Proverbs Beginning with P

1

Parents are patterns

parents

› 2

Patience is a plaster for all sores.

patience

› 3

Pay beforehand was never well served

incentive

› 4

Pen is mightier than the sword.

words

› 5

Penny wise and pound foolish.

caution

› 6

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

retaliation

› 7

Pity is akin to love

pity

› 8

Pity is akin to love.

pity

› 9

Pleasure has a sting in its tail.

pleasure

› 10

Plenty is no plague.

plenty

› 11

Politeness costs little but yields much.

politeness

› 12

Possession is nine points of the law

legal

› 13

Possession is nine points of the law

law

› 14

Poverty is no sin.

poverty

› 15

Poverty waits at the gates of idleness.

poverty

› 16

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrrupts absolutely.

power

› 17

Practice makes perfect.

practice

› 18

Practice what you preach.

behaviour

› 19

Praise the child and you make love to the mother.

praise

› 20

pretty is as pretty does

beauty

› 21

Prevention is better than cure;

prevention

› 22

Pride feels no pain

pride

› 23

Pride goes before a fall.

pride

› 24

Pride goes before a fall.

pride

› 25

Problem shared is a problem halved.

problem

› 26

Procrastination is the thief of time.

delay

› 27

Promise is a debt.

promise

› 28

Promise little, but do much.

promise

› 29

Promises are like pie crust,

promise

› 30

Promises, like piecrust, are made to be broken.

promise

› 31

Prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them.

friendship

› 32

Providence is always on the side of the big battalions.

luck

› 33

Punctuality is the politeness of kings

punctuality

› 34

Punctuality is the soul of business.

time

› 35

Put not your hand between the bark and the tree.

involve

› 36

Put your money where your mouth is,

promises

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