A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

escape see LITTLE thieves are hanged, but great ones escape.
eternal see HOPE springs eternal.
Eve see when ADAM delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
even see (adjective) don’t get MAD, get even; never give a SUCKER an even break; (adverb) even a WORM will turn.
evensong see be the DAY weary or be the day long, at last it ringeth to evensong.
event see COMING events cast their shadows before; it is easy to be WISE after the event.
ever see NOTHING is for ever.
EVERY little helps
Cf. 1590 G. MEURIER Deviz Familiers A6 peu ayde, disgoit le formy, pissant en mer en plein midy, every little helps, said the ant, pissing into the sea at midday.

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  1602 P. GAWDY Letters (1906) 118 The wrenn sayde all helpte when she—in the sea. 1623 W. CAMDEN Remains concerning Britain (ed. 3) 268 Euery thing helpes, quoth the Wren when she pist i’ the sea. 1787 E. HAZARD in Collections of Massachusetts Hist. Society (1877) 5th Ser. II. 477 A guinea is a guinea, and every little helps. 1840 MARRYAT Poor Jack xiii. It’s a very old saying, that every little helps. .. Almost all the men were on the larboard side. 1988 J. MORTIMER Rumpole and Age of Miracles (1989) 48 ‘I’ll get him to make a few inquiries relative to the bird in question. Every little helps.’ "assistance; great and small
  

EVERY man for himself
See also the later expanded forms in the next two proverbs.

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  с 1386 CHAUCER Knight’s Tale 1.1182 At the kynges court, my brother, Ech man for hymself, ther is noon oother. 1478 J. WHETLEY Letter 20 May in Paston Letters (1976) II. 427 Your moder.. hath made her wyll, the wyche ye shall understond more when I com, for ther is every man for hym selff. 1678 J. RAY English Proverbs (ed. 2) (Scottish) 366 Every man for himself (quoth the Merteine). 1795 D. YANCEY Letter 6 June in Virginia Magazine of Hist. & Biography (1922) XXX. 224 The old adage might well be applied in many cases. Every man for himself. 1974 A. PRICE Other Paths to Glory II. vi. It was pretty much every man for himself. But I was hit quite early on. ■ self­preservation