Alphabetical List. Proverbs and Quotes starting from P

Paddle your own canoe.

Pain is so close to pleasure.

Pain is temporary, victory is forever.

Paint applied to wall, money given for slut will never come back .

Pardon all but theyself.

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.

Past cure, past care.

Patience is a virtue.

Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.

Peace begins just where ambition ends.

Pearls of wisdom.

Penny wise and pound foolish.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

People who think the world revolves around them have no sense of direction.

Perfection is imperfect.

Persuasion is better than force.

Pick your friends like you pick your fruit.

Plant the crab tree where you will, it will never bear pippins.

Play with fire.

Poor men seek meat for their stomach; rich men stomach for their meat

Possession is nine tenths of the law.

Poverty is a stranger to industry. At the work man’s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

Poverty waits at the gates of idleness.

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Practice makes perfect.

Practise what you preach.

Pretty as a picture.

Prevention is better than cure.

Pride comes before a fall.

Pride feels no pain.

Procrastination is the thief of time.

Promise is debt.

Promises are like babies Easy to make, hard to deliver.

Put the cat out.

Put your best foot forward.