527. Face. Her face was her fortune.
528. Fact. A single fact is worth a ship-load of argument.
529. Faint heart. Faint heart never won a fair lady.
530. Faint praise. Faint praise is disparagement.
531. Fair and foolish.
Fair and foolish, black and proud,
Long and lazy, little and loud.
532. Fair and softly. Fair and softly go far in a day.
533. Fair faces. Fair faces need no paint.
534. Fair face. A fair face may hide a foul heart.
535. Fair feathers. Fair feathers make fair fowls.
536. Faith. Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness.
537. Fall. One may sooner fall than rise.
538. Fall. If a man once fall, all will tread on him.
539. Falls. When the tree falls every man runs with his hatchet.
540. Falling. Keeping from falling is better than helping up.
541. False report. A false report rides post.
542. Familiarity. Familiarity breeds contempt.
543. Famine.
After a famine in the stall,
Comes a famine in the hall.
544. Famine. Under water famine, under snow bread.
545. Famine. A famine in England begins at the horse-manger.
546. Fancy. Fancy passes beauty.
547. Fancy. Fancy goes a long way.
548. Fancy. Fancy may bolt bran and think it flour.
549. Fare worse. You may go farther and fare worse.
550. Fashion. As good to be out of the world as out of the fashion.
551. Fast bind. Fast bind, fast find.
552. Fat hog. Every one basteth the fat hog, while the lean one burneth.
553. Fault. Every one puts his fault on the times.
554. Fault. A fault once denied is twice committed.
555. Fault-finders. Fault-finders should be fault-menders.
556. Faults. Every one's faults are not written on their foreheads.
557. Faults. Every man hath his faults.
558. Faults. God send me a friend that may tell me my faults; if not, an enemy, he will be sure to.
559. Faulty. The faulty stands on his guard.
560. Feast. A feast is not made of mushrooms only.
561. Feast-making. Merry is the feast-making until we come to the reckoning.
562. Feasts. Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
563. Feathers. Fine feathers make fine birds.
564. Feather. Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
565. February. February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.
566. February.
February fill dike, be it black or be it white;
But if it be white, it's the better to like.
567. Feed sparingly. Feed sparingly, and defy the physician.
568. Feet.
Stretch not your feet
Beyond the sheet.
569. Fellowship. Love and lordship like no fellowship.
570. Fetters. No man loves his fetters, though of gold.
571. Few friends. Have but few friends, though many acquaintances.
572. Few words.
Where hearts are true
Few words will do.
573. Fiddler. The fifer don't pay a fiddler.
574. Fiddler.
Let not the fiddler play the fife,
Nor fifer play the fiddle.
575. Fiddler's fare. Fiddler's fare; meat, drink, and money.
576. Fields. Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
577. Finger. He wants to have a finger in every pie.
578. First blow. The first blow is half the battle.
579. First come. First come, first served.
580. Fire and water. Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.
581. Fire. Well may he smell of fire whose gown burneth.
582. Fish. He that would catch fish must not mind getting wet.
583. Fish. 'Tis good fish if it were but caught.
584. Fish. The best fish are near the bottom.
585. Fish. I have other fish to fry.
586. Fish. Make not fish of one, and flesh of another.
587. Fish. Fish are not to be caught by a birdcall.
588. Fish (good). There's as good fish in the sea as were ever caught.
589. Fishes' mouth.
When the wind's in the south,
It blows the bait into the fishes' mouth.
590. Fisheth on. He fisheth on that catcheth one.
591. Fishing. It's good fishing in troubled waters.
592. Fits. Every shoe fits not every foot.
593. Five.
He's up at five,
And he will thrive.
594. Flax. Get thy spindle and thy distaff ready, and God will send thee flax.
595. Flay. No man can flay a stone.
596. Fleeceth. Where every hand fleeceth, the sheep go naked.
597. Flood. A May flood never did good.
598. Flowers. Flowers are the pledge of fruit.
599. Flourish. It is one thing to flourish and another to fight.
600. Flying. No flying without wings.
601. Follies. Happy is he who knows his follies in his youth.
602. Fool. No one is a fool always; every one sometimes.
603. Fool. A fool may ask more questions in half an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.
604. Fool. A fool may give a wise man counsel.
605. Fool. One fool makes many.
606. Fool. Every man is either a fool or a physician after thirty years of age.
607. Fool (old). An old fool is the worst of fools.
608. Fool. Better it is to meet a bear bereaved of her whelps, than a fool in his folly.
609. Fool. A fool is fulsome.
610. Fool thinks. As the fool thinks, so the bell chinks.
611. Fools. Fools set stools for wise folk to stumble at.
612. Fool's bolt. A fool's bolt is soon shot.
613. Fools build. Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
614. Forbearance. Forbearance is no acquittance.
615. Forbidden fruit. Forbidden fruit is sweet.
616. Forced fruits. Forced fruits fail in flavour.
617. Forecast. Forecast is better than work hard.
618. Forego.
Forego, forget, forgive,
Then happy you shall live.
619. Foremost dog. The foremost dog catches the hare.
620. Forewarned. Forewarned is forearmed.
621. Forget. To forget a wrong is the best revenge.
622. Forgive. Forgive and forget.
623. Forgotten. Eaten bread is soon forgotten.
624. Fortune. Fortune favours the brave.
625. Fortune. Every man is the architect of his fortune.
626. Fortune. Change of fortune is the lot of life.
627. Fortune. Better a fortune in her than on her.
628. Fortune. When fortune smiles take the advantage.
629. Fortune knocks. Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.
630. Foul hands. Foul hands befoul all they touch.
631. Four Farthings. Four farthings and a thimble make a tailor's pocket jingle.
632. Fox. The fox knows much, but more he that catcheth him.
633. Fox. A fox should not be of the jury at a goose trial.
634. Fox. When the fox preaches, beware of your geese.
635. Foxes. Foxes, when they cannot reach the grapes, say they are not ripe.
636. Fox runs. Though the fox runs the chicken hath wings.
637. Fret.
Two things you won't fret o'er,
If you're a wise man—
The thing you can't help,
And the thing that you can.
638. Friday. He that sings on Friday shall weep on Sunday.
639. Friday.
As the Friday, so the Sunday,
As the Sunday, so the week.
640. Friday's sail. Friday's sail, sure to fail.
641. Friend. A friend is not so soon gotten as lost.
642. Friend. A friend in need is a friend indeed.
643. Friend. He loseth nothing who keeps God for his friend.
644. Friend. Make not thy friend too cheap to thee, nor thyself to thy friend.
645. Friends.
In time of prosperity friends will be plenty,
In time of adversity, not one among twenty.
646. Friends. Save me from my friends.
647. Friends. All are not friends that speak us fair.
648. Friendship. Love and lordship never like friendship.
649. Frost. What God will, no frost can kill.
650. Frosts. So many frosts in March, so many in May.
651. Fruit.
If you would fruit have,
You must bring the leaf to the grave.
652. Fruit. Such as the tree is, such is the fruit.
653. Fruit. If you would enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower.
654. Frugality. Frugality makes an easy chair for old age.
655. Frugality. Frugality is an estate.
656. Frying-pan. Out of the frying-pan into the fire.
657. Fuel. Take away fuel, take away flame.
658. Full purse. A full purse makes the mouth to speak.
659. Full purse. A full purse never lacketh friends.
660. Furze.
Under the furze is hunger and cold.
Under the broom is silver and gold.