Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Prison and Lent were made for the poor.
Private reproof is the best grave for private
faults.
Privateer, sail while you have a good wind.
Problems are in the bag.
Problems come in threes.
Problems don't seem so bad if you keep
cheerful.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Professionals built the 'Titanic,' amateurs
built the ark.
Proffered service is little valued.
Proffered service stinks.
Profit by the folly of others.
Profit is better than fame.
Profit is it's own reward.
Profit is profit even in Mecca.
Promise freely, fullfill sparingly.
Promise is debt.
Promise little and do a lot.
Promise little and do much.
Promise little but with respect.
Promised berries will not fill the basket.
Promises and undressed cloth are apt to
shrink.
Promises are like the full moon: if they are
not kept at once they diminish day by
day.
Promises don't fill the belly.
Promises fill no sack.
Promises have legs. Only a gift has hands.
Promises make debts, and debts make
promises.
Promises make debts.
Promises may make friends, but 'tis
performances that keep them.
Promises must not fill the place of gifts.
Promises, like pie crust, are made to be
broken.
Promising and performing are two things.
Promising is not giving, but serves to
content fools.
Promising is one thing, performing another.
Proof rather than argument.
Property gained unlawfully will be lost in
the same way.
Property is robbery.
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Property will not earn life, but life will earn
property.
Prophet copies a prophet.
Proportion your expenses to what you have,
not what you expect.
Prosperity discovers vices, and adversity
virtue.
Prosperity forgets father and mother.
Prosperity gets followers, but adversity
distinguishes them.
Prosperity improves one's personality, ad-
versity cripples it.
Prosperity lets go the bridle.
Prosperity makes freinds, adversity tries
them.
Prosperity teaches one, and poverty puts
one to shame.
Protect the flame of your candle and it will
light more.
Protect your brother's privacy for what he
knows of you.
Protest long enough that you are right, and
you will be wrong.
Proverbs are daughters of experience.
Proverbs are like butterflies, some are
caught and some fly away.
Proverbs are palm oil in which words are
eaten.
Proverbs are the children of experience.
Proverbs are the daughters of daily
experience.
Proverbs are the daughters of experience.
Proverbs are the lamp of speech.
Proverbs are the library of history.
Proverbs are the palm oil with which words
are eaten.
Proverbs are the people's wisdom.
Proverbs bear age, and he who would do
well may view himself in them as in a
looking glass.
Proverbs can be applied to get what you
want.
Proverbs cannot be contradicted.
Proverbs in conversation are torches in
darkness.