Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
The poor man commands respect; the
beggar must always excite anger.
The poor man eats at double cost.
The poor man has his crop destroyed by hail
every year.
The poor man has none to envy him.
The poor man is aye put to the worst.
The poor man pays for a'.
The poor man pleads, the judge listens.
The poor man seeks for food, the rich man
for appetite.
The poor man seeks only a crumb, then
finds he still hungers.
The poor man turns his cake and another
comes and takes it away.
The poor man wants much, the miser
everything.
The poor man's aye put to the warst.
The poor man's budget is full of schemes.
The poor man's corm always grows thin.
The poor man's proverb is never quoted.
The poor man's shilling is but a penny.
The poor must dance as the rich pipe.
The poor ones give their alms in a humble
way, the rich man throws them down
with contempt.
The poor sleep soundly.
The poorer you are, the more devils you
meet.
The poorer, the more generous.
The poorest payer is the best collector of his
own credits.
The poorest person in the world is not the
one without money but one without
vision.
The poorhouse is filled with honest people.
The poorhouse is full of honest people.
The poor-houses are filled with the
honestest people.
The pope and a peasant know more
between them than the pope alone.
The pope eats peasants, gulps gentlemen,
and voids monks.
The portion that a man keeps for himself is
usually not the smallest.
The position in which we were before the
war.
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The post of honour is the post of danger.
The pot always reveals its contents.
The pot boils best on your own hearth.
The pot calls the kettle black.
The pot of water falls from your head when
you have just reached the door of your
homestead.
The pot reproaching the kettle.
The pot telling the kettle it black.
The pot that boils too much loses its flavour.
The pot upbraids the kettle that it is black.
The Potato grows in silence, The iron
corrodes in silence.
The pot-lid is always badly off: the pot gets
all the sweet, the lid nothing but steam.
The potter drinks water from a broken jug.
The potter sleeps soundly, for no one would
steal clay.
The poverty of the gentleman is better than
the money of the poor man.
The power fellow will have another day.
The power of a leopard resides in its claws.
The power of the crocodile is in the water.
The power of the world always works in
circles.
The powerful are never faithful.
The praise of a thousand jesters counts for
nothing against the reprimand of one
wise man.
The praise of fools is censure in disguise.
The prayer of the chicken hawk does not get
him the chicken.
The prayer of the innocent has no wings.
The prayers of the wicked won't prevail.
The preacher must be like a chicken who
always has an egg in reserve.
The predator lands on an unknown tree.
The prepared beats the hardworking person.
The presence of the doctor is the beginning
of the cure.
The prettiest birds are in a cage.
The prettiest of shoes makes a sorry hat.
The price of a laugh is too high, if it is raised
at the expense of another.