Fortune, seeing she could not make fools wise, she has made them fortunate.[La fortune, n’ayant peu faire les mal-habiles sages, elle les fait heureux.]
Fools make feasts and wise men eat ’em.
Fools and wise folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.
Faint heart never won fair lady.[translation by John Willis Clark]That a stout heart breaks bad luck.[translation by John Ormsby][Buen corazón quebranta mala ventura.]
Examine men’s ruling principles, even those of the wise, what kind of things they avoid, and what kind they pursue.[Τὰ ἡγεμονικὰ αὐτῶν διάβλεπε καὶ τοὺς φρονίμους, οἷα μὲν φεύγουσιν, οἷα δὲ διώκουσιν.]
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.[Tudo que acontece uma vez, pode nunca mais acontecer. Mas tudo que acontece duas vezes, acontecerá certamente uma terceira.]
Everyone has a skeleton in his closet, as the English say.[У каждого есть в душе свои skeletons, как говорят англичане.]
Every shuteye ain’t sleep and every goodbye ain’t gone.[Old folks say]
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.[translation by John Willis Clark]Often where there are pegs there are no flitches.[translation by John Ormsby][Que muchas veces donde hay estacas no hay tocinos.]
Even strength has to bow down to wisdom sometimes.
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy wealthy and wise.
Don’t stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.
