Proverbs | List of Proverbs and Sayings
A List of proverbs and sayings. This page contains examples of proverbs and an ever growing list of proverbs. It is a good practice to avoid use of these proverbs in poetry unless used in a completely original way.
See also: Idioms.
What is a Proverb?
A proverb is a brief and popular saying that typically gives advice about how people should live or that expresses a belief that is commonly thought to be true.
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Examples of Proverbs
Faint heart never won a fair lady.
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Faint praise is disparagement.
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Fair and foolish
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Fair and softly as lawyers go to heaven.
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Fair and softly go far in a day.
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Fair faces need no paint.
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Fair fall truth and daylight.
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Fair feathers make fair fowls.
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Fair words butter no parsnips.
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Fair words will not keep a cat from starving.
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Fall not out with a friend for a trifle.
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FAMILIAR ENGLISH QUOTATIONS
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
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Fancy goes a long way.
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Fancy may bolt bran and think it flour.
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Fancy passes beauty.
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Far from court, far from care.
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Fast bind, fast find.
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Fault-finders should be fault-menders.
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Fear not the loss of the bell more than the loss of the steeple.
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Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
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February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.
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Feed sparingly, and defy the physician.
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Few people are out of the reach of slander.
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Few words are best.
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Fiddler's fare; meat, drink, and money.
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Fields have eyes, and woods have ears.
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Fine feathers make fine birds.
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Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.
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First come, first served.
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First creep and then go.
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First deserve and then desire.
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Fish are not to be caught by a birdcall.
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Flowers are the pledge of fruit.
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Follow the river and you'll get to the sea.
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Foolish pity spoils a city.
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Fools always come short of their reckoning.
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Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.
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Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
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Fools set stools for wise folk to stumble at.
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Fools think themselves wise to the very last.
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Fools tie knots and wise men loose them.
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For want of a nail the shoe is lost; for want of a shoe the horse is lost; for want of a horse the rider is lost.
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For what thou canst do thyself rely not on another.
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Forbearance is no acquittance.
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Forbidden fruit is sweet.
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Forced fruits fail in flavour.
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Forecast is better than work hard.
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Forewarned is forearmed.
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Forgive and forget.
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Forsake not the market for the toll.
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Fortune favours the brave.
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Fortune knocks once at least at every man's gate.
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Foul hands befoul all they touch.
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Four farthings and a thimble make a tailor's pocket jingle.
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Foxes, when they cannot reach the grapes, say they are not ripe.
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Friday's sail, sure to fail.
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Frugality is an estate.
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Frugality makes an easy chair for old age.
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