Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Example can be better than precept.
Example is better than law.
Example is better than precept.
Example is the greatest of all seducers.
Excellent people are honored wherever they
go.
Except for my father and my mother
everybody lies.
Except for the night, we could never know
the stars.
Except that which Sembele did in Lindanda.
(a task or thing too extra ordinary to
perform or be true)
Excess in anything becomes a vice.
Excess of delight palls the appetite.
Excess of obligations may lose a friend.
Excessive talk is sure to include errors.
Exchange is no robbery.
Excuses are always mixed with lies.
Excuses are like assholes, everyone has one,
and they all stink.
Exert effort, you shall be rewarded.
Exile is the brother of death.
Expect not a very covetous person to be very
honest for a long time. Experience keeps
a dear school, but fools will learn in nae
ither.
Expect not at another's hand what you can
do by your own.
Expect the worst from your enemy so that
you won't be disappointed.
Expect trust from a dog but not from a
woman.
Expecting something bigger, and we let go
what we already have.
Expense is bigger than income.
Experience costs blood.
Experience is a comb which fate gives to a
man when his hair is all gone.
Experience is a comb which nature gives to
men when they are bald.
Experience is a comb which nature gives to
men when they are bald. (-East Africa)
Experience is a dear school, but fools learn
in no other.
Experience is more important than theory.
Experience is not always the kindest of
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teachers, but it is surely the best.
Experience is the best teacher.
Experience is the comb that nature gives us
when we are bald.
Experience is the father of wisdom and
memory the mother.
Experience is the father of wisdom.
Experience is the mistress of fools.
Experience is the mother of knowledge.
Experience is the mother of science.
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
Experience is the teacher of jesters and the
intelligence of the wise.
Experience is what you get when you didn't
get what you wanted.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools
will learn in no other.
Experience keeps a dear school.
Experience may teach a fool.
Experience purchased by suffering teaches
wisdom.
Experience runs a valuable school, but fools
learn in no other.
Experience teaches fools.
Experience teaches.
Experience will show you; a Master can only
point the way.
Experience without learning is better than
learning without experience.
Experiences are the spectacles of intellect.
Experimenting is the great science.
Explaining something to an ignorant person
is harder than making a camel jump over
a ditch.
Explaining what is obscure by what is still
more obscure.
Express yourself earnestly, and you have no
reason for shame even if you lack talent.
Extol the virtue of water, but drink wine.
Extravagant offers are a kind of denial.
Extreme law, extreme injustice.
Extremes are dangerous. Facts are stubborn
things.
Eyes are afraid, but hands are doing the job.
Eyes are bigger than your belly.