Proverbs starting with "F"

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• F1 The FACE is the index of the heart (mind)
• F2 A fair FACE and a foul bargain
• F3 Fair FACE foul heart
• F4 A fair FACE is half a portion
• F5 A fair FACE must have good conditions
• F6 A good FACE needs no band and a bad one deserves none
• F7 A good FACE needs no paint
• F8 He has a brazen FACE (a face of brass)
• F9 He has broken his FACE on the ambry¹
• F10 He has one FACE to God and another to the devil
• F11 I think his FACE is made of a fiddle, everyone that looks on him loves him
• F12 An ingenuous FACE is a good letter of recommendation
• F13 They love the FACE, not the grace
• F14 Thy FACE is shorn against the wool
• F15 Till he grows black in the FACE
• F16 To laugh (smile) in one's FACE and cut one's throat
• F17 To set a good FACE on the matter (on a bad matter)
• F18 To set one's FACE like a flint
• F19 To wash one's FACE in an ale clout
• F20 He carries (bears) two FACES under one hood
• F21 They wash their FACES with fair water and wipe them with a dishclout
• F22 He that would (must) eat a buttered FAGOT, let him go to Northampton
• F23 He is good that FAILED never
• F24 FAIR is not fair but that which pleases
• F25 Buy at a FAIR but sell at home
• F26 The FAIR lasts (lasts not) all the year
• F27 FAIR and far off
• F28 FAIR and foolish, black and proud, long and lazy, little and loud
• F29 FAIR without but foul within
• F30 FAITH sees by the ears
• F31 Grecian FAITH
• F32 He pins his FAITH on another man's sleeve
• F33 No FAITH with heretics
• F34 There is no FAITH in man
• F35 As gentle as a FALCON
• F36 Long ere you cut FALKLAND WOOD with a penknife
• F37 One may sooner FALL than rise
• F38 He that FALLS today may be up again tomorrow
• F39 He that is FALLEN cannot help him that is down
• F40 The FALLING-OUT of lovers is a renewing of love
• F41 There is FALSEHOOD (flattery) in fellowship
• F42 There is FALSEHOOD in packing
• F43 Common FAME¹ is seldom to blame
• F44 FAME (Report) is a liar
• F45 FAME is a magnifying glass
• F46 FAME is but the breath of the people and that often unwholesome
• F47 Too much FAMILIARITY breeds contempt
• F48 He that has had one of his FAMILY hanged may not say to his neighbor hang up his fish
• F49 It is a poor FAMILY (kin) which has neither a whore nor a thief in it
• F50 After a FAMINE in the stall comes a famine in the hall
• F51 A FAMINE in England begins at the horse manger
• F52 As fit as a FAN for a forehorse
• F53 FANCY¹ is a fool
• F54 FANCY may bolt¹ bran and think it flour
• F55 FANCY¹ surpasses (passes) beauty
• F56 Hard FARE makes hungry bellies (stomachs)
• F57 You see your FARE (dinner)
• F58 Afraid of FAR ENOUGH
• F59 FAREWELL unkissed
• F60 The longer we live the more FARLIES¹ we see
• F61 They that hold the greatest FARMS pay the least rent
• F62 To feed like a FARMER
• F63 As soon may you get a FART of a dead man (horse)
• F64 Cloak a FART with a cough
• F65 Everyone thinks his own FART smells sweet
• F66 He makes a very FART a thunderbolt
• F67 He that is afraid of every FART must go far to piss
• F68 He that is feared of a FART should never hear thunder
• F69 He thinks his FART as sweet as musk
• F70 There came never a large FART out of a wren's ass
• F71 Not worth a FARTHING
• F72 Four FARTHINGS and a thimble make a tailor's pocket jingle
• F73 Send FARTHINGALES (Verdingales) to Broadgates in Oxford
• F74 It is the FASHION in Rome to go barefoot that wants shoes
• F75 The plain FASHION is best
• F76 For FASHION's sake, as dogs go to the market (to church)
• F77 Over FAST (sicker) over loose
• F78 FAST AND LOOSE is no possession
• F79 The FAT (All the fat) is in the fire
• F80 To lick the FAT from one's beard (lips)
• F81 As sure (firm) as FATE
• F82 FATE leads the willing but drives the stubborn
• F83 It is impossible to avoid (undo) FATE (destiny)
• F84 The FATHER to the bough, the son to the plow
• F85 Give (Box) it about, it will come to my FATHER at last
• F86 He takes not after the FATHER
• F87 He whose FATHER is judge goes safe to his trial
• F88 I would cheat my own FATHER at cards
• F89 One FATHER is enough to govern (maintain) one hundred sons but not a hundred sons one father
• F90 One FATHER is more than a hundred schoolmasters
• F91 A sparing FATHER and a spending (prodigal) son
• F92 Such a (Like) FATHER such a (like) son
• F93 Whatsoever was the FATHER of a disease an ill diet was the mother
• F94 You teach your FATHER to get children
• F95 Your FATHER was no glazier
• F96 He is gone to seek his FATHER's sword
• F97 You are your FATHER's own son.
• F98 The FATHERS have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge
• F99 Our FATHERS which were wondrous wise did wash their throats before they washed their eyes
• F100 Our FATHERS won Boulogne, who never came within the report of the cannon
• F101 Everyone puts his FAULT on the times
• F102 The FAULT is as great as he that is faulty
• F103 A FAULT is sooner found than mended
• F104 A FAULT once excused (denied) is twice committed
• F105 A FAULT wilfully committed deserves no pardon
• F106 For FAULT (want) of a better
• F107 He finds FAULT with others and does worse himself (He that will blame another must be blameless himself)
• F108 He has but one FAULT, he is nought
• F109 He is neither absent without FAULT nor present without excuse
• F110 He may find FAULT that cannot amend
• F111 He that commits a FAULT thinks everyone speaks of it
• F112 He that is foolish in the FAULT let him be wise in the punishment
• F113 In every FAULT there is folly
• F114 Like FAULT like punishment
• F115 A little FAULT may be pardoned
• F116 Where no FAULT is there needs no pardon
• F117 Who is in FAULT (guilty) suspects everybody
• F118 You find FAULT with a fat goose
• F119 You would find FAULT if you knew how
• F120 Everyone's FAULTS are not written in their fore-heads
• F121 The first FAULTS are theirs that commit them, the second theirs that permit them
• F122 He that corrects not small FAULTS cannot control great ones
• F123 Wink at small FAULTS
• F124 You would spy FAULTS if your eyes were out
• F125 The FAULTY stands on his guard
• F126 FAVOR¹ will as surely perish as life
• F127 Without FAVOR none will know you and with it you will not know yourself
• F128 You shall have as much FAVOR as at Billingsgate for a box on the ear
• F129 To FAZARTS hard hazards are death ere they come there
• F130 All FEAR is bondage
• F131 Climb not too high for FEAR of falling
• F132 FEAR and shame much sin does tame
• F133 FEAR gives wings
• F134 FEAR has a quick ear
• F135 FEAR (Suspicion) is one part of prudence
• F136 FEAR keeps and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner
• F137 FEAR, the beadle of the law
• F138 Foolish FEAR doubles danger
• F139 He that lives ill, FEAR follows him
• F140 It comes with a FEAR
• F141 Not too fast for FEAR of falling (breaking your shins)
• F142 FEARS are divided in the midst
• F143 After a FEAST one scratches his head
• F144 He that is angry at a FEAST is rude
• F145 No FEAST to¹ a miser's
• F146 A Yule FEAST may be quit at Pasch¹
• F147 He that borrows and bigs,¹ makes FEASTS and thigs,² drinks and is not dry, these three are not thrifty
• F148 FEASTING is the physician's harvest
• F149 Merry is the FEAST-MAKING (company) till we come to the reckoning
• F150 As light as a FEATHER
• F151 FEATHER by feather the goose is plucked
• F152 A FEATHER in hand is better than a bird in the air
• F153 The FEATHER makes not the bird
• F154 A FEATHER of the same wing
• F155 He is like a FEATHER on a hill
• F156 He is the best FEATHER of our wing
• F157 He put a fine FEATHER in his cap
• F158 It is the last FEATHER that breaks the horse's back
• F159 She cannot bear a FEATHER but she must pant
• F160 To cut a FEATHER
• F161 To set this FEATHER to my arrow
• F162 As wavering as FEATHERS in the wind
• F163 Fair (Fine) FEATHERS make fair fowls (fine birds)
• F164 He would fain fly (flee) but he wants FEATHERS
• F165 Let not him that fears FEATHERS come among wild fowl
• F166 To be shot with one's own FEATHERS
• F167 FEBRUARY fill-dike be it black or be it white, but if it be white it's the better to like
• F168 FEBRUARY (Soulgrove) is seldom warm
• F169 FEBRUARY makes a bridge and March breaks it
• F170 Reckon right and FEBRUARY has one and thirty days
• F171 FEBRUEER doth cut and shear
• F172 A lean FEE is a fit reward for a lazy clerk
• F173 What recks¹ of the FEED² when the friendship dow³ not?
• F174 Better FED than taught
• F175 FEELING has no fellow
• F176 The greatest FELICITY is never to be born
• F177 Ask my FELLOW (companion) if I be a thief
• F178 A merry FELLOW for all companies
• F179 A pretty FELLOW to make an axletree for an oven
• F180 A white-livered FELLOW
• F181 You are a pretty FELLOW to ride a goose a gallop
• F182 All FELLOWS at football
• F183 All FELLOWS, Jock and the laird
• F184 He that has a FELLOW RULER has an overuler
• F185 No FENCE against a flail
• F186 There's no FENCE against ill fortune
• F187 A FENCER has one trick in his budget more than ever he taught his scholar (A fencer reserves his masterpiece)
• F188 To sell one (feed on) FENNEL
• F189 When FERN grows red then milk is good with bread
• F190 When the FERN is as high as a ladle you may sleep as long as you are able
• F191 When the FERN is as high as a spoon you may sleep an hour at noon
• F192 No FESTIVAL unless there be some fighting
• F193 No FESTIVAL unless there be some fighting
• F194 He has it for FETCHING
• F195 It is better to feed a FEVER than weakness
• F196 The worst FEVER is that of the tongue
• F197 To be sick of the FEVER-LURDEN¹
• F198 FEW are they whom fair-minded Jove loves
• F199 FEW take wives for God's sake or for fair looks
• F200 I saw FEW die of hunger, of eating much a hundred thousand
• F201 Put that in the next FEW
• F202 As fit (fine) as a FIDDLE
• F203 He has got the FIDDLE but not the stick
• F204 FIDDLER's fare, meat, drink, and money
• F205 To give one a FIDDLER's fee
• F206 FIDDLERS, dogs, and flies (flatterers) come to feasts uncalled
• F207 A hard-fought FIELD where no man escapes un-killed
• F208 He is going into the pea FIELD
• F209 FIELDS have eyes and woods have ears
• F210 A FIG for him (it)
• F211 Not worth a FIG
• F212 Provide a FIG for thy friend and a peach for thy enemy
• F213 To give one a FIG
• F214 FIGS after peace (Pasch¹)
• F215 To have one's FILL
• F216 FILL what you will and drink what you fill
• F217 FILL FULL and had full makes a stark¹ man
• F218 The FILTH under the white snow the sun discovers
• F219 To the FILTHY all things taste filthy
• F220 He will neither FIND nor grind
• F221 If you will FIND I will grind
• F222 He FINDS that seeks
• F223 Who FINDS himself well let him not stir
• F224 Here I FOUND you and here (As I found you) I leave you
• F225 Better FINGER off than always aching
• F226 FINGER in dish finger in pouch
• F227 I love his little FINGER more than thy whole body
• F228 To have a FINGER (hand) in the pie (matter)
• F229 To put FINGER in the eye
• F230 To put one's FINGER in the fire
• F231 To thrust away with the little FINGER what one pulls back with the whole hand
• F232 To wind one about one's FINGER
• F233 When he should work, each FINGER is a thumb
• F234 With a wet FINGER
• F235 FINGERS were made before forks and hands before knives
• F236 His FINGERS are lime twigs
• F237 His FINGERS itch to be at it
• F238 I will not foul my FINGERS with him
• F239 Lay thy FINGERS on thy lips
• F240 To burn one's FINGERS
• F241 To have one's FINGERS (hands) in mortar
• F242 To let it slip (drop) through one's FINGERS
• F243 To look through one's FINGERS
• F244 I sucked not this out of my FINGERS' ends
• F245 To have it at his FINGERS' ends
• F246 As contrary as FIRE and water
• F247 As hot as FIRE
• F248 As red (bright) as FIRE
• F249 Better a wee (little) FIRE to warm us than a mickle (great) fire to burn us
• F250 Cut not the FIRE with a sword
• F251 Do not blow the FIRE (coal) thou wouldst quench
• F252 A fair FIRE makes a roomy flet¹
• F253 FIRE and water are good servants but bad (ill) masters
• F254 FIRE and water have no mercy
• F255 FIRE cannot be hidden in flax (straw)
• F256 FIRE descends not
• F257 FIRE divided burns with less force
• F258 FIRE is as hurtful as healthful
• F259 FIRE is good for the farcy¹
• F260 FIRE is love, and water sorrow
• F261 The FIRE is never without heat
• F262 FIRE of flax, love of a quean, wind from the tail, all is one
• F263 FIRE, quoth the fox when he pissed on the ice
• F264 FIRE raked up in ashes keeps its heat a long time
• F265 FIRE that's closest kept burns most of all
• F266 A good FIRE is the best household stuff
• F267 He bears (carries) FIRE in one hand and water in the other
• F268 He is FIRE and tow (flax)
• F269 He that can make a FIRE well can end a quarrel
• F270 He that makes a FIRE of straw has store of smoke and nothing else
• F271 I had rather ask of my FIRE brown bread than borrow of my neighbor white
• F272 It is a dangerous FIRE begins in the bedstraw
• F273 Kindle not a FIRE that cannot be extinguished
• F274 A little FIRE burns up a great deal of corn
• F275 Make no FIRE, raise no smoke
• F276 No FIRE without fuel
• F277 One FIRE (heat) drives out another
• F278 Put not FIRE to tow (flax)
• F279 The same FIRE which purifies gold burns straw
• F280 Soft FIRE makes sweet malt
• F281 That FIRE which lights us at a distance will burn us when near
• F282 There is no FIRE without some smoke
• F283 To come to fetch FIRE
• F284 To force FIRE from snow
• F285 To go through FIRE and water
• F286 To play with FIRE
• F287 To quench FIRE with oil
• F288 To weigh the FIRE and measure the wind
• F289 Well may he smell FIRE whose gown burns
• F290 Well to work and make a FIRE, it does care and skill require
• F291 What he gets he gets out of the FIRE
• F292 Whose FIRE smokes not?
• F293 You cannot make the FIRE so low but it will get out
• F294 As good do it at FIRST as at last
• F295 I am not the FIRST and shall not be the last
• F296 On the FIRST of November, if the weather holds clear, an end of wheat-sowing do make for this year
• F297 Win at FIRST and lose at last
• F298 All FISH are not caught with flies
• F299 As drunk as a FISH
• F300 As mute as a FISH
• F301 As whole as a FISH
• F302 The best FISH swim near the bottom
• F303 Better are small FISH than an empty dish
• F304 A FISH begins first to smell at the head
• F305 FISH bred up in dirty pools will stink of mud
• F306 The FISH follow the hook (bait)
• F307 FISH is cast away that is cast into dry pools
• F308 FISH mars the water and flesh amends it
• F309 FISH must swim thrice (twice)
• F310 Fresh FISH and newcome guests smell by that time they be three days old
• F311 The great FISH eat the small
• F312 He angles for the FISH already caught
• F313 I have other FISH to fry
• F314 I will not make FISH of one and flesh of another
• F315 If you swear you'll catch no FISH
• F316 It is a silly FISH that is caught twice with the same bait (The fish once caught bewares the hook)
• F317 It is good FISH, if it were but caught
• F318 Like a FISH out of water
• F319 Neither FISH nor flesh nor good red herring
• F320 Of all the FISH in the sea, herring is the king
• F321 Old FISH, old oil, and an old friend are the best
• F322 Some FISH some frogs
• F323 Teach FISH to swim
• F324 That FISH will soon be caught that nibbles at every hook (bait)
• F325 To drink like a FISH
• F326 To find FISH on one's fingers
• F327 To love it no more than (as well as) a FISH loves water
• F328 To swim like a FISH (duck)
• F329 Venture a small FISH to catch a great one (a salmon)
• F330 When the FISH is caught the net is laid aside
• F331 Who sleeps catches no FISH
• F332 The FISHER stricken will be wise
• F333 He is a fond FISHER that angles for a frog
• F334 It is good FISHING in troubled waters
• F335 It is ill FISHING (Fish not) before the net
• F336 There is no FISHING to¹ the sea nor service to¹ the king
• F337 Go early to the FISH MARKET and late to the butchery
• F338 To offer his FIST and show a fair pair of heels
• F339 By FITS and girds, as an ague takes a goose
• F340 By FITS and girds, as an ague takes a goose
• F341 As fine as FIVEPENCE
• F342 Like FLANDERS LANDSCAPES (Flanders pieces), that look fair at a distance but coarser near at hand
• F343 A FLANDERS RECKONING
• F344 He gave him a FLAP with a foxtail
• F345 That is FLAT
• F346 A FLATTERER's throat is an open sepulcher
• F347 FLATTERERS look like friends, as wolves like dogs
• F348 When FLATTERERS meet the devil goes to dinner
• F349 FLATTERY gets friends
• F350 As flat as a FLAWN
• F351 Keep FLAX from fire and youth from gaming
• F352 He is so FLAYED he will never lie where he is slain
• F353 Not worth a FLEA
• F354 To send one (To go) away with a FLEA in his ear
• F355 It is but a FLEABITING
• F356 It is better to give the FLEECE than the sheep
• F357 Will you have both FLEECE and fell?
• F358 When the black FLEET of Norway is come and gone England build houses of lime and stone, for after wars you shall have none
• F359 All FLESH is grass
• F360 All FLESH is not venison
• F361 As small as FLESH to pot
• F362 FLESH but¹ bread makes maids ill hued
• F363 FLESH is frail
• F364 FLESH never stands so high but a dog will venture his legs
• F365 It will not out of the FLESH that is bred in the bone
• F366 My own FLESH and blood
• F367 To be FLESH and blood as others are
• F368 The worst FLESH in the world is the flesh of man
• F369 Young FLESH and old fish are best
• F370 He mends as the FLETCHER¹ does his bolt
• F371 In the coldest FLINT there is hot fire
• F372 To break a FLINT (blade) on a feather bed
• F373 To flay (skin) a FLINT
• F374 Out of two FLINTS smitten together there comes out fire
• F375 To fetch a FLITCH of bacon from Dunmow¹
• F376 The FLOCK follows the bellwether
• F377 It is a silly (sorry) FLOCK where the ewe bears the bell
• F378 After a FLOOD (ebb) there comes an ebb (flood)
• F379 An April FLOOD carries away the frog and her brood
• F380 There is not so great a FLOOD but there is as low an ebb
• F381 High FLOODS (Low ebbs) have low ebbs (high floods)
• F382 As flat as a FLOUNDER
• F383 All FLOUR has its bran
• F384 A FLOWER among thorns sends forth a very sweet smell
• F385 The FLOWER of the frying pan
• F386 It fades (withers) like a FLOWER
• F387 It is the fairest (finest) FLOWER in his garland (garden)
• F388 One FLOWER makes no garland
• F389 As fresh as FLOWERS in May
• F390 As welcome as FLOWERS in May
• F391 The fairest FLOWERS (freshest colors) soonest fade
• F392 As light as a FLY
• F393 The FLY has her spleen and the ant her gall
• F394 The FLY (moth) that plays too long in the candle singes its wings at last
• F395 He capers like a FLY in a tarbox
• F396 Not worth a FLY
• F397 One cannot catch a FLY when he will
• F398 To make of a FLY an elephant
• F399 You must lose a FLY to catch a trout
• F400 Dead FLIES corrupt the most precious ointments
• F401 The FLIES go to lean horses
• F402 Hungry FLIES bite (A hungry louse bites) sore
• F403 More FLIES are taken with a drop of honey than a tun of vinegar
• F404 To kill two FLIES with one flap
• F405 You hunt after FLIES
• F406 If you must FLY, fly well
• F407 It is no FLYING without wings
• F408 How can the FOAL amble when the horse and mare trot?
• F409 As good a FOE (an ill) that hurts not as a friend (a good) that helps not
• F410 It is better to have an open FOE than a dissembling friend
• F411 No FOE to¹ a flatterer
• F412 Thou shouldst not tell thy FOE when thy foot sleeps
• F413 Far FOLK fare best
• F414 FOLK call on the horse that will carry always
• F415 Misterful¹ FOLK must not be menseful²
• F416 Poor FOLK fare the best
• F417 Do, jeer poor FOLKS, and see how 'twill thrive
• F418 Dumb FOLKS get no lands
• F419 Fat FOLKS are faithful (good-natured)
• F420 Idle FOLKS have the most labor (Idle people take the most pains)
• F421 Idle FOLKS lack no excuses
• F422 Little FOLKS are fond of talking about what great folks do
• F423 Poor FOLKS are glad of pottage (porridge)
• F424 Snotty FOLKS are sweet (wise) but slavering folks are weet¹ (kiss sweet)
• F425 Threatened FOLKS (men) live long
• F426 To fine FOLKS a little ill finely wrapped
• F427 To fine FOLKS a little ill finely wrapped
• F428 To tell nobody but FOLKS
• F429 Warned FOLKS may live
• F430 When FOLKS grow old they are not set by
• F431 FOLLY grows (Fools grow) without watering
• F432 FOLLY is a bonny dog
• F433 FOLLY it is to spurn (kick) against a prick
• F434 If FOLLY were grief every house would weep
• F435 It is FOLLY to lose the flesh for the bones
• F436 It is FOLLY to strew roses amongst swine (hogs)
• F437 No FOLLY to¹ being in love
• F438 Happy is he who knows his FOLLIES in his youth
• F439 Short FOLLIES are the best
• F440 He is doubly fond¹ that justifies his FONDNESS
• F441 More die by FOOD than famine
• F442 Answer a FOOL according to his folly
• F443 As fat as a FOOL
• F444 As glad as a FOOL of a fair day
• F445 As the FOOL thinks the bell clinks
• F446 Better be a FOOL than a knave
• F447 Bray a FOOL in a mortar, you cannot make him leave his folly
• F448 An enterprising FOOL needs little wit
• F449 Even a FOOL sometimes speaks a wise word (to the purpose)
• F450 Every FOOL is a fiddle to the company
• F451 Everyone has a FOOL in his sleeve
• F452 A FOOL and his money are soon parted
• F453 A FOOL asks much but he is a greater fool that gives it
• F454 A FOOL at forty is a fool indeed
• F455 The FOOL begins but never ends a business
• F456 A FOOL believes everything
• F457 A FOOL brooks any disgrace
• F458 A FOOL by nature and wise in writing
• F459 A FOOL cannot speak unlike himself
• F460 A FOOL comes home as wise as he went
• F461 A FOOL is better than an obstinate man
• F462 A FOOL is ever laughing
• F463 A FOOL is fulsome
• F464 A FOOL is he that has his choice and chooses the worst
• F465 A FOOL is known by much babbling
• F466 The FOOL is most fusty (absurd) when he is least foolish
• F467 A FOOL knows more in his own house than a wise man in another's
• F468 A FOOL may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years
• F469 A FOOL may sometimes give a wise man counsel
• F470 A FOOL may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot get out
• F471 A FOOL oft finds himself short of his reckonings
• F472 A FOOL oft puts his finger in a hole
• F473 A FOOL on a bridge sounds like a drum
• F474 A FOOL when he has spoken has done all
• F475 A FOOL will not be foiled
• F476 A FOOL will not give (leave, part with) his bauble for the Tower of London
• F477 Forbid a FOOL a thing and that he will do
• F478 He had been wiser if he had not been a FOOL
• F479 He is a FOOL that cuts himself with his own knife
• F480 He is a FOOL that forgets himself
• F481 He is a FOOL that is not melancholy once a day
• F482 He is a FOOL that makes a wedge (mallet) of his fist
• F483 He is a FOOL that makes his physician his heir
• F484 He is a FOOL that thinks not that another thinks
• F485 He is more FOOL that demands sense of a fool
• F486 He is not the FOOL that the fool is but he that with the fool deals
• F487 He should be called a FOOL to his face that being well does quit his place (put himself into danger)
• F488 He that sends a FOOL expects one
• F489 He that sends a FOOL means to follow him
• F490 He that teaches himself has a FOOL to his master
• F491 I am a FOOL, I love anything that is good
• F492 If I am a FOOL put you your finger in my mouth
• F493 If you play the FOOL stay for a fellow
• F494 It is better to marry a quiet FOOL than a witty scold
• F495 Leave a FOOL alone and he will bethink himself what he has to do
• F496 Let him be begged for a FOOL
• F497 Let not one FOOL mock another
• F498 More FOOL than fiddler
• F499 None is a FOOL always, everyone sometimes
• F500 None is so wise but the FOOL overtakes him
• F501 One FOOL makes a hundred (many)
• F502 Play with a FOOL at home and he will play with you in the market
• F503 Send a FOOL to the market and a fool he will return again
• F504 Set a FOOL to roast eggs and a wise man to eat them
• F505 Set a FOOL upon the bench and he will play with his feet or sing
• F506 There is no FOOL to¹ the old fool
• F507 To bring a FOOL to bed
• F508 To cough one a FOOL (daw, mome¹)
• F509 To dote more on it than a FOOL on his bauble
• F510 We must answer a FOOL with silence
• F511 What is a FOOL without a bauble?
• F512 What the FOOL does in the end the wise man does in the beginning
• F513 Who is born a FOOL is never cured
• F514 You have not a FOOL in hand
• F515 A FOOL's bolt is soon shot
• F516 A FOOL's bolt may sometimes hit the mark (white)
• F517 A FOOL's handsel is lucky
• F518 FOOL's haste is no speed
• F519 A FOOL's head of your own
• F520 The FOOL's tears are not to be trusted
• F521 A FOOL's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat
• F522 I will not dance to every FOOL's pipe
• F523 To bring one into a FOOL's paradise
• F524 To deal FOOL's dole
• F525 All FOOLS are sots but all sots are not fools
• F526 Among twenty-four FOOLS not one wise man
• F527 FOOLS and conceited men (quarrelers) make lawyers rich
• F528 FOOLS and little dogs (Fools' baubles) are ladies' playfellows
• F529 FOOLS are fain of flitting
• F530 FOOLS are fain of nothing (right noght)
• F531 FOOLS are wise as long as silent
• F532 FOOLS bite one another but wise men agree together
• F533 FOOLS build houses and wise men buy them
• F534 FOOLS give to please all but their own
• F535 FOOLS had never less wit in a year
• F536 FOOLS have fortune (are fortunate)
• F537 FOOLS have wit enough to come in out of the rain
• F538 FOOLS lade the water and wise men catch the fish
• F539 FOOLS live poor to die rich
• F540 FOOLS make feasts and wise men eat them
• F541 FOOLS refuse favors
• F542 FOOLS set far (long) trysts
• F543 FOOLS set stools for wise men (folks) to stumble at (to break their shins)
• F544 FOOLS should have no chapping sticks¹
• F545 FOOLS tie knots and wise men loose them
• F546 FOOLS will be meddling
• F547 FOOLS will still be fools
• F548 If all FOOLS had (were to wear) baubles we should want fuel (fuel would be dear)
• F549 If all FOOLS wore white caps we should seem a flock of geese
• F550 If FOOLS should not FOOL it they shall lose their season
• F551 If FOOLS went not to market bad ware would not be sold
• F552 Lend and lose, so play FOOLS
• F553 No small FOOLS have committed this fault
• F554 There two FOOLS met
• F555 Two FOOLS in a house are too many
• F556 We are FOOLS one to another
• F557 Who has neither FOOLS nor beggars nor whores among his kindred was born of a stroke of thunder
• F558 No FOOLERY to¹ falling-out
• F559 The least FOOLISH is wise
• F560 As softly as FOOT can fall
• F561 Better a bare FOOT than no foot at all (none)
• F562 Do not make the FOOT the head
• F563 The FOOT on the cradle and the hand on the distaff is the sign of a good housewife
• F564 A foul FOOT makes a full wame¹
• F565 A going (walking) FOOT is aye getting, if it were but a thorn
• F566 He that has one FOOT in the straw (a bawdy-house) has another in the spittle (hospital)
• F567 Measure yourself (not another) by your own FOOT
• F568 One FOOT is better than two crutches (stilts)
• F569 To have one FOOT in Charon's boat
• F570 To set the best (better) FOOT (leg) forward (before)
• F571 To take one FOOT out of the mire and put in the other
• F572 To thrust one's FOOT under another man's table
• F573 When one treads upon thee draw thy FOOT to thee
• F574 All FEET tread not in one shoe
• F575 Better the FEET slip than the tongue
• F576 Dry FEET, warm head bring safe to bed
• F577 He thinks his FEET be where his head shall never come
• F578 His FEET that are accustomed to wander cannot stand still
• F579 Keep thy FEET dry, thy mouth moist
• F579a To be cold on one's FEET
• F580 You have o'er foul FEET to come so far ben¹
• F581 He will not come within forty FOOT of him
• F582 Six FEET of earth make all men equal
• F583 The nimblest FOOTMAN is a false tale
• F584 FORBEARANCE (Omittance, Sufferance) is no quittance (acquittance)
• F585 What is FORBIDDEN (baneful) is desired
• F586 There is a great FORCE hidden in a sweet command
• F587 Ruse¹ the FORD as you find it
• F588 FORECAST is better than work-hard (as good as work)
• F589 He has a fair FOREHEAD to graft on
• F590 In the FOREHEAD and in the eye the lecture of the heart (mind) doth lie
• F591 That which one most FOREHETS¹ soonest comes to pass
• F592 The longer FORENOON the shorter afternoon
• F593 Beware of the FORE PART of a woman, the hind part of a mule, and all sides of a priest (monk)
• F594 She lies backward and lets out her FOREROOMS
• F595 One good FOREWIT is worth two afterwits
• F596 Long absent soon FORGOTTEN
• F597 FORGIVE and forget
• F598 Better to have good FORTUNE than be a rich man's child
• F599 FORTUNE can take from us nothing but what she gave us (our goods but not our virtue)
• F600 FORTUNE favors fools
• F601 FORTUNE favors the bold (hardy, valiant)
• F602 FORTUNE hates the slothful
• F603 FORTUNE helps him that's willing to help himself
• F604 FORTUNE (Justice) is blind
• F605 FORTUNE (Woman) is constant only in inconstancy
• F606 FORTUNE is fickle
• F607 FORTUNE is made of glass
• F608 FORTUNE knocks once at least at every man's door
• F609 FORTUNE to one is mother, to another is step-mother
• F610 Great FORTUNE brings with it great misfortune
• F611 He dances well to whom FORTUNE pipes
• F612 He that has no ill FORTUNE is troubled with good
• F613 If FORTUNE favor I may have her, for I go about her; if fortune fail you may kiss her tail and go without her
• F614 If FORTUNE me torments yet hope does me content
• F615 When FORTUNE smiles upon thee take the advantage of it
• F616 When ill FORTUNE lies asleep let none awake her
• F617 FORTUNE's wheel is ever turning
• F618 Farewell (Gramercy) FORTY PENCE, Jack Noble is dead
• F619 Be sure to build on a good FOUNDATION
• F620 Count not FOUR except you have them in a wallet (bag)
• F621 FOUR make up a mess
• F622 He that has but FOUR and spends five has no need of a purse
• F623 As like as FOURPENCE to a groat¹
• F624 As glad as a FOWL of a fair day
• F625 Far FOWLS have fair feathers
• F626 The FOWLER is caught (taken) in his own net (snare)
• F627 As long runs the FOX as he feet has
• F628 As rank as a FOX
• F629 As wily (crafty) as a FOX
• F630 Either a FOX (hare) or a fern bush (fernbrake)
• F631 Every FOX must pay his own skin to the flayer
• F632 The FOX fares best (well) when he is cursed (banned)
• F633 The FOX is known by his bush (tail)
• F634 The FOX is taken when he comes to take
• F634a The FOX is the finder
• F635 The FOX kills the lambs and the hounds the old sheep
• F636 The FOX knows many tricks but the hedgehog one great one
• F637 The FOX knows much but more he that catches him
• F638 The FOX may grow gray but never good
• F639 The FOX (wolf) preys farthest from his hole (den)
• F640 The FOX turns monk at length
• F641 The FOX was sick and he knew not where, he clapped his hand on his tail and swore it was there
• F642 The FOX when he cannot reach the grapes says that they are not ripe (are sour)
• F643 He sets the FOX to keep the geese
• F644 He that has a FOX for his mate had need have a net at his girdle
• F645 He that will deceive the FOX must rise betimes
• F646 Like the FOX who having lost his own tail would needs persuade all others out of theirs
• F647 An old FOX cannot be taken by a snare
• F648 An old FOX need learn no craft
• F649 The sleepy FOX has seldom feathered breakfasts
• F650 Though the FOX run the chicken has wings
• F651 To catch the FOX
• F652 To flay the FOX
• F653 We must fall down before a FOX (lion, fortune) in season
• F654 We never find that a FOX dies in the dirt of his own ditch
• F655 When the FOX has got in his head (nose) he will soon make the body follow
• F656 When the FOX preaches beware the geese
• F657 When the FOX sleeps nothing falls (no grapes fall) into his mouth
• F658 When the FOX stays long he looks for a prey
• F659 The FOX's wiles will never enter into the lion's head
• F660 To be in a FOX's sleep
• F661 To yoke FOXES
• F662 FRANCE is a meadow that cuts thrice a year
• F663 He that will FRANCE (Scotland) win must with Scotland (France) first begin
• F664 To go upon the FRANCISCANS' hackney
• F665 FRANKINCENSE is burned before it smells
• F666 He farts FRANKINCENSE
• F667 Too FREE to be fat
• F668 FREEDOM is a fair thing
• F669 To feed like a FREEHOLDER OF MACCLESFIELD, who has neither corn nor hay at Michaelmas
• F670 The FRENCH neither pronounce as they write nor sing as they prick nor think as they speak
• F670a He is FRENCHIFIED
• F671 Have the FRENCHMAN for thy friend not for thy neighbor
• F672 FRENZY, heresy, and jealousy seldom cured
• F673 Do as the FRIAR says, not as he does
• F674 A FRIAR a liar
• F675 The FRIAR preached against stealing and had a goose (when he had a pudding) in his sleeve
• F676 What was good the FRIAR never loved
• F677 When the FRIAR is beaten then comes James
• F678 Observant FRIARS spare their own and eat that which is other men's
• F679 FRIDAY is an unlucky day
• F680 He that sings on FRIDAY will weep on Sunday
• F681 A FRIDAY's feast (face, reason)
• F682 FRIDAY's hair and Sunday's horn goes to the dule¹ on Monday morn
• F682a FRIDAY's hair and Sunday's horn goes to the dule¹ on Monday morn
• F683 Admonish your FRIEND in secret, commend him in public
• F684 Be a FRIEND to thyself and others will be so too
• F685 Before you make a FRIEND eat a bushel of salt with him
• F686 Better a new FRIEND than an old foe
• F687 Better is a FRIEND in court than (A friend in court is worth) a penny in purse
• F688 A faithful FRIEND is like a phoenix
• F689 Fall not out with a FRIEND for a trifle
• F690 A FRIEND as far as the altar (as conscience permits)
• F691 A FRIEND from the teeth outward
• F692 A FRIEND in a corner
• F693 A FRIEND in need is a friend in deed (indeed)
• F694 A FRIEND is never known till a man have need
• F695 A FRIEND is not so soon gotten as lost
• F696 A FRIEND is one's second self
• F697 The FRIEND that faints is a foe
• F698 A FRIEND to all is a friend to none
• F699 A FRIEND will help at a dead lift
• F700 A good FRIEND is as the sun in winter
• F701 A good FRIEND is my nearest relation
• F702 A good FRIEND never offends
• F703 He is a FRIEND at a sneeze, the most you can get of him is a God-bless-you (God-help-you)
• F704 He is a good FRIEND that speaks well on's behind our backs
• F705 He is my FRIEND that grinds at my mill
• F706 He is my FRIEND that succors me
• F707 He who cannot counterfeit a FRIEND can never be a very bad enemy
• F708 He would rather lose his FRIEND than his jest
• F709 I cannot be your FRIEND and your flatterer
• F710 Love a FRIEND together with his fault
• F711 Make not thy FRIEND too cheap to thee nor thyself too dear to him
• F712 Never trust much to a new FRIEND or an old enemy
• F713 No FRIEND to¹ a friend in mister²
• F714 No longer foster,¹ no longer FRIEND (leman²)
• F715 An old FRIEND is a new house
• F716 One good FRIEND watches for another
• F717 One may visit a FRIEND sometimes but if he intends to be welcome he must not stay long
• F718 Prove your FRIEND ere you have need
• F719 A true FRIEND a great treasure
• F720 A true FRIEND should be like a privy, open in necessity
• F721 Trust no FRIEND with that you need fear him if he were your enemy
• F722 When a FRIEND asks there is no tomorrow
• F723 When I lend I am his FRIEND, when I ask I am unkind
• F724 Wherever you see your FRIEND trust yourself
• F725 Who lends to a FRIEND loses double
• F726 A FRIEND's dinner is soon dight¹
• F727 A FRIEND's frown is better than a fool's smiles (foe's kiss)
• F728 Afraid of your FRIENDS when none is near
• F729 Among FRIENDS all things are common
• F730 Be not ungrateful to your old FRIENDS
• F731 Choose your FRIENDS like your books, few but choice
• F732 Drink and be FRIENDS
• F733 Farewell and be hanged, FRIENDS must part
• F734 FRIENDS agree best at a distance
• F735 FRIENDS are thieves of time
• F736 FRIENDS do tie the purse with a cobweb thread
• F737 FRIENDS fail flyers
• F738 FRIENDS (Men) may meet but mountains never (never greet)
• F739 From my FRIENDS God defend me, from my enemies I can keep myself
• F740 Happy is he whose FRIENDS were (whose father was) born before him
• F741 Have but few FRIENDS though much acquaintance
• F742 He may bear all his FRIENDS on his back
• F743 He may even go write to his FRIENDS
• F744 He that has many FRIENDS eats too much salt with his meat
• F745 He that would have FRIENDS must show himself friendly
• F746 Here's to our FRIENDS and hang up the rest of our kindred
• F747 If you deal so ill by your FRIENDS what will you do with your enemies?
• F748 It is good to have FRIENDS
• F749 It is good to have some FRIENDS both in heaven and hell
• F750 It is merry when FRIENDS meet
• F751 It is not tint¹ that is done to FRIENDS
• F752 Keep well thy FRIENDS when thou hast gotten them
• F753 Kiss and be FRIENDS
• F754 Many FRIENDS in general, one in special
• F755 Old FRIENDS and old wine are best
• F756 To all FRIENDS round the Wrekin
• F757 To make two FRIENDS with one gift
• F758 When FRIENDS meet hearts warm
• F759 A broken FRIENDSHIP may be soldered but will never be sound
• F760 FRIENDSHIP stands not on one side
• F761 Perfect FRIENDSHIP (love) cannot be without equality
• F762 Trencher FRIENDSHIP
• F763 The FROG cannot out of her bog
• F764 To fret like a FROG under a harrow
• F765 To sit like a FROG on a chopping (washing) block
• F766 When the FROG has hair thou wilt be good
• F767 You fish fair and catch a FROG
• F768 Bearded FROST forerunner of snow
• F769 Farewell FROST
• F770 FROST and fraud have always foul ends
• F771 He that is surprised with the first FROST feels it all the winter after
• F772 They must hunger in FROST that will not work in heat
• F773 The first and last FROSTS are the worst
• F774 Sharp FROSTS bite forward springs
• F775 So many FROSTS in March so many in May
• F776 FRUGALITY and good husbandry is an income (estate)
• F777 Good FRUIT of a good tree
• F778 If you would FRUIT have you must bring the leaf to the grave
• F779 Stolen FRUIT is (Stolen apples are) sweet
• F780 Sweet is the FRUIT of labor
• F781 He has shot his FRY
• F782 The FRYING PAN said to the kettle, Avaunt, black brows
• F783 He that holds a FRYING PAN by the tail may turn it which way he lists
• F784 Out of (To leap like the flounder out of) the FRYING PAN (pan) into the fire
• F785 Add FUEL to the fire
• F786 Take away FUEL take away fire (flame)
• F787 In FULLNESS there is forgetfulness
• F788 He is free of FUMBLER's HALL
• F789 She simpers like a FURMITY-KETTLE
• F790 Under the FURZE is hunger and cold, under the broom is silver and gold