Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Fighting is better than idleness.
Figs eaten by the child made the adults’
stomach churn. (Adults are troubled by
children’s bad deeds.)
Figs he calls figs, a spade a spade.
Figures don't lie, but sometimes liars figure.
Fill fow, and had fow, makes a starke man.
Fill in the eyes to a painted dragon.
Fill your basket one item at a time.
Fill your garners, harvest lasts not for ever.
Find a cruel man and you see a coward.
Find as much love as was given by your fa-
ther and mother many times.
Find words butter no parsnips.
Find you without an excuse, and find a hare
without a meuse.
Finders keepers, losers weepers.
Findings keepings.
Fine and fine make but a slender doublet.
Fine birds are commonly plucked.
Fine dressing is a foul house, swept before
the windows.
Fine feathers made before forks.
Fine feathers make find birds.
Fine linen often conceals scabby skin.
Fine words butter no parsnips.
Fine words do not produce food.
Fine words don't feed cats.
Fine words don't fill the belly.
Fine words without deeds go not far.
Fingal's sword never had to cut twice.
Finger stink you can't cut it trow it wey.
Fingers were made before forks.
Fingures can be used to do anything.
Finish what your start.
Fir and water are good servants, but bad
masters.
Fire and faggot are but sad reformers.
Fire and flax agree not.
Fire and gunpowder are not bedfellows.
Fire and gunpowder do not sleep together.
Fire and love do not say "Go to your work."
Fire and straw soon make a flame.
Fire and water are good servants but bad
masters.
Fire and water are gude servants but ill
maisters.
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Fire begins with sparks.
Fire could leave ashes behind.
Fire dies for lack of wood; if there's no
whispering, gossip stops.
Fire does not beget fire in the end it begets
ashes.
Fire does not burn in a jar.
Fire does not make fire, only ashes.
Fire drives the wasp out of its nest.
Fire has no brother.
Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.
Fire is a good servant but a poor master.
Fire is a good slave, but a bad master.
Fire is always a good maid, but a bad boss.
Fire is good for the farcy.
Fire is love and water sorrow.
Fire is more bearable than disgrace.
Fire is never a gentle master.
Fire is next akin to smoke.
Fire is not quenched with fire.
Fire is the test of gold.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity of
friendship.
Fire makes mud hard and gold melt.
Fire purges everything.
Fire starts with sparks.
Fire that is surrounded by elders cannot
burn you.
Fire will burn itself out if it did not find
anything to burn.
Fire will not put out fire. Anger is not
appeased by anger.
Fire with seasoned wood and work with
flexible people are easy.
Fire, fire, many pots on. and one pea in them
all.
Fire, fire's better than rice.
Fire, the sea, and woman; these are three ills.
Fire, water, and government know nothing
of mercy.
Fireflies shine only when in motion.
Firelight will not let you read fine stories,
but it's warm and won't let you see the
dust on the floor.