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The fox thinks everybody eats poultry like himself.
      - (French) [Proverbs]

The fox thrives best when he is most cursed.
      - [Proverbs]

The Fox's wiles will never enter the lion's head.
      - [Proverbs]

The Frenchman sings well, when his throat is moistened.
      - (Portuguese) [Proverbs]

The friar preached against stealing when he had a pudding in his sleeve.
      - (Dutch) [Proverbs]

The friar preached against stealing, and had a goose up his sleeve.
      - [Proverbs]

The friar who begs for God begs for two.
      - (Spanish) [Proverbs]

The friendship of great men is like the shadow of a bush, soon gone.
      - (French) [Proverbs]

The friendship of the great is fraternity with lions.
      - (Italian) [Proverbs]

The frog cannot out of her bog.
      - [Proverbs]

The frog does not jump in the daytime without reason.
      - (Nigerian) [Proverbs]

The frog likes water, but not boiling water.
      - (Senegalese) [Proverbs]

The frog said to the harrow, Cursed be so many lords.
      - [Proverbs]

The frog wanted to be as big as the elephant, and burst.
      - (Ethiopian) [Proverbs]

The frog will jump back into the pool, although it sits on a golden stool.
      - (Dutch) [Proverbs]

The frost hurts not weeds.
      - [Proverbs]

The fruit falls not far from the stem.
      - (Dutch) [Proverbs]

The fruit of silence is tranquility.
      - (Arabic) [Proverbs]

The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
      - (Arabic) [Proverbs]

The frying-pan says to the kettle, "Avaunt, black brows!"
      - [Proverbs]

The fugitive finds everything impede him.
      - (Italian) [Proverbs]

The full belly does not believe in hunger.
      - (Italian) [Proverbs]

The full cask makes no noise.
      - (Italian) [Proverbs]

The full moon brings fair weather.
      - [Proverbs]

The full person does not understand the needs of the hungry.
      - (Irish) [Proverbs]

The full-fed cow makes company of her tail.
      - (Spanish) [Proverbs]

The full-fed sheep is frightened at its own tail.
      - (Portuguese, Spanish) [Proverbs]

The fuller the cask, the duller its sound.
      - (German) [Proverbs]

The fun is in the search, not the finding.
      - [Proverbs]

The further you go, the further behind.
      - [Proverbs]

The furthest way about is the nearest way home.
      - [Proverbs]

The gallows takes its own.
      - (Spanish) [Proverbs]

The gallows was made for the unlucky.
      - (Italian, Spanish) [Proverbs]

The gallows will have its own at last.
      - [Proverbs]

The game is not worth the candle.
  [Fr., Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle.]
      - (French), quoted by Lord Chesterfield
        [Proverbs : Worth]

The gardener had not yet dug out the radish, when the beggar held the alms-bowl in front of him.
      - (Kashmiri) [Proverbs]

The gardener's dog does not eat lettuce and will not let others eat it.
      - (Italian) [Proverbs]

The gardener's dog neither eats greens not lets any one else eat them.
      - (Portuguese, Spanish) [Proverbs]

The gardener's dog, neither full nor hungry.
      - (Spanish) [Proverbs]

The gardener's feet do no harm to the garden.
      - (Spanish) [Proverbs]

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
      - (Chinese) [Proverbs]

The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.
      - (Dutch) [Proverbs]

The generous man grows rich in giving, the miser poor in taking.
      - (Danish) [Proverbs]

The gentle calf sucks all the cows.
      - (Portuguese) [Proverbs]

The gentle hawk mans herself.
      - (French) [Proverbs]

The gentle lamb sucks any ewe as well as its mother; the surly lamb sucks neither its own nor another.
      - (Spanish) [Proverbs]

The German's wit is in his fingers.
      - [Proverbs]

The Germans carry their wit in their fingers.
      - (French) [Proverbs]

The gifts of fortune (windfalls) do not always benefit us.
      - (Latin) [Proverbs]

The girl as she is taught, the flax as it is wrought.
      - (Spanish) [Proverbs]


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