Proverbs starting with "P"

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• P1 To remember one's P's and Q's
• P2 He that stumbles and falls not mends his PACE (goes the faster)
• P3 Soft PACE goes far
• P4 He has brought his PACK to a fit speed
• P5 He has brought his PACK to a pack pin
• P6 It is a silly PACK that may not pay the custom
• P7 A small (little) PACK becomes a small (little) peddler
• P8 As plain as a PACKSADDLE
• P9 There is a PAD¹ in the straw
• P10 Go pipe at PADLEY (Colston), there's a peasecod feast
• P11 Make a PAGE of your own age
• P12 He thinks himself no PAGE's peer
• P13 As blake¹ as a PAIGLE²
• P14 I know by my PAIL who milks my cow
• P15 To come down by PAILFULS
• P16 Great PAIN and little gain will make a man soon weary
• P17 It is more PAIN (painful) to do nothing than something
• P18 No PAIN to¹ the gout and toothache
• P19 PAIN is forgotten where gain follows
• P20 Great PAINS but all in vain (to no purpose)
• P21 Great PAINS quickly find ease
• P22 PAINS are the price that God puts upon all things
• P23 PAINS to get, care to keep, fear to lose
• P24 Without (No) PAINS no gains (profit)
• P25 PAINFULNESS is something¹ eased by hoping for rest
• P26 As it pleases the PAINTER
• P27 A good PAINTER can draw a devil as well as an angel
• P28 PAINTERS (Travelers) and poets have leave to lie
• P29 On PAINTING and fighting look aloof
• P30 Better a fair PAIR of heels than die at the gallows
• P31 He shows a fair PAIR of heels
• P32 I would not touch him with a PAIR of tongs
• P33 One PAIR of ears draws dry a hundred tongues
• P34 One PAIR of heels (legs, feet) is worth two pair of hands
• P35 A PAIR of good spurs to a borrowed horse is better than a peck of haver¹
• P36 There went but a PAIR of shears between them
• P37 The straighter (higher) grows the PALM the heavier the weight it bears
• P38 He has the PALSY in his hand
• P39 As flat as a PANCAKE
• P40 PANDORA's BOX
• P41 Mock no PANNIERMAN, your father was a fisher
• P42 To stand to one's PAN PUDDING
• P43 To stand on one's PANTOLFLES¹
• P44 As soft as PAP
• P45 PAP with a hatchet
• P46 PAPER and ink cost money
• P47 He that will enter into PARADISE must have a good key
• P48 I would not be alone in PARADISE
• P49 A PARAGON of price (A peerless paragon)
• P50 PARDON makes offenders
• P51 PARDONS and pleasantness are great revenges of slanders
• P52 He will not part with the PARINGS of his nails
• P53 A mad PARISH must have a mad priest
• P54 Think not better of yourself than all the PARISH
• P55 He is too hasty to be a PARISH PRIEST (parish clerk)
• P56 The PARISH PRIEST forgets that ever he was clerk
• P57 Like a PARISH TOP
• P58 As tender as PARNELL, that broke her finger in a posset curd
• P59 As melancholy as a sick PARROT
• P60 To speak (prate) like a PARROT
• P61 PARSIMONY is the best revenue
• P62 PARSLEY before it is born is seen by the devil nine times
• P63 PARSLEY fried will bring a man to his saddle and a woman to her grave
• P64 It is good enough for the PARSON unless the parish were better
• P65 A Pancridge PARSON¹ (earl¹)
• P66 As happy as the PARSON's wife during her husband's life
• P67 Pinch on the PARSON's side
• P68 She is as tender as a PARSON's leman
• P69 To come home like the PARSON's cow, with a calf at her foot
• P70 PARSONS are souls' wagoners
• P71 Like the PARSON OF SADDLEWORTH, who could read in no book but his own
• P72 There or thereabouts, as PARSON SMITH says
• P73 The big PART of her body is her bum
• P74 For my PART, burn the kiln boldly
• P75 He may his PART on Good Friday eat and fast never the worse for ought he shall get
• P76 He that repairs not a PART builds all
• P77 It is the PART of a fool (It is a shame for a wise man) to say, I had not thought
• P78 Take PART of the pelf when the pack is a dealing
• P79 The worst PART is within
• P80 The PARTHIANS fight flying away
• P81 One PARTICULARITY concludes no generality
• P82 It is tedious PARTING with a thing we love
• P83 Praise at PARTING
• P84 As plump as a PARTRIDGE (plover)
• P85 If the PARTRIDGE had the woodcock's thigh, 'twould be the best bird that ever did fly
• P86 The absent PARTY is still faulty
• P87 Hear all PARTIES
• P88 It is hard to please all PARTIES (men)
• P89 At an ill PASSAGE honor thy companion
• P90 Bridle PASSIONS and be yourself a free man
• P91 You are not one of our PASTE
• P92 Hang yourself for a PASTIME
• P93 There never was a PASTON poor, a Heyden a coward, nor a Cornwallis a fool
• P94 PATCH by patch is good husbandry but patch upon patch is plain beggary
• P95 He cannot say his PATERNOSTER
• P96 He may be in my PATERNOSTER but he shall never come in my creed
• P97 PATERNOSTER built churches and Our Father pulled them down
• P98 To know it as well as one knows his PATERNOSTER
• P99 A PATERNOSTER WHILE
• P100 Every PATH has a puddle
• P101 Not to go forward on the PATH (way) of virtue is to go backward
• P102 He that can have PATIENCE can have what he will
• P103 He that has no PATIENCE has nothing
• P104 He that has PATIENCE has fat thrushes for a farthing
• P105 PATIENCE and shuffle
• P106 PATIENCE in adversity brings a man to the Three Cranes¹ in the Vintry
• P107 PATIENCE is a plaster for all sores
• P108 PATIENCE is a remedy for every grief (sorrow)
• P109 PATIENCE is a virtue
• P110 PATIENCE passes science¹
• P111 PATIENCE perforce
• P112 PATIENCE perforce is a medicine for a mad dog
• P113 PATIENCE provoked turns to fury
• P114 PATIENCE, time, and money accommodate all things
• P115 PATIENCE with poverty is all a poor man's remedy
• P116 Let PATIENCE grow in your garden
• P117 PATIENCE is a flower that grows not in every garden
• P118 What again? quoth PAUL when his wife made him cuckold the second time
• P119 As old as PAUL's (Paul's steeple, Charing Cross)
• P120 PAUL's pigeons
• P121 PAUL's will not always stand
• P122 To make PAUL's work of it
• P123 Fat PAUNCHES make lean pates
• P124 A fair (good) PAWN never shamed his master
• P125 He that cannot PAY let him pray
• P126 It is hard to PAY and pray too
• P127 He that PAYS last never pays twice
• P128 Once PAID never craved
• P129 An ill PAYER makes a sore craver
• P130 A good PAYMASTER (payer) is lord (master) of another man's purse
• P131 A good PAYMASTER needs no surety
• P132 A good PAYMASTER starts not at assurances
• P133 As small (big) as a PEA
• P134 Every PEA[SE] has its vease and a bean fifteen
• P135 Not worth a PEA (two peas)
• P136 As like as two PEAS (as one PEA is like another)
• P137 The smaller PEAS the more to the pot, the fairer woman the more giglot¹
• P138 Who has many PEAS may put the more in the pot
• P139 By PEACE plenty
• P140 He that will live in PEACE and rest must hear and see and say the best
• P141 He that will not have PEACE God gives him war
• P142 PEACE and patience and death with repentance
• P143 Where there is PEACE God is
• P144 Although I hold my PEACE I gather up stones
• P145 He is wise that can hold his PEACE
• P146 He that knows not how to hold his PEACE (tongue) knows not how to speak (talk)
• P147 He that speaks, sows, and he that holds his PEACE, gathers
• P148 Hold thy PEACE to keep the peace
• P149 Who can live and hold his PEACE can do enough
• P150 Better a lean PEACE than a fat victory
• P151 A disarmed PEACE is weak
• P152 PEACE is better than victory (war)
• P153 To make PEACE with a sword in his hand
• P154 An unjust PEACE is (is not) to be preferred to a just war
• P155 Blessed are the PEACEMAKERS
• P156 The PEACH will have wine, the fig water
• P157 As proud as a PEACOCK
• P158 The PEACOCK has fair feathers but foul feet
• P159 After a PEAR, wine or a priest
• P160 As rotten as a PEAR
• P161 Not worth a PEAR
• P162 The ripest PEARS fall to swine
• P163 Share not PEARS with your master either in jest or in earnest
• P164 Make a PEARL on your nail
• P165 Cast not PEARLS before swine
• P166 PEARLS are restorative
• P167 As pert as a PEARMONGER
• P168 PEASE POTTAGE and tawny never made good medley
• P169 They hang together like PEBBLES in a halter
• P170 To cry PECCAVI
• P171 For my PECK of malt, set the kiln on fire
• P172 To be in a PECK of troubles
• P173 Every PEDDLER thinks well of his pack
• P174 Let every PEDDLER carry his own burden
• P175 PEDDLER's French
• P176 As long as a Welsh PEDIGREE
• P177 Never inquire the PEDIGREE of a good man
• P178 In great PEDIGREES there are governors and chandlers
• P179 I was by, quoth PEDLEY, when my eye was put out
• P180 Play with your PEERS
• P181 I will take you a PEG (buttonhole, hole) lower
• P182 PEN and ink is wit's plow
• P183 PENS may blot but they cannot blush
• P184 PENDLE, Ingleborough, and Penigent are the three highest hills between Scotland and Trent
• P185 As old as PENDLE HILL
• P186 PENELOPE's WEB
• P187 To sit on PENNILESS BENCH¹
• P188 As clean as a PENNY
• P189 A better PENNY
• P190 Better PENNY in silver than any brother
• P191 Every PENNY that is saved is not gotten
• P192 Everyone has a PENNY for the new alehouse
• P193 He has not a PENNY to buy his dog a loaf
• P194 He thinks his PENNY (farthing, halfpenny) good silver
• P195 An ill-won PENNY will cast down a pound
• P196 In for a PENNY in for a pound
• P197 Lay your PENNY to mine
• P198 No PENNY no pardon
• P199 No PENNY no paternoster
• P200 One PENNY is worth another
• P201 PENNY and penny laid up will be many
• P202 A PENNY at a pinch is worth a pound
• P203 A PENNY for your thought
• P204 The PENNY in pocket is a good companion
• P205 A PENNY in purse will bid me drink when all the friends I have will not
• P206 A PENNY saved is a penny got
• P207 A PENNY spared (saved) is twice (twopence) got
• P208 A PENNY to serve one's need
• P209 Sometime a PENNY well spent is better than a penny ill spared
• P210 That PENNY (halfpenny) is well spent that saves a groat¹ (penny)
• P211 To turn the PENNY (an honest penny)
• P212 Who buys by the PENNY finds¹ not only himself but others
• P213 Who will not keep a PENNY shall never have many (a pound)
• P214 You may know by a PENNY how a shilling spends
• P215 Put two PENNIES (halfpennies) in a purse and they will draw together
• P216 A PENNY FATHER
• P217 To be PENNY-WHITE
• P218 PENNY-WISE and pound-foolish
• P219 A PENNYWORTH of ease is worth a penny in a man's purse
• P220 He pays him with PEN POWDER
• P221 PENSION never enriched young man
• P222 Among the common PEOPLE Scoggin¹ is a doctor
• P223 The common PEOPLE look at the steeple
• P224 Hasty PEOPLE will never make good midwives
• P225 He that builds on the PEOPLE builds on the mud (dirt)
• P226 He that serves the PEOPLE (commonalty) serves nothing
• P227 So I be warm let the PEOPLE laugh
• P228 The worst PEOPLE have most laws
• P229 You cannot make PEOPLE honest by an act of Parliament
• P230 Old PEOPLE's frisking does presage their ending
• P231 He takes PEPPER in the nose
• P232 I would I had as mickle PEPPER as he counts himself worthy mice dirt
• P233 PEPPER is black and snow white
• P234 PEPPER is hot in the mouth but cold in operation
• P235 To put PEPPER upon strawberries
• P236 To be PEPPERED
• P237 He is not PEPPER-PROOF
• P238 Hate not the PERSON but the vice
• P239 He has put off the PERSON of a judge that puts on the person of a friend (accuser)
• P240 To feel a PERSON's pulse
• P241 The PERSUASION of the fortunate sways the doubtful
• P242 PERVERSENESS makes one squint-eyed
• P243 There is no worse PESTILENCE than a familiar enemy
• P244 He robs PETER to pay Paul
• P245 PETER in and Paul out
• P246 PETER is so much God's that God gets him not
• P247 PETER of Wood, church and mills are all his
• P248 When you have a PETITION to make buy your paper of Mr. Humble
• P249 As red as a PETTICOAT
• P250 Near is my PETTICOAT (kirtle, coat) but nearer is my smock (sark)
• P251 PHILIP and Cheiny,¹ more than a good meinie²
• P252 To appeal from PHILIP drunk to Philip sober
• P253 PHILOSOPHERS must be captains (kings) and captains (kings) philosophers
• P254 It is the PHILOSOPHY of the distaff
• P255 The PHILOSOPHY of princes is to dive into the secrets of men, leaving the secrets of nature to those that have spare time
• P256 As rare as the PHOENIX
• P257 He takes PHYSIC before he is sick
• P258 He that lives by PHYSIC lives miserably
• P259 If PHYSIC does not work prepare for the kirk
• P260 Kitchen PHYSIC is the best physic
• P261 Deceive not your PHYSICIAN, confessor, or lawyer
• P262 He is a good PHYSICIAN who cures himself
• P263 He is purse-sick and lacks a PHYSICIAN
• P264 Honor a PHYSICIAN before thou hast need of him
• P265 An old PHYSICIAN and a young lawyer
• P266 The PHYSICIAN gleans and the lawyer reaps
• P267 PHYSICIAN, heal thyself
• P267a The PHYSICIAN is more dangerous than the disease
• P268 The PHYSICIAN owes all to the patient but the patient owes nothing to him but a little money
• P269 Piss clear and defy the PHYSICIAN
• P270 A pitiful PHYSICIAN (chirurgeon, surgeon) makes a deadly wound (sore)
• P271 They that are whole need not a PHYSICIAN, but they that are sick
• P272 Who pays the PHYSICIAN does the cure
• P273 A young PHYSICIAN fattens the churchyard
• P274 There are more PHYSICIANS in health than drunkards
• P275 The PHYSICIANS OF VALENCIA have long robes and little skill
• P276 To be in a sad (sweet) PICKLE
• P277 Purgatory PICKPURSE
• P278 To look like the PICTURE of ill luck
• P279 Painted PICTURES are dead speakers
• P280 PICTURES are the books of the unlearned
• P281 As merry as a PIE (magpie)
• P282 Fly at a PIE and catch a daw
• P283 Not too high for the PIE nor too low for the crow
• P284 Not too high for the PIE nor too low for the crow
• P285 To chatter like a PIE
• P286 Better no PIES than pies made with scabby hands
• P287 A good PIECE steel is worth a penny
• P288 He has a PIECE of bread and cheese in his head
• P289 A knotty PIECE of timber must have sharp wedges
• P290 A PIECE of a churchyard fits everybody
• P291 A PIECE of a kid is worth two of a cat
• P292 The worst PIECE is in the midst
• P293 You have gotten a PIECE of Kitty Sleitchock's¹ bannock²
• P294 He is all to PIECES
• P295 PIE LID makes people wise
• P296 As snug as a PIG in pease straw
• P297 As subtle (wise) as a dead PIG (sow)
• P298 As willful as a PIG, he'll neither lead nor drive
• P299 A brinded PIG will make a good brawn to breed on
• P300 The first PIG, but the last whelp, of the litter is the best
• P301 He has a PIG of the worse pannier sure
• P302 He knows not a PIG from a dog
• P303 I desire not a PIG with a bell about his neck
• P304 I will not buy a PIG in a poke
• P305 A PIG of your (my) own sow
• P306 A PIG plays on the organs¹
• P307 To stare like a stuck PIG
• P308 When the PIG is proffered (offered) hold up (open) the poke
• P309 The young PIG grunts like the old sow
• P310 Some cannot abide to see a PIG's head gaping
• P311 PIGS can see the wind
• P312 PIGS fly in the air with their tails forward
• P313 PIGS love that lie together
• P314 Where the PIG breaks let the shells¹ lie
• P315 Here is a PIGEON (goose, pig) so finely roasted it cries, Come eat me
• P316 The PIGEON never knows woe but when she does a benting¹ go
• P317 Shoot at a PIGEON and kill a crow
• P318 Full PIGEONS find cherries bitter
• P319 To take (catch) two PIGEONS (doves) with one bean
• P320 Witham PIKE, England has none like
• P321 To pass the PIKES
• P322 As plain as a PIKESTAFF (packstaff)
• P323 To speak out in PILATE's voice
• P324 PILGARLIC
• P325 To sugar (gild) the PILL
• P326 To swallow (digest) a bitter PILL
• P327 Bitter PILLS may have wholesome effects
• P328 To be tossed from PILLAR (post) to post (pillar, pillory)
• P329 To sew PILLOWS under one's elbows
• P330 He that takes not up a PIN slights his wife
• P331 He that will not stoop for a PIN will never be worth a pound (point)
• P332 He that will steal a PIN will steal a better thing (will be hanged for a pound)
• P333 Not to care a PIN
• P334 Not worth a PIN
• P335 To be on a merry PIN
• P336 To cleave the PIN
• P337 Hang PINCHING
• P338 A notable PINCHPENNY
• P339 The PINE wishes herself a shrub when the ax is at her root
• P340 To bring PINNOCK to pannock
• P341 The first PINT is the dearest
• P342 A PINT of wine to a vintner is but a pippin to a costermonger
• P343 I will make him dance without a PIPE (fiddle)
• P344 No PIPE no pudding
• P345 To put up one's PIPES
• P346 No longer PIPE no longer dance
• P347 He is an evil PIPER but a good fiddler
• P348 The PIPER wants mickle that wants the under chaffs¹
• P349 To pay the PIPER
• P350 As full as a PIPER's bag
• P351 PIPING HOT
• P352 She has broken her PIPKIN
• P353 One PIRATE gets nothing of another but his cask
• P354 The one cannot PISS but the other must fart
• P355 To stay a PISSING-WHILE
• P356 He falls into the PIT he digs for another
• P357 As dark (black) as PITCH
• P358 He that touches PITCH shall be defiled
• P359 To be spotted with one PITCH
• P360 PITCH and pay
• P361 To bang the PITCHER
• P362 Whether the PITCHER (pot) strikes the stone or the stone the pitcher (pot) it will be bad for the pitcher (ill for the pot, ill for the stone)
• P363 Small (Little) PITCHERS have wide ears
• P364 PITH is good in all plays but threading of needles
• P365 As great a PITY to see a woman weep as a goose go barefoot
• P366 Foolish (Peevish) PITY mars a city
• P367 He deserves no PITY that chooses to do amiss twice
• P368 It is PITY fair weather should do any harm
• P369 It is PITY to part three things: the lawyer and his client, the physician and his patient, and a pot of good ale and a toast
• P370 PITY is akin to love
• P371 It is better to PITY than revenge
• P372 He that PITIES another remembers himself
• P373 He quits his PLACE well that leaves his friend there
• P374 One may change PLACE but not change the grief (mind)
• P375 Sit in your PLACE and none can make you rise
• P376 To have a soft PLACE in one's head
• P377 To have a soft PLACE in one's head
• P378 To sing PLACEBO
• P379 Not worth a PLACK¹
• P380 To graze on the PLAIN
• P381 PLAIN DEALING is a jewel
• P382 PLAIN DEALING is a jewel but they that use it die beggars
• P383 PLAIN DEALING is best
• P384 PLAIN DEALING is dead and died without issue
• P385 PLAIN DEALING is praised more than practiced
• P386 Born under an unlucky PLANET
• P387 He that is born under a threepenny (three-halfpenny) PLANET will never be worth a groat¹
• P388 It rains by PLANETS
• P389 To be PLANET-STRUCK
• P390 Noble PLANTS suit not with a stubborn soil
• P391 To water one's PLANTS
• P392 As good as a PLAY
• P393 There can be no PLAY without a fool
• P394 The best PLAY on the board (at dice) is not to play at all (is to cast them quite away)
• P395 He who swears when he is at PLAY may challenge his damnation by way of purchase
• P396 The less PLAY the better
• P397 PLAY, women, and wine undo men laughing
• P398 It is no PLAY where one greets¹ and another laughs
• P399 When PLAY (game, jest) is best it is time to leave
• P400 PLAY with me and hurt me not, jest with me and shame me not
• P401 To PLAY fast and loose
• P402 To PLAY underboard
• P403 We should PLAY to live, not live to play
• P404 He PLAYS well (best) that wins
• P405 It is ill PLAYING with short daggers
• P406 No PLAYING with (It is ill to draw) a straw before an old cat
• P407 No PLEA¹ is best
• P408 After PLEASURE (joy) comes pain (sorrow)
• P409 Eat at PLEASURE, drink by measure
• P410 Fly the PLEASURE that bites (brings sorrow) to-morrow
• P411 For one PLEASURE a thousand woes (sorrows)
• P412 He that will have the PLEASURE must endure the pain
• P413 Never PLEASURE without repentance
• P414 PLEASURE and joy soon come and soon go
• P415 PLEASURE is not pleasant unless it cost dear
• P416 A PLEASURE long expected is dear enough sold (bought)
• P417 PLEASURE the rarer used the more commendable
• P418 Say to PLEASURE, Gentle Eve, I will none of your apple
• P419 Short PLEASURE long lament (repentance, pains)
• P420 There is no PLEASURE without pain
• P421 To woo is a PLEASURE in a young man, a fault in an old man
• P422 The PLEASURES of the mighty are the tears of the poor
• P423 Stolen PLEASURES are sweetest
• P424 He that has PLENTY of goods shall have more, he that has but a little he shall have less, and he that has right nought right nought shall possess
• P425 PLENTY is no dainty
• P426 PLENTY makes dainty
• P427 PLENTY makes poor
• P428 A gray PLOVER cannot please him
• P429 A Leicestershire PLOVER
• P430 Better to have one PLOW going than two cradles
• P431 He that by the PLOW would thrive himself must either hold or drive
• P432 If your PLOW be jogging you may have meat for your horses
• P433 Let (Never let) the PLOW stand to catch a mouse
• P434 The PLOW goes before the oxen
• P435 The PLOW goes not well if the plowman holds it not
• P436 He that lippens¹ to bon² PLOWS his land will lie ley³
• P437 To spoil a PLOWMAN to make a scholar of him
• P438 PLUCK not where you never planted
• P439 A black PLUM¹ (grape, raisin) is as sweet (good) as a white
• P440 Every PLUMMET is not for every sound
• P441 The higher the PLUM TREE the riper the plum, the richer the cobbler the blacker his thumb
• P442 As fearful as PLUTUS
• P443 A PLYMOUTH CLOAK
• P444 A PLYMOUTH CLOAK
• P445 He plays you as fair as if he picked your POCKET
• P446 He plays you as fair as if he picked your POCKET
• P447 Where POCKETS are full men will borrow
• P448 Everyone is not born a POET
• P449 A good POET an evil person
• P450 A POET in adversity can hardly make verses
• P451 POETS are born but orators are made
• P452 Poor POETS' heads are ever full of bees
• P453 The first POINT of hawking is hold fast
• P454 She has one POINT of a good hawk, she is hardy
• P455 He knows one POINT more than the devil
• P456 Not worth a POINT
• P457 One POISON expels another
• P458 POISON is hidden in golden cups
• P459 To hate (shun) one like POISON
• P460 It is kindly¹ that the POKE savor² of the herring
• P461 To stink like (worse than) a POLECAT
• P462 POLICY goes beyond strength
• P463 POLICY with his long nails has almost scratched out the eyes of religion
• P464 All our POMP the earth covers
• P465 Standing POOLS gather filth
• P466 Everyone is weary: the POOR in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning
• P467 He serves the POOR with a thump on the back with a stone
• P468 The POOR have few friends
• P469 The POOR suffer all the wrong
• P470 She loves the POOR well but cannot abide beggars
• P471 That which is given to the POOR is lent to God
• P472 Once POOR, seldom or never rich (Once unhappy ever unhappy)
• P473 POOR and liberal, rich and covetous
• P474 POOR and proud, fie, fie
• P475 POOR and proud, still tailorlike
• P476 As long as the POPE can finger a pen he can want no pence
• P477 The POPE comes by voices, the king by nature, the emperor by force
• P478 To go where neither POPE nor emperor can send an ambassador
• P479 To have a POPE in one's belly
• P480 A POPE's bull, a dead man's skull, and an old trull are not all worth a pound of wool
• P481 An old POPINJAY cares not for the rod
• P482 The PORCUPINE has darted out his quill
• P483 The PORPOISE (dolphin) plays before a storm
• P484 I know him not though I should meet him in my PORRIDGE (pottage dish)
• P485 A Rochester PORTION, two torn smocks and what nature gave
• P486 One POSITIVE weighs more than a score of negatives
• P487 POSSESSION is eleven (nine) points of the law
• P488 POSSESSION is worth an ill charter
• P489 The lame POST brings the truest news
• P490 As deaf (dumb) as a POST
• P491 As good speak to a POST
• P492 As good trust to a rotten POST
• P493 I understand you as much as the POST
• P494 You must kiss the POST
• P495 The earthen POT must keep clear of the brass kettle
• P496 He that comes last to the POT soonest wroth
• P497 A little POT is soon hot
• P498 A mean¹ POT played² never even
• P499 Neither POT broken nor water spilt
• P500 The POT walks
• P501 So long goes the POT (pitcher) to the water (well) that at length it comes home broken
• P502 There is no POT so ugly that a cover cannot be found for it
• P503 To a boiling POT flies come not
• P504 To go to POT
• P505 To make the POT boil
• P506 Touch POT touch penny
• P507 Your POT broken seems better than my whole one
• P508 Two POTS well filled are signs of a feast
• P509 I hate a POT COMPANION with a good memory
• P510 If it should rain POTTAGE he would want¹ his dish
• P511 If you drink in your POTTAGE you'll cough in your grave
• P512 Old POTTAGE is sooner heated than new made
• P513 Every POTTER praises his own pot
• P514 The POTTER envies the potter, the smith the smith
• P515 He will commit POULTRY
• P516 Come, everyone heave a POUND
• P517 In a hundred POUND of law there is not a halfpenny weight (an ounce) of love
• P518 A POUND of care will not pay an ounce of debt
• P519 What is a POUND of butter among a kennel of hounds?
• P520 A thousand POUNDS and a bottle¹ of hay is all one thing at doomsday
• P521 He that is in POVERTY is in suspicion
• P522 Neither be daunted with POVERTY nor lifted up with riches
• P523 Plain¹ of POVERTY and die a beggar
• P524 POVERTY breeds strife
• P525 POVERTY in surety is better than riches in fear
• P526 POVERTY is no sin (vice), but an inconvenience
• P527 POVERTY is the mother of all arts
• P528 POVERTY is the mother of health
• P529 POVERTY parts fellowship (good company, friends)
• P530 POVERTY (Luxury) wants many things but covetousness (avarice) all
• P531 When POVERTY comes in at the doors love leaps out at the windows
• P532 He should have a hale POW¹ that calls his neighbor nitty know²
• P533 To send (come) with a POWDER
• P534 POWER seldom grows old at court
• P535 POWER weakens the wicked
• P536 POWYS is the paradise of Wales
• P537 A POX on these true jests
• P537a PRACTICE what you preach
• P538 Faint PRAISE is disparagement
• P539 Old PRAISE dies unless you feed it
• P540 PRAISE by evil men is dispraise
• P541 PRAISE is the reflection (shadow) of virtue
• P542 PRAISE makes good men better and bad men worse
• P543 PRAISE to the undeserving is severe satire
• P544 Too much PRAISE is a burden
• P545 True PRAISE takes root and spreads
• P546 He PRAISES who wishes to sell
• P547 He that PRAISES himself spatters himself
• P548 He that PRAISES publicly will slander privately
• P549 It is not good PRAISING a ford till a man be over
• P550 PRATE is prate but it is the duck that lays the eggs
• P551 PRAY for yourself, I am not sick
• P552 He has much PRAYER but little devotion
• P553 PRAYER brings down the first blessing and praise the second
• P554 PRAYER should be the key of the day and the lock of the night
• P555 A short PRAYER penetrates heaven
• P556 PRAYERS and provender hinder no journey
• P557 PRAYERS like petards break open heaven gate
• P558 She is at her last PRAYERS
• P559 To say his PRAYERS backward
• P560 When PRAYERS are done my lady is ready
• P561 He PREACHES well that lives well
• P562 He that will not be saved needs no PREACHER
• P563 To be in the same PREDICAMENT
• P564 The PRESBYTER's wife had rather see her husband in his shirt than in his surplice
• P565 Do not make a PRESENT of a knife, for it will cut love
• P566 PRESENTS of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers
• P567 PRETTINESS dies first (quickly)
• P568 PRETTINESS makes no pottage
• P569 PREVENTION is better than cure
• P570 The PREY entices the thief
• P571 To shoot nigh the PRICK
• P572 No PRIDE like an enriched beggar
• P573 PRIDE and laziness would have mickle upholding
• P574 PRIDE but¹ profit, wear shoon² and go barefoot
• P575 PRIDE feels no cold (frost, pain)
• P576 PRIDE goes before and shame (ambition) comes after
• P577 PRIDE in the van, beggary in the rear
• P578 PRIDE is the root of all sin
• P579 PRIDE may lurk under a threadbare cloak
• P580 The PRIDE of the rich makes the labor of the poor
• P581 PRIDE will have a fall
• P582 When PRIDE is on the saddle shame is on the crupper
• P583 Like PRIEST like people
• P584 No PRIEST no mass
• P585 Such as the PRIEST such is the clerk
• P586 Such PRIEST such offering
• P587 To be one's PRIEST
• P588 PRIESTS and pigeons (doves) make foul houses
• P589 He whom a PRINCE hates is as good as dead
• P590 Of a new PRINCE new bondage
• P591 A PRINCE overgentle shall not long reign
• P592 To live (fare) like a PRINCE (king)
• P593 PRINCES (Gentlemen, Rich men) are venison in heaven
• P594 PRINCES have no way
• P595 To break PRISCIAN's head
• P596 It is an evil (ill) PROCESSION where the devil bears (carries, holds) the cross (colors, candle)
• P597 PROCRUSTES' bed
• P598 More PROFIT and less honor
• P599 No PROFIT to¹ honor, no honor to¹ religion
• P600 The PROFIT of the commonwealth should be preferred to a private pleasure
• P601 Thou mayst PROLONG it but not escape it
• P602 Great PROMISE small performance
• P603 PROMISE is debt
• P604 All PROMISES are either broken or kept
• P605 PROMISES, like piecrust, are made to be broken
• P606 Between PROMISING and performing a man may marry his daughter
• P607 PROMISING is the eve (vigil) of giving
• P608 The PROOF of the pudding is in the eating
• P609 PROOF upon practice
• P610 He that considers in PROSPERITY will be less afflicted in adversity
• P611 PROSPERITY gets friends but adversity tries them
• P612 PROSPERITY lets go the bridle
• P613 With PROSPERITY be thou not lifted up and with adversity be not cast down
• P614 Too much PROTESTING makes the truth suspected
• P615 PROVENDER pricks him
• P616 PROVIDENCE is better than rent
• P617 Pompous PROVISION comes not all of gluttony, but of pride sometime
• P618 PROVISION in season makes a rich meason
• P619 Great PUDDER¹ to small purpose
• P620 As fit as a PUDDING for a friar's mouth
• P621 Better some of a PUDDING than none of a pie
• P622 Cold PUDDING will settle your love
• P623 I love thee like PUDDING, if thou wert pie I'd eat thee
• P624 If ever you make a lucky PUDDING I shall eat the prick¹
• P625 If you eat a PUDDING¹ at home the dog shall have the skin
• P626 Not worth a PUDDING
• P627 PUDDING is no meat with you
• P628 There is a PUDDING in the fire and my part lies therein
• P629 To ride post for a PUDDING
• P630 To run as swift as a PUDDING would creep
• P631 Who is dull let him eat no PUDDING
• P632 You are he that did eat the PUDDING and the bag
• P633 PUDDINGS and paramours would be hotly handled
• P634 To come in PUDDING TIME
• P635 It is easier to PULL down than build up
• P636 Her PULSE beats matrimony
• P637 Like PUNISHMENT and equal pain both key and keyhole do sustain
• P638 Many without PUNISHMENT but none without fault
• P639 PUNISHMENT is lame but it comes
• P640 Win PURPLE and wear purple
• P641 Everyone is witty for his own PURPOSE
• P642 To as much PURPOSE as the geese slur¹ on the ice
• P643 To as much PURPOSE as to give a goose hay
• P644 To no more PURPOSE than to beat your heels against the ground
• P645 PURPOSING without performing is mere fooling
• P646 Be it better, be it worse, do after him that bears the PURSE
• P647 Better the PURSE starve than the body
• P648 An empty PURSE fills the face with wrinkles
• P649 An empty PURSE makes one wise, but too late
• P650 A full PURSE and a fat bribe command attention
• P651 A full PURSE makes the mouth to speak
• P652 He has left his PURSE in his other hose (breeches)
• P653 He that buys and lies shall feel it in his PURSE
• P654 He that shows his PURSE longs to be rid of it
• P655 A heavy PURSE makes a light heart
• P656 His PURSE is his best friend
• P657 His PURSE is made of a toad's skin
• P658 Let your PURSE be your master
• P659 A light PURSE makes a heavy heart
• P660 Open thy PURSE and then thy sack
• P661 The PURSE is threadbare
• P662 That is but an empty PURSE that is full of other men's money
• P663 To give one's PURSE a purgation
• P664 To line one's PURSE (coat, hand)
• P665 A toom¹ PURSE makes a blate² merchant
• P666 You cannot make a silk PURSE OF a sow's ear
• P667 Many PURSES hold friends together
• P668 He is at a forced PUT
• P669 Ill PUTTING (Put not) a naked sword in a mad-man's hand