2214 French Proverbs / Page 30
581.
Fat pastures make fat venison.582.
Fear and restlessness kill more than do illnesses.583.
Fear is a great inventor.584.
Feather by feather the goose can be plucked.585.
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.586.
Fie upon a cloak in fair weather.587.
Fields have eyes and woods have ears.588.
Fine and fine make but a slender doublet.589.
Fine birds are commonly plucked.590.
Fine dressing is a foul house, swept before the windows.591.
Fine feathers make find birds.592.
Fine feathers make fine birds.593.
Fish must swim three times: once in the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.594.
Flies are easier caught with honey than with vinegar.595.
Flies will not light on a boiling pot.596.
Flying birds have no master.597.
Follow the river and you will reach the sea.598.
Fools are more useful to the wise than wise are to fools.599.
Fools go in throngs.600.
Fools never get grey hair.