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| Proverb - P
Pain is forgotten where gain comes.Pain past is pleasure.Painted pictures are dead speakers.Painters and poets have leave to lie.Pale moon doth rain, red moon doth blow,
White moon doth neither rain nor snow.Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.Parting is such sweet sorrow.Past cure, past cure.Paternoster built churches, and Our Father pulls them down.Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit.Patience is a flower that grows not in every garden.Patience is a plaister for all sores.Patience is a plaster for all sores.Patience is a virtue.Patience, money, and time bring all things to pass.Pay beforehand was never well served.Pay, what you owe, and what you're worth you'll know.Pearls of wisdom.Peebles for pleasure.Penny and penny laid up will be many.Pens may blot, but they cannot blush.People who have bread to eat do not appreciate the severity of a famine.People who live in glass houses should never throw stones.Pepper to Hindostan.Pheasants are fools if they invite the hawk to dinner.Philosophy bakes no bread.Physicians rarely take medicine.Pigeons are taken when crows fly at pleasure.Pigs love that lie together.Pigs might fly, but they are very unlikely birds.Pity is akin to love.Plain dealing is a jewel, though they that use it commonly die beggars.Plain dealing is praised more than practised.Plant the crab-tree where you will it will never bear pippins.Play not with a man till you hurt him, nor jest till you shame him.Play with your peers.Play's gude, while it is play.Play, women and wine undo men laughing.Pleasant hours fly fast.Please the eye and plague the heart.Please the eye, and pick the purse.Please your eye and plague your heart.Pleasure has a sting in its tail.Pleasures, while they flatter, sting.Plenty makes dainty.Plough deep while other sleep
And you shall have corn to sell and to keep.Plough deep whilst sluggards sleep,
And you shall have corn to sell and to keep.Politeness travels on short fares.Politics makes strange bedfellows.Poor and liberal, rich and covetous.Poor folks are fain of little.Poor folks' friends soon misken.Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich meat stomach for their meat.Poor men's tables are soon spread.Possession is nine points of the law.Possession is the grave of pleasure.Pour not water on a drowned mouse.Poverty breeds strife.Poverty craves many things, but avarice more.Poverty is in want of much, avarice of everything.Poverty is no disgrace, but it's a great inconvenience.Poverty is no vice but an inconvenience.Poverty is not a crime.Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.Poverty parteth fellowship.Poverty parteth friends.Poverty trieth friends.Power corrupts.Praise a fair day at night.Praise is not pudding.Praise is the hire of virtue.Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.Praise to the face is open disgrace.Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.Praise without profit puts little in the pocket.Precepts may lead, but examples draw.Preserve the guns, but destroy the gunners.Presumption first blinds a man, and then sets him a running.Pretty makes no pottage.Pride and grace dwell never in one place.Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.Pride feels no cold.Pride feels no pain.Pride goes before a fall.Pride goes before, and shame follow after.Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all.Pride that dined with vanity supped with poverty.Procrastination is the thief of time.Profit by the folly of others.Promise is debt.Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken.Promises may make friends, but 'tis performances that keep them.Promises, like pie crust, are made to be broken.Prospect is often better than possession.Prosperity discovers vices, and adversity virtue.Prove thy friend ere thou have need.Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.Providence is always on the side of the big battalions.Providence is better than a rent.Prudent pauses forward business.Public reproof hardens shame.Puff not against the wind.Punctuality is the sole of business.Punctuality is the soul of business.Put a coward to his metal an' he'll fight the de'il.
[Put a coward to this mettle, and he'll fight the devil.]Put a stout heart to a steep hill.Put a stout heart to a stey brae.Put by for a rainy day.Put not thy hand between the bark and the tree.Put not your trust in princes.Put that in your pipe and smoke it.Put your best foot forward.Put your shoulder to the wheel.Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry.Putting the cart before the horse. |
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