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Proverbs starting with F

1: Fact is stranger than fiction
because:

2: Facts are stubborn things
meaning:

3: Facts speak louder than words.
expresses that:

4: Failure teaches success.
meaning that:

5: Faint heart never won fair lady.
meaning that:

6: Fair and softly goes far in a day.
meaning that:

7: Fair play is a jewel
suggests that:

8: Fair without, foul within.
suppose:

9: Faith will move mountains
meaning:

10: Fall seven times. Stand up eight.
means:

11: False friends are worse than open enemies.
suggests that:

12: Familiarity breeds contempt.
it means that:

13: Far from eye, far from heart.
states that:

14: Fault confessed is half redressed.
suggests that:

15: Faults are thick where love is thin.
suggests that:

16: Fear lends wings
said to mean that:

17: Fear the Greeks bearing gifts
meaning:

18: Feast today and fast tomorrow.
advices:

19: Feed a cold and starve a fever
suggests that:

20: Fields have eyes and walls have ears
suggests that:

21: Fight fire with fire
meaning that:

22: Finders keepers, losers weepers
suggests that:

23: Fine feathers make fine birds.
said to mean that:

24: Fine words butter no parsnips.
indicates that:

25: Fingers were made before forks.
expression:

26: Fire is a good servant but a bad master
denotes that:

27: First catch your hare.
states that:

28: First come, first served.
expression meaning that :

29: first creep and then go
advices that:

30: First deserve and then desire.
means that:

31: First impressions are the most lasting
said to mean that:

32: First things first
states that:

33: First think, then speak.
advices that:

34: First thoughts are best
suggests that:

35: Fish and visitors stink in three days.
suggests that:

36: Fish begins to stink at the head.
meaning that:

37: Fit like a glove.
expression empphasizes :

38: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
said to mean that:

39: Fool’s haste is no speed.
means that:

40: Fools and bairns should never see half done work.
meaning that:

41: Fools and madmen speak the truth.
because:

42: Fools build houses and wise men live in them
suggests that:

43: Fools grow without watering.
used to say that:

44: Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose.
said to mean that:

45: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
means that:

46: For the love of the game.
is said for:

47: Forbearance is no acquittance.
meaning that:

48: Forbidden fruit is the sweetest.
it is observed that:

49: Forewarned is forearmed.
said for :

50: Fortune favors the brave (or the bold).
states that:

51: Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.
suggests that:

52: Fortune knocks once at every man's door
suggests that:

53: Four eyes see better than two.
used to say that:

54: Freedom is not free
states that:

55: Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Effort is necessary to keep a friendship alive.
said to mean that:

56: From bad to worse.
is used when:

57: From pillar to post.
implies:

58: From shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves is only three generations
suggests that:

59: Full cap, steady hand
declares that: