Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
People with wax heads shouldn't walk in
the sun.
People working on the slope of a mountain
do not look at the buttocks of one
another.
People worry, and God smiles.
Peppa bu'n hot, but ih good fi curry.
Pepper burn hot, but it’s good for curry.
Pepper in someone else's eyes is a salve.
Pepper is black and hath a good smack.
Pepper is small but strong.
Peralvillo justice: hang a man first and try
him afterwards.
Perfect love cannot be without equality.
Perfect love casteth out fear.
Perfect love sometimes does not come until
the first grandchild.
Perfection anywhere is very rare.
Perform good deeds; you will not regret
them.
Perhaps no one has a finer command of a
language than he who keeps his mouth
shut.
Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but
rather openings where our loved ones
smile down to let us know that they are
happy.
Perhaps they are not stars, but rather
openings in heaven where the love of
our lost ones pours through and shines
down upon us to let us know they are
happy.
Perhaps you do not understand me because
you do not love me.
Perhaps you will eat a whole elephant and
nothing gets stuck in your throat, and
then you eat a fish and a bone gets stuck
in your throat.
Perhaps you will soon find another, and a
fairer, lover.
Perseverance brings success.
Perseverance can reduce an iron rod to a
sewing needle.
Perseverance is failing nineteen times and
succeeding the twentieth.
Perseverance kills the game.
Persevere and never fear.
Persevere like a bird in the wind.
Persist as resolutely as you persist in eating.
Persistence will accomplish more than force.
Persons unelated to you are pleased when
you are eating with them.
Persuasion is better than force.
Peter in, and Paul out.
Peter is so godly that God does not improve
his condition.
Peter pinches me, and I like it.
Petrafendola from Modica, Bread from
Ragusa, and olives from Chiaramonte.
Petty thieves are hanged, you take off your
hat to the big ones.
Pey-aforehand's never weel ser'd.
Pheasants are fools if they invite the hawk to
dinner.
Philosophy bakes no bread.
Philosophy means being able to explain why
you are happy when you are poor.
Phoenix feather and unicorn horns.
Physician, heal thyself.
Physicians' faults are covered with earth,
and rich men's with money.
Physicians rarely take medicine.
Pick and choose, and take the worst.
Pick the lesser of the two evils.
Pick up a sesame seed only to lose a
watermelon.
Pick your inn before the dark; get on your
road before the dawn.
Pick your wife in the kitchen.
Pierce the naggers tongue with a thistle and
you will hear no more complaints.
Piety, prudence, wit, and civility, are the
elements of true nobility.
Pigeon and chick, by your beak you attain
beauty.
Pigeons are taken when crows fly at
pleasure.
Piglia muglieri, ch affrinar. Maries-toi et tu
deviendras plus tempr.
Pigs and children will turn out the way you
teach them.
Pigs and Englishmen are kin.
Pigs are kissing: a year of acorns.
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