English Proverbs & Sayings part-8

First think, then speak.

Fish and company stink in three days.

Fish begins to stink at the head.

Follow the river and you'll get to the sea.

Fool's haste is no speed.

Fools and madmen speak the truth.

Fools grow without watering.

Fools may sometimes speak to the purpose.

Fools never know when they are well.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

For the love of the game.

Forbearance is no acquittance.

Forbidden fruit is sweet.

Forewarned is forearmed.

Fortune favours the brave (the bold).

Fortune is easily found, but hard to be kept.

Four eyes see more (better) than two.

Friends are thieves of time.

From bad to worse.

From pillar to post.

Gentility without ability is worse than plain beggary.

Get a name to rise early, and you may lie all day.

Gifts from enemies are dangerous.

Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.

Give never the wolf the wether to keep.

Gluttony kills more men than the sword.

Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark.

Good clothes open all doors.

Good counsel does no harm.

Good health is above wealth.

Good masters make good servants.

Good words and no deeds.

Good words without deeds are rushes and reeds.

Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.

Grasp all, lose all.

Great barkers are no biters.

Great boast, small roast.

Great cry and little wool.

Great spenders are bad lenders.

Great talkers are great liars.

Great talkers are little doers.

Greedy folk have long arms.

Habit cures habit.

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

"Hamlet" without the Prince of Denmark .

Handsome is that handsome does.

Happiness takes no account of time.

Happy is he that is happy in his children.