Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Fall seven times, rise eight.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Fall seven times, stand up the eighth.
Fall sick, and you will see who is your
friend and who not.
Fall six times, rise seven
Fall six times, stand up seven.
Fallen blossom doesn't return to the branch.
Fallen blossoms do not return to branches; a
broken mirror does not again reflect.
Fallen leaves return to the root.
Falling hurts least those who fly low.
Falling in love is easy, staying in love is the
hustle.
Falling is easier than rising.
Falling teaches us to walk safely.
Falling with the door into the house.
False ambition serves the neck.
False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
False hope kills more readily than bitter
truth.
False in one respect, never trustworthy.
Falsehood is a nettle that stings those who
meddle with it.
Falsehood is the darkness of faith.
Falsehood is the Devil's daughter, and
speaks her father's tongue.
Falsehood never tires of going round about.
Falsehood travels and grows.
Falsehood, like a nettle, stings those who
meddle with it.
Falseness lasts an hour, and truth lasts till
the end of time.
Falseness often lurks beneath fair hair.
Falshood made never a fair Hinder-end.
Fame and repute follow a man to the door.
Fame is a magnifying glass.
Fame is longer than life.
Fame lives on after death.
Familiarity breeds contempt.
Familiarity breeds contempt; distance
breeds respect.
Familiarity is like the sea that kills the fisher-
man.
Famine hides under the granary.
Fancy flees before the wind.
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Fancy kills and cures.
Fancy kills and fancy cures.
Fancy passes beauty.
Fancy requires much, necessity but little.
Fancy surpasses beauty.
Fanned fires and forced love never did well
yet.
Far away fowls have fair feathers.
Far fetched and dear bought is meat for
ladies.
Far fowls have fair feathers.
Far from court, far from care.
Far from eye, far from heart.
Far from grave, no praying.
Far from Jupiter, far from his thunder.
Far from the eye, far from the heart.
Far from the eyes, far from the heart.
Far waters cannot quench near fires.
Farewell and be hanged; friends must part.
Farewell baskets, the vintage is ended.
Far-fetched and dear-bought is good for
ladies.
Farmers are people too.
Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no
deliverance; all must conform to its
whimsical.
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.
Fashious fools are easiest flisket.
Fast as the hare runs, the greyhound
outruns her, since he catches her.
Fast bind, fast find.
Fast ripe, fast rotten.
Faster than an arrow.
Faster than death.
Faster than eye blink.
Faster than lightning.
Faster than the wind.
Faster than thoughts.
Fat broth cannot be made of nothing.
Fat cats and thin birds can share a yard, but
thin cats and fat birds no way.
Fat fries and burns itself.
Fat geese don't fly far.
Fat head, less brains.
Fat hens lay few eggs.
Fat is not to be had without labour.
Fat pastures make fat venison.