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Proverbs starting with F

1: Facts speak louder than words.
expresses that:

2: Failure teaches success.
meaning that:

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

4: Fair without, foul within.
suppose:

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

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

7: Familiarity breeds contempt.
it means that:

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

9: Fault confessed is half redressed.
suggests that:

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

11: Fear lends wings
said to mean that:

12: Feast today and fast tomorrow.
advices:

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

14: Fine words butter no parsnips.
indicates that:

15: First catch your hare.
shows that:

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

17: first creep and then go
advices that:

18: First deserve and then desire.
means that:

19: First think, then speak.
advices that:

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

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

22: Fit like a glove.
expression empphasizes :

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

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

25: Fools and madmen speak the truth.
because:

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

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

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

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

30: Forbearance is no acquittance.
meaning that:

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

32: Forewarned is forearmed.
said for :

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

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

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

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

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

38: From bad to worse.
is used when:

39: From pillar to post.
implies: