Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Fortune is a giver and a taker.
Fortune is a woman; if you neglect her today
do not expect to regain her tomorrow.
Fortune is blind and makes blind.
Fortune is blind, but not invisible.
Fortune is blind.
Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he
has given.
Fortune is like a wall that falls on those who
lean on it.
Fortune is like glass.
Fortune is like price: if you can wait long
enough, the price will fall.
Fortune is like women: loves youth and is
fickle.
Fortune is made of glass.
Fortune is round; it makes one a king,
another a dunghill.
Fortune is variant.
Fortune is weary to carry one and the same
man always.
Fortune is with you for an hour, and against
you for ten.
Fortune knocks once at least at every man's
gate.
Fortune lost, nothing lost; courage lost,
much lost; honour lost, more lost; soul
lost, all lost.
Fortune makes friends; misfortune tries
them.
Fortune never comes with both hands full.
Fortune often knocks at the door, but the
fool does not invite her in.
Fortune rarely brings good or evil singly.
Fortune smiles on the brave, and frowns
upon the coward.
Fortune to one is mother, to another step-
mother.
Fortune wearies with carrying one and the
same man always.
Fortune will call at the smiling gate.
Fortune, and go to sleep.
Fortunes exist among leftovers.
Fortune's wheel is ever turning.
Fortune's wheel is never stopped.
Fortunes, heaven-born gifts.
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Foster a raven and it will peck out your
eyes.
Fou o coortesy, fou o craft.
Foul linen should be washed at home.
Foul water as soon as fair will quench hot
fire.
Foul water slockens fire.
Foul water will quench fire.
Fouls invent fashions and wise men follow
them.
Found a nice tree when your axe broken.
Four eyes see more than two.
Four horses cannot overtake the tongue.
Four things come not back -- the spoken
word, the sped arrow, the past life, and
the neglected opportunity.
Four things put a man beside himself--
women, tobacco, cards, and wine.
Four thousand throats may be cut in one
night by a running man.
Four walls make a man free.
Fourty Two is the answer.
Fowl cock en got nuh right in bulldog fight.
Fowls will not spare a cockroach that falls in
their midst.
Foxes come at last to the furrier's.
Foxes grieve over the death of rabbits.
Fox's broth, cold and scalding.
Frae saving comes having.
Fragments of fox fur, sewn together, will
make a robe.
Fraud and cunning are the weapons of the
weak.
Fraud lurks in loose generalities.
Free advice is seldom cheap.
Free ships, free goods.
Free vinegar is sweeter than honey.
Freedom and health, who has them is rich
and doesn't know it.
Freedom for the free and heaven for the
saved.
Freedom is a plateful of hard crusts.
Freedom is never given but taken.
Freedome is a fair thing.
Frequent washing makes not the crow
whiter.