A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

fashion see BETTER be out of the world than out of the fashion; when the GORSE is out of bloom, kissing’s out of fashion.
fast see BAD news travels fast; a MONEYLESS man goes fast through the market.
fastest see he TRAVELS fastest who travels alone.
fasting see it’s ill speaking between a FULL man and a fasting.
The FAT man knoweth not what the lean thinketh

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  1640 G. HERBERT Outlandish Proverbs no. 605 The fatt man knoweth not, what the leane thinketh. 1952 C. R. SHORT Devil’s Power 111 Tony Gowar grunted. He was thinking of an old proverb he had read in a seventeenth-century book of proverbs in his father’s library: ‘The fat man knoweth not what the lean thinketh!’ "ignorance
  

fat see also a GREEN Yule makes a fat churchyard; the OPERA isn’t over till the fat lady sings.
Like FATHER, like son
The variant form like father, like daughter also occurs. Like MOTHER, like daughter evolved separately, although both it and this proverb were fixed in this form in the seventeenth century. Cf. L. qualis pater talis filius, as is the father, so is the son.

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  c 1340 R. ROLLE Psalter (1884) 342 Ill sunnys folous ill fadirs. 1509 A. BARCLAY Ship of Fools 98 An olde prouerbe hath longe agone be sayde That oft the sone in maners lyke wyll be Vnto the Father. 1616 T. DRAXE Adages 149 Like father like sonne. 1709 O. DYKES English Proverbs 30 Like Father, like Son. .. How many Sons inherit their Fathers Failings, as well as Estates? 1936 W. HOLTBY South Riding v. i. Perhaps Lydia might do it once too often. ..Like father, like daughter. 1983 ‘M. INNES’ Appleby & Honeybath xii. And like son, like father, if one may so vary the old expression. Neither of them reading men. "children and parents; similarity and dissimilarity
  

father see also the CHILD is father of the man; EXPERIENCE is the father of wisdom; SUCCESS has many fathers, while failure is an orphan; it is a WISE child that knows its own father; the WISH is father to the thought.