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Every man has his ain draff poch. Experience teaches fools. F   Faint heart never won a fair lady. Fair words winna gar the pot boil. Fancy kills and cures. Fancy flees before the wind. Far away fowls have fair feathers. Feckless fouk are aye fain of anither. Fiddlers dogs flesh flies come to feasts uneas’d Fine feathers make fine birds. First come, first served. Fire and water are good servants but bad masters Flaes and a girning wife are wakerife bed fellows. Fleying a bird is not the gate to grip it. Fools shou'd na hae chapping sticks. Fools make feasts and wise men eat them. For fashion's sake as dogs gang to the market. Forbid a fool a thing and that he will do. Foul water slockens fire. Friendship canna stand aye on ae side. Fresh fish and poor friends grew soon ill far’d. G   Gentle paddocks have lang taes. Giff gaff makes good friends. Give a dog an ill name and ye may hang him. Give a man luck and fling him in the sea. Give o'er when the plays good. Give them tow enough and they hang themsels. Give you an inch you'll take na ell. Glasses and lasses are bruckle ware. Good watch prevents harm. Good-ware make a quick market. Gowd may be dear coft.