1204. Pain. Pain is forgotten where gain follows.
1205. Pain. Great pain and little gain make a man soon weary.
1206. Pains. No pains, no profit.
1207. Pains. Pains are the wages of ill-pleasures.
1208. Painting. On painting and fighting look aloof off.
1209. Pardon. Pardon all men, but never thyself.
1210. Parents. Study to be worthy of your parents.
1211. Partridge.
If the partridge had the woodcock's thigh,
It would be the best bird that ever did fly.
1212. Passion. A man in a passion rides a horse that runs away with him.
1213. Patch. Patch and sit long, build and soon flit.
1214. Patience. Patience is a flower that grows not in every one's garden.
1215. Patience. Patience is a plaister for all sores.
1216. Patient. As patient as Job.
1217. Pay. Pay him in his own coin.
1218. Pay. Pay as you go.
1219. Pays last. He that pays last never pays twice.
1220. Payment.
They who don't intend to pay,
Will promise payment any day.
1221. Pearls. Cast not pearls before swine.
1222. Peas. He who hath most peas may put most in the pot.
1223. Pedlar. A small pack suits a small pedlar.
1224. Pedlar. Let every pedlar carry his own pack.
1225. Pen. Pen and ink are a wit's plough.
1226. Pence. Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves.
1227. Penny. That penny is well spent that saves a groat.
1228. Penny. A penny in my purse will bid me drink when all my friends I have will not.
1229. Penny. A penny in your pocket is a good companion.
1230. Penny. In for a penny, in for a pound.
1231. Penny. A penny saved is a penny got.
1232. Penny wise. Penny wise and pound foolish.
1233. Pepper. Pepper is black, yet it hath a good smack.
1234. Perch. The topmost branch is not the safest perch.
1235. Peril. Peril proves who dearly loves.
1236. Perseverance. Perseverance kills the game.
1237. Persuasion. The persuasion of the fortunate sways the doubtful.
1238. Peter. He robs Peter to pay Paul.
1239. Physician. Physician heal thyself.
1240. Physicians.
The best physicians are Doctor Diet,
Doctor Cheeriman, and Doctor Quiet.
1241. Pictures. Painted pictures are dead speakers.
1242. Pig's tail. You can't make a horn of a pig's tail.
1243. Pillow. Sleep on it; the pillow is the best counsellor.
1244. Pilot. Every man is a pilot in a calm sea.
1245. Pin. He that will not stoop for a pin, shall never be worth a point.
1246. Pin.
See a pin and let it lie,
Want a pin before you die.
1247. Pin. A pin a day is a groat a year.
1248. Pinches. No one knows where the shoe pinches so well as him who wears it.
1249. Pipe. He can ill pipe that wants his upper lip.
1250. Pitcher. The pitcher does not go so often to the water, but it comes home broken at last.
1251. Pity. Pity, promises, and blame, are always cheap and plentiful.
1252. Pity. Foolish pity spoils a city.
1253. Place. Sit in your place, and none can make you rise.
1254. Place. A place for everything, and everything in its place.
1255. Plain dealing. Plain dealing's a jewel.
1256. Play.
All play and no work,
Gives Tom a ragged shirt.
1257. Play. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
1258. Play. If you play with a fool at home, he'll play with you in the market.
1259. Please all.
He that would please all, and himself too,
Undertakes what he cannot do.
1260. Pleasing. Pleasing ware is half sold.
1261. Pleasure. Make not a toil of your pleasure.
1262. Plenty. Plenty as blackberries.
1263. Plough. Don't stop the plough to catch a mouse.
1264. Plough. A man must plough with such oxen as he hath.
1265. Plough.
He that by the plough would thrive,
Himself must either hold or drive.
1266. Poor. Do not live poor to die rich.
1267. Poor. As poor as Job.
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, friendship leaps out of the window.
1278. Poverty. Poverty parteth good fellowship.
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.
1318. Purse.
Be it better or be it worse,
Be ruled by him who bears the purse.
1319. Purse. A heavy purse makes a light heart.
1320. Purse. He who gets four pounds and spends five has no need of a purse.
1321. Purses (wrinkled). Wrinkled purses make wrinkled faces.
