Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Paddle together, bail, paddle; paddle, bail;
paddle towards the land.
Paddle your own . . .
Paid work progresses slowly.
Paid workmen have no arms.
Pain is easier to endure than an itch.
Pain is forgotten where gain comes.
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.
Pain is only weakness leaving the body.
Pain mingles with pleasure.
Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.
Pain past is pleasure.
Painless poverty is better than embittered
wealth.
Pains and patience would take a snail to
america.
Painted flowers are scentless.
Painted flowers have no odour.
Painted flowers have no scent.
Painters and Poets may have leave to lie.
Palermitani, two tars for the bread drippings
and two grains for bread.
Palermo for its illustrious writers and
Messina for its harbor.
Palermo is a tolerant man, whoever goes,
goes and whoever comes, comes.
Paper and ink and little justice.
Paper bears anything.
Paper can't wrap up a fire.
Paper does not blush.
Paper endures all.
Paper is patient - you can put anything on it.
Paper is patient.
Paradise is under mothers' feet.
Paradise without people is not worth living
in.
Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.
Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
Pardons and pleasantness are great
revenges of slanders.
Parents and children teach one another.
Parents are teeth.
Parents are the first teachers of the children.
Parents can give everything but common
sense.
Parents can give their children everything
except good luck.
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Parents give birth to the body of their
children, but not always to their
characters.
Parents who are afraid to put their foot
down usually have children who step on
their toes.
Paris is owned by the early risers.
Paris was not built in a day.
Paris wasn't made in a day.
Parrots are green everywhere; the idiot loses
wherever he is.
Parsley seed goes nine times to the Devil.
Part with your head, but not with your
secret.
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
Partinico is a good town, good wine and
low costs.
Partir, c'est mourir un peu.
Partnership is an invention of the devil.
Partnership is good only with your wife -
and there are those who say this too is
not certain.
Party over, musicians by foot.
Pass by the place that was robbed with
confidence.
Pass by your enemy hungry but never
naked.
Pass off a fish eye for a pearl.
Pass oneself off as one of the Yu pipe
players in an ensemble.
Pass the bridge that your kinsmen have
passed.
Passed waters can't move the mills.
Passed waters don’t move watermills.
Passion and hatred are children of
intoxicating beverages.
Passion is of greater consequence than facts.
Past shame, past grace.
Pasta and macaroni, the hotter the better.
Pastors come for your wine and officers for
your daughters.
Patched trousers, healthy testicles.
Patching makes a garment last long.
Patience and forbearance make a bishop of
his reverence.