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This resource includes the best-known proverbs in the English language from around the world with quotations that provide a history of each proverb. Discover the story behind "Never say never," "It takes one to know one," and "Once bitten, twice shy."
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fact: Fact is stranger than fiction

facts: Facts are stubborn things

faint: Faint heart never won fair lady

fair: All's fair in love and war

fair: Fair and softly goes far in a day

fair: Fair play's a jewel

faith: Faith will move mountains

familiarity: Familiarity breeds contempt

family: The family that prays together stays together

far-fetched: Far-fetched and dear-bought is good for ladies

father: Like father, like son

fault: A fault confessed is half redressed

fear: Fear the Greeks bearing gifts

february: February fill dyke, be it black or be it white

february: If in february there be no rain, 'tis neither good for hay nor grain

feed: Feed a cold and starve a fever

female: The female of the species is more deadly than the male

fields: Fields have eyes, and woods have ears

fight: Fight fire with fire

fights: He who fights and runs away, may live to fight another day

finders: Finders keepers (losers weepers)

findings: Findings keepings

fine: Fine feathers make fine birds

fine: Fine words butter no parsnips

fingers: Fingers were made before forks

fire: Fire is a good servant but a bad master

first: First catch your hare

first: First come, first served

first: First impressions are the most lasting

first: First things first

first: First thoughts are best

first: It is the first step that is difficult

first: On the first of March, the crows begin to search

first: The first duty of a soldier is obedience

first: There is always a first time

fish: All is fish that comes to the net

fish: Fish and guests smell after three days

fish: The fish always stinks from the head downwards

fish: There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it

follows: He that follows freits, freits will follow him

fool: A fool and his money are soon parted

fool: A fool at forty is a fool indeed

fool: A fool may give a wise man counsel

fool: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me

fool: There's no fool like an old fool

fools: Fools and bairns should never see half-done work

fools: Fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer

fools: Fools build houses and wise men live in them

fools: Fools for luck

fools: Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

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