We Know Proverbs<br>Extensive collecion of Proverbs by country
 
Google
 
The Proverbs are arranged by geographical/national locations.

Select the first character of the geographical location/nation that you want to look at:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


Latin Proverb - P


  • Pain mingles with pleasure.

  • Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

  • Patience overtaxed turns to rage.

  • Peace gains a value from discord.

  • Perhaps you will soon find another, and a fairer, lover.

  • Philosophers as far as the beard.

  • Plague seize the hindmost!

  • Pleasure and pain succeed each other.

  • Pleasure is the bait of evil.

  • Pleasure often comes from pain.

  • Poets are born, but orators are made.

  • Ponder long before you act.

  • Pondering over many things by night.

  • Poor though in the midst of wealth.

  • Potter envies potter, and smith smith.

  • Poverty is death in another form.

  • Poverty makes a man mean.

  • Poverty shows us who are our friends and who our enemies.

  • Power is strengthened by union.

  • Practice is better than theory.

  • Precepts invite, but examples drag us to conclusions.

  • Presents from an enemy must be received with suspicion.

  • Presents more burdensome than profitable.

  • Promises must not fill the place of gifts.

  • Property is robbery.

  • Providence assists not the idle.

  • Providence crushes pride.

  • Providence has not entirely deserted us.

  • Providence may delay, but punishment will come at length.

  • Providence our herald, no barrier can oppose us.

  • Providential aid at a critical moment.

  • Prudence is the charioteer of all virtues.

  • Puffed goods are putrid.

  • Punic faith. [Treachery.]

  • Punishment awaits all offences.

  • Punishment awaits crime.

  • Pursue that course which offers most advantages, habit will soon make it agreeable and easy.

  •   

    Visit: We Know Jokes    We Know Clean Jokes    We Know Sports Quotations    We Know Campfire Songs