his own."

"Every man is blind to his own faults."

"Every man has his own idiosyncrasies."

"Every mother thinks her child is beautiful."

"Every one fears a goat from in front, a horse from the rear and a fool on every side."

"Every pot finds its own lid."

"Every only daughter has her charms."

"Every town has its fool."

"Every way up has its way down."

"Everyone else has committed a crime (lit., a thief?s hat burns)."

"Everyone has his own burden."

"Every word in its place."

"Everyone knows where his shoe pinches."

"Fools and weeds grow without rain."

"Everything ends in weeping."

"Everything revolves around bread and death."

"Everything is good but only in its time."

"Excess is unhealthy."

"Evil tongues are silenced by the tinkle of coins in your pocket."

"False tears keep the true ones out of heaven."

"Fasting is easy with a chicken leg and a half-bottle of wine."

"Falsehood is common, truth uncommon."

"Fear God, but be wary of men."

"For a little love, you pay all your life."

"For a snake you should have no pity."

"For the disease of stubbornness there is no cure."

"Fools don?t have to be sown; they grow up by themselves."

"For a glass of milk you don't have to buy a whole cow."

"For a thief in a top hat, the hat doesn't burn."

"For as many years as he's walked on his feet, he should walk on his hands, and the rest of the time he should drag himself on his behind."

"For better, for worse."

"For compassion and for cowardice there is no remedy."

"For the sake of good relations one may even lie (but good relations must not lie.)"