| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Example |
| | | A good example is the best sermon. | 1 |
| Admiral Byng was shot to encourage others. Voltaire. | 2 |
| Example does more than much teaching. German. | 3 |
| Examples of justice are more merciful than the unbounded exercise of pity. Machiavel. | 4 |
| Examples teach more than precepts. | 5 |
| Examples work stronger and quicker in the minds of men than precepts. Fielding. | 6 |
| Follow example: Literal: Recite according to the book. Chinese. | 7 |
| Follow example in drawing your calabash. Chinese. | 8 |
| Follow the good and learn to be so. Chinese. | 9 |
| Good example is half a sermon. German. | 10 |
| Ill examples are like contagious diseases. | 11 |
| One ill example spoils many good. | 12 |
| Profit by good example. | 13 |
| The example of good men is visible philosophy. | 14 |
| Unless parents set a good example to their children they will furnish a plain reason to be used by them against themselves. Euripides. | 15 |
| Where the dam leaps over, the kid follows. | 16 | | |
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