Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Peace and patience, and death with
penitence.
Peace and tranquility are a thousand gold
pieces.
Peace does not make a good ruler.
Peace feeds, war wastes; peace breeds, war
consumes.
Peace gains a value from discord.
Peace is costly but it is worth the expense.
Peace is good for business.
Peace is only possible after war.
Peace is the well from which the stream of
joy runs.
Peace is worth buying.
Peace lasts till the army comes, and the
army lasts till peace comes.
Peace lasts until the army comes, and the
army lasts until peace comes.
Peace makes plenty.
Peace must be bought even at a high price.
Peace pays what war wins.
Peace with a club in hand is war.
Peace with a cudgel in hand is war.
Peace won't settle where a woman rules.
Peacock, look at your legs.
Pearls are of no value in a desert.
Pearls are worthless in the desert.
Pearls around the neck, stones upon the
heart.
Pearls of wisdom
Pearls of wisdom.
Pears and women are the sweetest in the
parts that are heaviest.
Pears, fill the chest; prunes, eat one.
Peccadillos at home, deadly sins abroad.
Peculiar people may show up anywhere.
Pedigree and ancestry and what we
ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely
recognize as our own.
Pee on the ruins before they build a temple
over them.
Peel a fig for your friend, a peach for your
enemy.
Peel the inner bark of the lime tree until it
peels.
Pemba does not run away fro a small
shower.
Penny and penny laid up will be many.
Penny is penny's brother.
Penny wise and pound foolish.
Penny wise is often pound foolish.
Penny wise, and pound foolish.
Penny wise, pound foolish.
Pens may blot, but they cannot blush.
People always make the wolf more
formidable than he is.
People are consumed by evil because of
keeping close to it, but not because of
keeping away from it.
People are enemies of that which they don't
know.
People are equal like the teeth of a comb.
People are for each other.
People are like chameleons; circumstances
make them change their colour.
People are like eels in the water, they
wander this way and that.
People are like grass in the field: some
blossom, some wither.
People are like plants in the wind: they bow
down and rise up again.
People are man's medicine.
People are people through other people.
People are slaves to charity/ good deeds.
People are the architects of their own
fortune.
People are the thing: if i call 'gold,' gold does
not respond; if i call 'clothes,' clothes do
not respond; people are the thing.
People aren't good unless others are made
better by them.
People blame themselves for the purpose of
being praised.
People can be done without but a lot of us
need a friend.
People can no more be judged by their looks
than the sea can be measured in bushels.
People come where people are.
People count the faults of those who keep
them waiting.
People count the refusals, do not count the
gifts.
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