Proverbs Beginning with F

1

Fact is stranger than fiction

reality

› 2

Facts are stubborn things

reality

› 3

Facts speak louder than words.

understanding

› 4

Failure teaches success.

failure

› 5

Faint heart never won fair lady.

courage

› 6

Fair and softly goes far in a day.

achievement

› 7

Fair play is a jewel

fair

› 8

Fair without, foul within.

evil

› 9

Faith will move mountains

believe

› 10

Fall seven times. Stand up eight.

persistence

› 11

False friends are worse than open enemies.

friendship

› 12

Familiarity breeds contempt.

familiarity

› 13

Far from eye, far from heart.

forgotten

› 14

Fault confessed is half redressed.

forgiveness

› 15

Faults are thick where love is thin.

love

› 16

Fear lends wings

fear

› 17

Fear the Greeks bearing gifts

trap

› 18

Feast today and fast tomorrow.

today

› 19

Feed a cold and starve a fever

health

› 20

Fields have eyes and walls have ears

caution

› 21

Fight fire with fire

fight

› 22

Finders keepers, losers weepers

luck

› 23

Fine feathers make fine birds.

beauty

› 24

Fine words butter no parsnips.

talking

› 25

Fingers were made before forks.

eating

› 26

Fire is a good servant but a bad master

danger

› 27

First catch your hare.

certainty

› 28

First come, first served.

order

› 29

first creep and then go

order

› 30

First deserve and then desire.

deserve

› 31

First impressions are the most lasting

opinion

› 32

First things first

priorities

› 33

First think, then speak.

think

› 34

First thoughts are best

thought

› 35

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

visit

› 36

Fish begins to stink at the head.

responsibility

› 37

Fit like a glove.

fit

› 38

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

mistake

› 39

Fools and bairns should never see half done work.

finish

› 40

Fools and madmen speak the truth.

truth

› 41

Fools build houses and wise men live in them

fool

› 42

Fools grow without watering.

fool

› 43

Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose.

fool

› 44

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

fool

› 45

Fool’s haste is no speed.

haste

› 46

For the love of the game.

pleasure

› 47

Forbearance is no acquittance.

forbearance

› 48

Forbidden fruit is the sweetest.

forbidden

› 49

Forewarned is forearmed.

warning

› 50

Fortune favors the brave (or the bold).

luck

› 51

Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.

wealth

› 52

Fortune knocks once at every man's door

fortune

› 53

Four eyes see better than two.

cooperation

› 54

Freedom is not free

freedom

› 55

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Effort is necessary to keep a friendship alive.

friendship

› 56

From bad to worse.

worsening

› 57

From pillar to post.

change

› 58

From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves is only three generations

family

› 59

Full cap, steady hand

caution

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