Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Forced love does not last.
Forced love ne'er dae.
Forced put is no choice.
Foreign bread is good for your son.
Foreign places are nice enough, but home is
sweeter.
Foreigners bring fleas to the sauna.
Foresight could make wise men of
Durraman's donkeys.
Foresight is better than a night of terror.
Fore-talk spares after-talk.
Forethought is easy, repentance hard.
Forever can spare a minute.
Forever is a long bargain.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Forewarned is forearmed.
Forget brotherhood, each goat will cost your
seven dinars.
Forget favours you have bestowed,
remember those you have received.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Forget not that you are a man.
Forget the favors you have given; remember
those received.
Forget the fishing gear as soon as the fish is
caught.
Forget the past, but look out in the future.
Forget your troubles at the dining table.
Forgetness is the plague of knowledge.
Forgetting a debt does not pay it.
Forgetting the cow, when going out to
plough.
Forgetting trouble is the way to cure it.
Forgetting your native tongue means
forgetting your native country.
Forgive all but thyself.
Forgive and forget
Forgive and forget.
Forgive and regret much later.
Forgive thyself nothing and others much.
Forgiven is not forgotten.
Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can't
get back from revenge.
Forgiveness is a pillar of justice.
Forgiveness is more satisfying than revenge.
Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing
pictures on water.
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Forsake not God till you find a better
master.
Fortunate is he whom the dangers of others
have rendered cautious.
Fortune aids the bold.
Fortune and flowers do not last forever.
Fortune and glass break easily.
Fortune and glass break soon, alas.
Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in
the same well.
Fortune and misfortune live in the same
courtyard.
Fortune and olives are alike: sometimes a
man has an abundance and other times
not any.
Fortune and olives are alike: sometimes a
man has an abundance and other times
not any.
Fortune and the arts assist each other.
Fortune and women are partial to fools.
Fortune aye favours the active and bauld.
Fortune can take away riches but not
courage.
Fortune can take from us only what she has
given us.
Fortune comes to him who strives for it.
Fortune does not stand waiting at any one's
door.
Fortune enriches or tramples on us at her
will.
Fortune favors fools. Genius is a capacity for
taking trouble.
Fortune favors the bold, but abandons the
timid.
Fortune favours the brave.
Fortune favours the fool.
Fortune give many too much, but no one
enough.
Fortune gives her hand to a bold man.
Fortune goes like a wheel.
Fortune has a fickle heart and a short
memory.
Fortune helps fools.
Fortune helps the brave.
Fortune helps the hardy.