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This resource includes the best-known proverbs in the English language from around the world with quotations that provide a history of each proverb. Discover the story behind "Never say never," "It takes one to know one," and "Once bitten, twice shy."
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pace: It is the pace that kills

parsley: Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil

past: Things past cannot be recalled

patience: Patience is a virtue

pay: He that cannot pay, let him pray

pay: If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

pay: Pay beforehand was never well served

pays: He who pays the piper calls the tune

pays: You pays your money and you takes your choice

peace: If you want peace, you must prepare for war

pearls: Do not throw pearls to swine

peck: A peck of March dust is worth a king's ransom

pen: The pen is mightier than the sword

pence: Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves

penny: A penny saved is a penny earned

penny: Penny wise and pound foolish

people: Like people, like priest

physician: Physician, heal thyself

picture: Every picture tells a story

picture: One picture is worth ten thousand words

pin: See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll have good luck; see a pin and let it lie, bad luck you'll have all the day

pitcher: The pitcher will go to the well once too often

pity: Pity is akin to love

place: A place for everything, and everything in its place

place: There's no place like home

play: If you play with fire you get burnt

play: Those who play at bowls must look out for rubbers

please: Please your eye and plague your heart

please: You can't please everyone

poacher: An old poacher makes the best gamekeeper

politics: Politics makes strange bedfellows

poor: It is a poor dog that's not worth whistling for

poor: It is a poor heart that never rejoices

possession: Possession is nine points of the law

postern: A postern door makes a thief

poverty: Poverty is no disgrace, but it is a great inconvenience

poverty: Poverty is not a crime

poverty: When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out of the window

power: Power corrupts

practice: Practice makes perfect

practise: Practise what you preach

praise: Praise the child, and you make love to the mother

pretty: Pretty is as pretty does

prevention: Prevention is better than cure

pride: Pride feels no pain

pride: Pride goes before a fall

procrastination: Procrastination is the thief of time

promises: Promises, like pie-crust, are made to be broken

proof: The proof of the pudding is in the eating

prophet: A prophet is not without honour save in his own country

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