Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.
Fresh fish and new-come guests smell in
three days.
Fresh fish and poor friends grew soon ill
far'd.
Fresh pork and new wine kill a man before
his time.
Fresh port and new wine, send a Christian
to the churchyard.
Fret not for yourself because of evildoers.
Fret today, regret tomorrow.
Fretful persons can be offended.
Fretting cares make grey hairs.
Friar Modest never was a prior.
Friday is longer than Saturday.
Friday pretexts for not fasting.
Friend, do not try to borrow combs from
shaven monks.
Friendless in life, friendless in death.
Friendly is as friendly does.
Friendly words are convincing.
Friendly words gain much and cost nothing.
Friends and family are worth more than
money.
Friends and mules fail in hard trials.
Friends and mules fail us at hard passes.
Friends and wine should be old.
Friends are known in time of need.
Friends are like centipedes, they have many
legs when work needs to be done.
Friends are like centipedes, they have many
legs when work needs to be done.
Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not
be screwed too tight.
Friends are lost by calling often and calling
seldom.
Friends are lost by calling too often and by
not calling often enough.
Friends are needed both for joy and for
sorrow.
Friends become foes, and foes are
reconciled.
Friends fought over a here’s head. (don’t
quarrel over little things)
Friends have all things in common.
Friends in need are friends indeed.
Friends may meet, but mountains never
210
greet.
Friends tie their purses with a spider's web.
Friends tie thier purse with a cobweb
thread.
Friendship between gentlemen appears
indifferent but is pure like water.
Friendship broken may be soldered, but
never made whole.
Friendship canna stand aye on ae side.
Friendship does not need pepper to cry.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Friendship doubles our joy and divides our
grief.
Friendship is a furrow in the sand.
Friendship is a plant we must often water.
Friendship is an empty word if it only
works one way.
Friendship is as it's kept.
Friendship is friendship, but keep your
tobacco apart.
Friendship is honey - but don't eat it all.
Friendship is love with intelligence.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Friendship is one thing and tobacco is
another.
Friendship lasts as long as the pot boils.
Friendship likes distance.
Friendship reminds us of fathers, love of
mothers.
Friendship should be unpicked, not rent.
Friendship stands not in One side.
Friendship with the French is like their
wine; exquisite but short lived.
Friendships are cheap when they can be
brought by doffing the hat.
Frightened at bugbears.
Frivolous talk is like shooting without
aiming.
Frog in a coconut shell.
Frog never gargle him troat till him tas'e
fresh water.
From a bad paymaster get what you can.
From a bad paymaster take straw--i.e. any
trifle.
From a big cloud comes little rain.