Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases Part 28

1268. POOR FOLK. Poor folk have few kindred.

1269. POOR FOLK. Poor folk are glad of pottage.

1270. POPE. He that would be Pope must think of nothing else.

1271. POSSESSION. Possession is nine points of the law, and they say there are but ten.

1272. POT. A little pot is soon hot.

1273. POT. The pot calls the kettle black.

1274. POVERTY. Poverty parts friends.

1275. POVERTY. Poverty breeds strife.

1276. POVERTY. Poverty is the mother of health.

1277. POVERTY. When poverty comes in at the door, friends.h.i.+p leaps out of the window.

1278. POVERTY. Poverty parteth good fellows.h.i.+p.

1279. POVERTY. Poverty makes a man acquainted with strange bed-fellows.

1280. PRACTICE. Practice makes perfect.

1281. PRAISE. True praise takes root and spreads.

1282. PRAISE. Neither praise nor dispraise thyself, thine actions serve the turn.

1283. PRAISE. Never sound the trumpet of your own praise.

1284. PRAISE. Praise a fair day at night.

1285. PRAISE. Old praise dies, unless you feed it.

1286. PRATE. Prate is but prate; 'tis money buys land.

1287. PRAY. He that would learn to pray let him go to sea.

1288. PRETTINESS. Prettiness makes no pottage.

1289. PRETTINESS. Prettiness dies quickly.

1290. PREVENTION. Prevention is better than cure.

1291. PREY. Birds of prey do not sing.

1292. PRIDE. Pride feels no pain.

1293. PRIDE. Pride will have a fall.

1294. PRIDE. Pride goes before, and shame follows after.

1295. PROCRASTINATION. Procrastination is the thief of time.

1296. PROMISE. He is poor indeed that cannot promise nothing.

1297. PROMISE. Be slow to promise, but quick to perform.

1298. PROMISE. Apt to promise, apt to forget.

1299. PROMISES. Promises are too much like pie-crusts, made to be broken.

1300. PROOF. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

1301. PROSPERITY. Prosperity gains friends, adversity tries them.

1302. PROUD MIND. There's nothing agrees worse than a proud mind and a beggar's purse.

1303. PROVERB. According to the old proverb.

1304. PROVERBS. Proverbs are the texts of common life.

1305. PRY. Pry not into other people's affairs.

1306. PRYETH. He that pryeth into every cloud, may be stricken with a thunder-bolt.

1307. PUDDLE. Every path hath a puddle.

1308. PUFF. Puff not against the wind.

1309. PULL. Pull gently on a weak rope.

1310. PULL DOWN. It is easier to pull down than to build.

1311. PUNCTUALITY. Punctuality begets confidence.

1312. PUNISHMENT. Many without punishment, none without sin.

1313. PURSE. Be ruled by your purse.

1314. PURSE. Let your purse be your master.

1315. PURSE. You cannot make a purse of a sow's ear.

1316. PURSE. A full purse maketh the mouth to speak.

1317. PURSE. He that shows his purse longs to be rid of it.