Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Pigs grow fat where lambs would starve.
Pigs grunt about everything and nothing.
Pigs in the cold and men in drink make a
great noise.
Pigs may whistle, but they hae an ill mouth
for't.
Pigs might fly lest they had wings.
Pilate was neither saved nor damned.
Pilgrims seldom come home saints.
Pills must be bolted, not chewed.
Pills must be swallowed without chewing.
Pin not your faith on another's sleeve.
Pissed off like a little squirrel with a frozen
pine cone.
Pissing in your shoes won't keep your feet
warm for long.
Pitch and tar are the navy seaman's pride.
Pith is good in all Playes.
Pith's good in a play.
Pity him who makes his opinions a
certainty.
Pity is akin to love.
Pity the man who does wrong and is poor as
well.
Pity the man who has a stranger's spancel
on him.
Pity the stranger, even if he is rich.
Pity without help does little good.
Places are God's; placemen are the devil's.
Plack aboot's fair play.
Plague seize the hindmost.
Plain oil cures every pain.
Plan your life as though you were going to
live forever, but live today as if you were
going to die tomorrow.
Plan your life at New Year's eve, your day at
dawn.
Plan your year in the spring, your day at
dawn.
Plans fail for lack of counsel but with many
advisors, succeed.
Plant each day and you will eat.
Plant rice when the ground is ready; pursue
women when you feel passion.
Plant the crab-tree where you will it will
never bear pippins.
Plant the seed of love in a neighbors garden,
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and see how quickly it grows.
Plant vines as long as you live and seed as
far as you see.
Plantain ripe, can't green again.
Plants oft removed never thrive.
Plaster thick, some will stick.
Play alone and you're bound to win.
Play not with a man till you hurt him, nor
jest till you shame him.
Play wid puppy, Puppy lick yu mouth.
Play with an ass and he will flirt his tail in
your face.
Play with an ass, and he will slap your face
with his tail.
Play with the fool at home, and he will play
with you abroad.
Play with your peers.
Play, play, with the beard of the father also
play?
Players of love must always be fair.
Playing with fire will eventually turn bitter.
Play's gude, while it is play.
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to
the soul and healing to the bone.
Please the eye and plague the heart.
Please the eye, and pick the purse.
Please your eye and plague your heart.
Pleasent words will draw the snake from its
hole.
Pleasure and pain succeed each other.
Pleasure for one hour, a bottle of wine.
Pleasure for one year a marriage; but
pleasure for a lifetime, a garden.
Pleasure is nonessential.
Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.
Pleasure is the bait of evil.
Pleasure is the greatest incentive to vice.
Pleasure often comes from pain.
Pleasures are shallow, sorrows deep.
Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.
Pleasures shorten tedious nights.
Pleasures steal away the mind.
Pleasures, while they flatter, sting.
Plenty breed pride.
Plenty breeds pride.