A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

eaten see REVENGE is a dish that can be eaten cold.
eating see APPETITE comes with eating; the PROOF of the pudding is in the eating.
eavesdroppers see LISTENERS never hear any good of themselves.
egg see as good be an ADDLED egg as an idle bird; the same FIRE that melts the butter hardens the egg; you cannot make an OMELETTE without breaking eggs; there is REASON in the roasting of eggs; don’t TEACH your grandmother to suck eggs.
Don’t put all your EGGS in one basket
Don’t chance everything on a single venture, but spread your risk. To put all one’s eggs in one basket is commonly used as a metaphorical phrase.

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  1662 G. TORRIANO Italian Proverbial Phrases 125 To put all ones Eggs in a Paniard, viz. to hazard all in one bottom [ship]. 1710 S. PALMER Proverbs 344 Don’t venture all your Eggs in One Basket. 1894 ‘M. TWAIN’ Pudd’nhead Wilson in Century Mag. XLVII. VI. 817 Behold, the fool saith, ‘Put not all thine eggs in the one basket’— which is but a manner of saying, ‘Scatter your money and your attention’; but the wise man saith, ‘Put all your eggs in the one basket and—watch that basket.’ 1967 RIDOUT & WITTING English Proverbs Explained 46 Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. 2002 Washington Post 23 May E3 What part of ‘don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ isn’t clear? Putting all or most of your money into one stock is gambling, not investing. ■ prudence
  

eight see FALL down seven times, get up eight; SIX hours’ sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
elephant see with a SWEET tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair.
When ELEPHANTS fight, it is the grass that suffers
African proverb, meaning that the weak get hurt in conflicts between the powerful.

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  1936 New York Times 26 Mar. (online) As citizens of a country whose fate depends on the policies and changing moods of powerful neighbours, Belgians quote frequently these days a proverb learned in the Congo: ‘When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.’ 1986 New York Times 23 Nov. (online) ‘Angolans say “When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers,” ’ an aide worker here commented. 2003 Journal of Literacy Research Spring (online) ‘When elephants fight, only the grass gets trampled.’ This African proverb is used regularly to describe.. officials and leaders whose disputes and divisions end up hurting innocent.. people. ■ strength and weakness; violence