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Paddle together, bail, paddle; paddle, bail; paddle towards the land.
Proverb, (Hawaiian)

Paddle your own canoe.
Proverb, (American)

Pain is forgotten where gain comes.
Proverb

Pain mingles with pleasure.
Proverb, (Latin)

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
Proverb, (Latin)

Pain past is pleasure.
Proverb

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.
Proverb, (Greek)

Painted flowers are scentless.
Proverb, (German)

Painted flowers have no odour.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Painted pictures are dead speakers.
Proverb

Painters and poets have leave to lie.
Proverb

Pale moon doth rain, red moon doth blow,
White moon doth neither rain nor snow.
Proverb

Paper and ink and little justice.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Paper bears anything.
Proverb, (French)

Paper can't wrap up a fire.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Paper does not blush.
Proverb, (Italian)

Paper is patient.
Proverb, (German)

Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
Proverb

Parents can give everything but common sense.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Paris was not built in a day.
Proverb, (French)

Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
Proverb

Part with your head, but not with your secret.
Proverb, (Kurdish)

Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Proverb

Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have passed.
Proverb, (Azerbaijani)

Past cure, past cure.
Proverb

Paternoster built churches, and Our Father pulls them down.
Proverb

Patience and the mulberry leaf become a silk robe.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Patience is a bitter plant, but it has sweet fruit.
Proverb

Patience is a flower that grows not in every garden.
Proverb

Patience is a plaister for all sores.
Proverb

Patience is a plaster for all sores.
Proverb

Patience is a virtue.
Proverb

Patience is beautiful.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Patience is poultice for all wounds.
Proverb, (Irish)

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry becomes silk.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Patience is the key to paradise.
Proverb, (Turkish)

Patience is the virtue of asses.
Proverb, (French)

Patience overtaxed turns to rage.
Proverb, (Latin)

Patience surpasses learning.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Patience! said the wolf to the ass.
Proverb, (Italian)

Patience, money, and time bring all things to pass.
Proverb

Pay beforehand was never well served.
Proverb

Pay in like coin.
Proverb, (German)

Pay what you owe, and be cured of your complaint.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Pay what you owe, you will get well of your malady.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Pay, what you owe, and what you're worth you'll know.
Proverb

Pay-day comes every day.
Proverb, (German)

Peace and a well-built house cannot be bought too dearly.
Proverb, (Danish)

Peace and patience, and death with penitence.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Peace and tranquility are a thousand gold pieces.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Peace feeds, war wastes; peace breeds, war consumes.
Proverb, (Danish)

Peace gains a value from discord.
Proverb, (Latin)

Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.
Proverb, (African)

Peace is the well from which the stream of joy runs.
Proverb, (Gaelic)

Peace lasts until the army comes, and the army lasts until peace comes.
Proverb, (Russian)

Peace makes plenty.
Proverb, (English)

Peace must be bought even at a high price.
Proverb, (Danish)

Peace with a cudgel in hand is war.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Peacock, look at your legs.
Proverb, (German)

Pearls of wisdom.
Proverb

Pee on the ruins before they build a temple over them.
Proverb, (Sicilian)

Peebles for pleasure.
Proverb

Peel a fig for your friend, a peach for your enemy.
Proverb, (Italian)

Penny and penny laid up will be many.
Proverb

Penny is penny's brother.
Proverb, (German)

Penny wise, and pound foolish.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)

Pens may blot, but they cannot blush.
Proverb

People are man's medicine.
Proverb, (Senegalese)

People count the faults of those who keep them waiting.
Proverb, (French)

People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
Proverb, (French)

People lend only to the rich.
Proverb, (French)

People live in each other's shelter.
Proverb, (Irish)

People live with their own idiosyncrasies and die of their own illnesses.
Proverb, (Vietnamese)

People make the bells say what they please.
Proverb, (French)

People must eat, even were every tree a gallows.
Proverb, (Danish)

People often change and seldom for the better.
Proverb, (German)

People show their character by what they laugh at.
Proverb, (German)

People take more pains to be damned than to be saved.
Proverb, (French)

People who have bread to eat do not appreciate the severity of a famine.
Proverb

People who live in glass houses should never throw stones.
Proverb

People worry, and God smiles.
Proverb, (Hebrew)

Peralvillo justice: hang a man first and try him afterwards.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Perhaps you will soon find another, and a fairer, lover.
Proverb, (Latin)

Perseverance brings success.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Perseverance kills the game.
Proverb, (Portuguese, Spanish)

Persist as resolutely as you persist in eating.
Proverb, (Maaori)

Peter is so godly that God does not improve his condition.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Peter pinches me, and I like it.
Proverb, (Spanish)

"Peter, I am taking a ride," said the goose, when the fox was running into the wood with her.
Proverb, (Danish)

Pheasants are fools if they invite the hawk to dinner.
Proverb

Philosophy bakes no bread.
Proverb

Physicians rarely take medicine.
Proverb

Pick and choose, and take the worst.
Proverb, (French)

Pick your inn before the dark; get on your road before the dawn.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Piety, prudence, wit, and civility, are the elements of true nobility.
Proverb, (German)

Pigeons are taken when crows fly at pleasure.
Proverb

Pigs in the cold and men in drink make a great noise.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Pigs love that lie together.
Proverb

Pigs might fly, but they are very unlikely birds.
Proverb

Pilgrims seldom come home saints.
Proverb, (German)

Pills must be bolted, not chewed.
Proverb, (German)

Pills must be swallowed without chewing.
Proverb, (French)

Pity is akin to love.
Proverb

Places are God's; placemen are the devil's.
Proverb, (German)

Plague seize the hindmost!
Proverb, (Latin)

Plain dealing is a jewel, though they that use it commonly die beggars.
Proverb

Plain dealing is praised more than practised.
Proverb

Plan your year in the spring, your day at dawn.
Proverb, (Chinese)

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

Plants oft removed never thrive.
Proverb, (German)

Play not with a man till you hurt him, nor jest till you shame him.
Proverb

Play with an ass and he will flirt his tail in your face.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Play with an ass, and he will slap your face with his tail.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Play with the fool at home, and he will play with you abroad.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Play with your peers.
Proverb

Play's gude, while it is play.
Proverb

Play, women and wine undo men laughing.
Proverb

Pleasant hours fly fast.
Proverb

Please the eye and plague the heart.
Proverb

Please the eye, and pick the purse.
Proverb

Please your eye and plague your heart.
Proverb

Pleasure and pain succeed each other.
Proverb, (Latin)

Pleasure has a sting in its tail.
Proverb

Pleasure is the bait of evil.
Proverb, (Latin)

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to vice.
Proverb, (Greek)

Pleasure often comes from pain.
Proverb, (Latin)

Pleasures are shallow, sorrows deep.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.
Proverb, (Greek)

Pleasures steal away the mind.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Pleasures, while they flatter, sting.
Proverb

Plenty know good ale, but don't know much after that.
Proverb, (English)

Plenty makes daintiness.
Proverb, (Italian)

Plenty makes dainty.
Proverb

Plenty of words when the cause is lost.
Proverb, (Italian)

Plough deep and you will have plenty of corn.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Plough deep while other sleep
And you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Proverb

Plough deep whilst sluggards sleep,
And you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Proverb

Plough or not plough, you must pay your rent.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Plough wet or dry, and you will not have to kiss your neighbour's breech.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Pluck it from among the thistles, and we will take it off your hands.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Pluck the magpie, and don't make her scream.
Proverb, (Italian)

Pluck the rose and leave the thorns.
Proverb, (Italian)

Poets are born, but orators are made.
Proverb, (Latin)

Poets are born, not made.
Proverb, (American)

Poison quells poison.
Proverb, (Italian)

Policy goes beyond strength.
Proverb, (French)

Politeness is what warmth is to wax.
Proverb, (German)

Politeness travels on short fares.
Proverb

Politeness wins the confidence of princes.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Proverb

Ponder long before you act.
Proverb, (Latin)

Pondering over many things by night.
Proverb, (Latin)

Poor and liberal, rich and covetous.
Proverb

Poor folk's wisdom goes for little.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Poor folks are fain of little.
Proverb

Poor folks' friends soon misken.
Proverb

Poor is the church without music.
Proverb, (Irish)

Poor men do penance for rich men's sins.
Proverb, (Italian)

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

Poor men take to the sea, the rich to the mountains.
Proverb, (Irish)

Poor men's money and cowards' weapons are often flourished.
Proverb, (Italian)

Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Proverb, (German)

Poor men's tables are soon spread.
Proverb

Poor people entertain with the heart.
Proverb, (Haitian)

Poor people's words go many to a sackful.
Proverb, (German)

Poor relations have little honour.
Proverb, (Danish)

Poor thanks is the way of the world.
Proverb, (Norwegian)

Poor though in the midst of wealth.
Proverb, (Latin)

Poor Trust is dead; Bad Pay killed him.
Proverb, (English)

Popular agitation leads to justice.
Proverb, (Tamil)

Popularity is the small change of glory.
Proverb, (French)

Possession and good right, with lance in hand.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Possession is as good as a title.
Proverb, (French)

Possession is nine points of the law.
Proverb

Possession is the grave of pleasure.
Proverb

Postpone not a good action.
Proverb, (Irish)

Pots take turns to sit on the fire.
Proverb, (Massai)

Potter envies potter, and smith smith.
Proverb, (Latin)

Pound the garlic, Pedro, whilst I grate the cheese.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Pour not water on a drowned mouse.
Proverb

Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples.
Proverb, (German)

Poverty breeds strife.
Proverb

Poverty craves many things, but avarice more.
Proverb

Poverty does not destroy virtue, nor does wealth bestow it.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Poverty has no kin.
Proverb, (Italian)

Poverty is a sort of leprosy.
Proverb, (French)

Poverty is cunning; it catches even a fox.
Proverb, (German)

Poverty is death in another form.
Proverb, (Latin)

Poverty is in want of much, avarice of everything.
Proverb

Poverty is no disgrace, but it's a great inconvenience.
Proverb

Poverty is no sin, but it is a branch of roguery.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Poverty is no sin.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Poverty is no vice but an inconvenience.
Proverb

Poverty is not a crime.
Proverb

Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Proverb

Poverty is not a vice.
Proverb, (French)

Poverty is the reward of idleness.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Poverty is the sixth sense.
Proverb, (German)

Poverty makes a man mean.
Proverb, (Latin)

Poverty never sped well in love.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Poverty parteth fellowship.
Proverb

Poverty parteth friends.
Proverb

Poverty parts good company.
Proverb, (Irish)

Poverty shows us who are our friends and who our enemies.
Proverb, (Latin)

Poverty trieth friends.
Proverb

Poverty won't allow him to lift up his head; dignity won't allow him to bow it down.
Proverb, (Malagasy)

Power corrupts.
Proverb

Power is strengthened by union.
Proverb, (Latin)

Power often goes before talent.
Proverb, (Danish)

Practice is better than theory.
Proverb, (Latin)

Practice makes perfect.
Proverb, (Latin, German, Spanish)

Practice no vice because it's trivial; neglect no virtue because it's so.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Practice what you preach.
Proverb, (American)

Practise not your art, and 'twill soon depart.
Proverb, (Latin, German)

Praise a fair day at night.
Proverb

Praise a fair day in the evening.
Proverb, (Danish)

Praise a fine day at night.
Proverb, (German)

Praise a fool, and you may make him useful.
Proverb, (Danish)

Praise borrowed from ancestors is but very sorry praise.
Proverb, (Danish)

Praise is not pudding.
Proverb

Praise is the hire of virtue.
Proverb

Praise makes a bad man worse.
Proverb, (American)

Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.
Proverb

Praise paves the way to friendship.
Proverb, (Danish)

Praise the child, and you make love to the mother.
Proverb

Praise the fine day in the evening.
Proverb, (Gaelic)

Praise the ripe field, not the green corn.
Proverb, (Irish)

Praise the sea, and keep on land.
Proverb, (French, Italian)

Praise the young and they will blossom.
Proverb, (Irish)

Praise to the face is open disgrace.
Proverb

Praise without profit puts little in the pocket.
Proverb

Praise yourself, basket, for I want to sell you.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Praising is not loving.
Proverb, (German)

Pray for a good harvest, but keep on hoeing.
Proverb, (Slovenian)

Pray to God but continue to row to the shore.
Proverb, (Russian)

Pray to God, but hammer away.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Pray to the saint until you have passed the slough.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Pray, pray very much; but beware of telling God what you want.
Proverb, (French)

Prayers go up and blessings come down.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Praying kneads no dough.
Proverb, (Russian)

Precaution said, Good friend, this counsel keep: strip not yourself until you're laid to sleep.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Precepts invite, but examples drag us to conclusions.
Proverb, (Latin)

Precepts may lead, but examples draw.
Proverb

Precious ointments are put in small boxes.
Proverb, (French)

Precious things are mostly in small compass.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Precipitate counsel--perilous deed.
Proverb, (Danish)

Prepare a nest for the hen and she will lay eggs for you.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Prepare a nest for the hen, and she will lay eggs for you.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Prepare your proof before you argue.
Proverb, (Jewish)

Present to the eye, present to the mind.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Presents from an enemy must be received with suspicion.
Proverb, (Latin)

Presents keep friendship warm.
Proverb, (German)

Presents more burdensome than profitable.
Proverb, (Latin)

Preserve the guns, but destroy the gunners.
Proverb

Presumption first blinds a man, and then sets him a running.
Proverb

Pretty children sing pretty songs.
Proverb, (Danish)

Pretty makes no pottage.
Proverb

Pride and dignity would belong to women if only men would leave them alone.
Proverb, (Egyptian)

Pride and grace dwell never in one place.
Proverb

Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.
Proverb

Pride feels no cold.
Proverb

Pride feels no pain.
Proverb

Pride goes before a fall.
Proverb

Pride goes before, and shame follow after.
Proverb

Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverb

Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy.
Proverb

Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Proverb, (Jewish)

Pride joined with many virtues chokes them all.
Proverb

Pride that dined with vanity supped with poverty.
Proverb

Pride went out on horseback, and returned on foot.
Proverb, (Italian)

Pride will have a fall.
Proverb, (Danish, German)

Priestly knaves sweat hard at their meat, but never at work get into a heat.
Proverb, (German)

Priests and women never forget.
Proverb, (German)

Priests bless themselves first.
Proverb, (German)

Priests even smile pleasantly on young women.
Proverb, (German)

Priests pay each other no tithes.
Proverb, (German)

Priests return to the temple, merchants to the shop.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Priests should not prate out of the confessional.
Proverb, (German)

Priests, friars, nuns, and chickens never have enough.
Proverb, (Italian)

Princes have long arms.
Proverb, (Italian)

Princes have long hands and many ears.
Proverb, (German)

Princes keep good reckoning, they never lose anything.
Proverb, (French)

Princes use men as the husbandman uses bees.
Proverb, (French)

Princes will not be served on conditions.
Proverb, (French)

Prison and Lent were made for the poor.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Procrastination is the thief of time.
Proverb

Proffered service is little valued.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Proffered service stinks.
Proverb, (Dutch, Latin)

Profit by the folly of others.
Proverb

Profit is better than fame.
Proverb, (Danish)

Profit is profit even in Mecca.
Proverb, (Nigerian)

Promise is debt.
Proverb

Promise little and do much.
Proverb, (Hebrew)

Promises and pie-crusts are made to be broken.
Proverb

Promises and undressed cloth are apt to shrink.
Proverb, (Danish)

Promises are like the full moon: if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day.
Proverb, (German)

Promises don't fill the belly.
Proverb, (German)

Promises make debts, and debts make promises.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Promises make debts.
Proverb, (German)

Promises may make friends, but 'tis performances that keep them.
Proverb

Promises must not fill the place of gifts.
Proverb, (Latin)

Promises, like pie crust, are made to be broken.
Proverb

Promising and performing are two things.
Proverb, (Dutch, French)

Promising is not giving, but serves to content fools.
Proverb, (Portuguese)

Promising is one thing, performing another.
Proverb, (Dutch, German)

Property is robbery.
Proverb, (Latin)

Proportion your expenses to what you have, not what you expect.
Proverb, (English)

Prospect is often better than possession.
Proverb

Prosperity discovers vices, and adversity virtue.
Proverb

Prosperity forgets father and mother.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Prove thy friend ere thou have need.
Proverb

Proverbs are like butterflies, some are caught and some fly away.
Proverb, (German)

Proverbs are the children of experience.
Proverb, (English)

Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Proverbs are the lamp of speech.
Proverb, (Arabic)

Proverbs bear age, and he who would do well may view himself in them as in a looking glass.
Proverb, (Italian)

Provide for the worst, the best will save itself.
Proverb

Provide for the worst; the best can take care of itself.
Proverb, (Yiddish)

Provided a woman be well principled, she has dowry enough.
[Lat., Dummodo morato recte veniat, deotata est satis.]
Proverb

Providence assists not the idle.
Proverb, (Latin)

Providence crushes pride.
Proverb, (Latin)

Providence has not entirely deserted us.
Proverb, (Latin)

Providence is always on the side of the big battalions.
Proverb

Providence is better than a rent.
Proverb

Providence may delay, but punishment will come at length.
Proverb, (Latin)

Providence our herald, no barrier can oppose us.
Proverb, (Latin)

Providence provides but short horns for the fierce ox.
Proverb, (Latin)

Providence tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Proverb

Providential aid at a critical moment.
Proverb, (Latin)

Prudence and strength combined.
Proverb, (Latin)

Prudence availeth more than strength.
Proverb, (Latin)

Prudence is the charioteer of all virtues.
Proverb, (Latin)

Prudent men choose frugal wives.
Proverb, (German)

Prudent pauses forward business.
Proverb

Prying with sidelong glance into other people's business. [A busy-body.]
Proverb, (Latin)

Public money is like holy water, every one helps himself to it.
Proverb, (Italian)

Public reproof hardens shame.
Proverb

Puff not against the wind.
Proverb

Puffed goods are putrid.
Proverb, (Latin)

Pull gently at a weak rope.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Pulling the devil by the tail does not lead far young or old.
Proverb, (French)

Punctuality is the politeness of princes.
Proverb, (French)

Punctuality is the sole of business.
Proverb

Punctuality is the soul of business.
Proverb

Punishment awaits all offences.
Proverb, (Latin)

Punishment awaits crime.
Proverb, (Latin)

Pure gold does not fear the smelter.
Proverb, (Chinese)

Pursue that course which offers most advantages, habit will soon make it agreeable and easy.
Proverb, (Latin)

Put a beggar into your barn and he will make himself your heir.
Proverb, (Spanish)

Put a beggar on horseback and he'll gallop.
Proverb, (Irish)

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.]
Proverb

Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along.
Proverb, (Egyptian)

Put a stout heart to a steep hill.
Proverb

Put a stout heart to a stey brae.
Proverb

Put by for a rainy day.
Proverb

Put no faith in a drunkard's prophecy, another man's dog, or the weather at any season.
Proverb, (Darkovan)

Put not all your eggs into one basket.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Put not thy hand between the bark and the tree.
Proverb

Put not your trust in princes.
Proverb

Put off for one day and ten days will pass.
Proverb, (Korean)

Put out the fire betimes, ere it reach the roof.
Proverb, (German)

Put silk on a goat and it is still a goat.
Proverb, (Irish)

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Proverb

Put the belfry in the middle of the village.
Proverb, (French)

Put the light out, and all women are alike.
Proverb, (German)

Put up or shut up.
Proverb, (American)

Put your best foot forward.
Proverb

Put your hand in your conscience and see if it don't come out as black as pitch.
Proverb, (Dutch)

Put your hand quickly to your hat, and slowly in your purse, and you will take no harm.
Proverb, (Danish)

Put your money where your mouth is.
Proverb, (American)

Put your shoulder to the wheel.
Proverb

Put your trust in God, and keep your powder dry.
Proverb

Putting the cart before the horse.
Proverb

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