1614 American Proverbs / Page 32
621.
Figures don't lie, but sometimes liars figure.622.
Fire and flax agree not.623.
Fire is a good servant but a bad master.624.
Fireflies shine only when in motion.625.
First a daughter, then a son, and the family's well begun.626.
First build your house and then accommodate the furniture.627.
First clean out your own backyard.628.
First deserve and then desire.629.
First endure, then pity, then embrace.630.
First there, first served.631.
Fish and visitors smell after three days.632.
Fish or cut bait.633.
Flattery butters no parsnips.634.
Flattery, like perfume, should be smelled, not swallowed.635.
Folks like the truth that hits their neighbor.636.
Folks spend their health to acquire wealth and later spend their wealth in an effort to regain their health.637.
Follow not truth too near the heels lest it dash out your teeth.638.
Follow the wise few rather than the vulgar many.639.
Fooled once shame on you, fooled twice shame on me.640.
Fools and children should never look at unfinished work.