Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Prettiness dies first.
Pretty calabashes sour the beer.
Pretty children sing pretty songs.
Pretty rose got macca jook.
Pretty wife, old wine -- many friends.
Preventing someone from falling is better
than helping him get up.
Prevention is better than cure.
Prices are forgotten, quality remains.
Prickly pear trees dont produce peaches.
Pride and dignity would belong to women if
only men would leave them alone.
Pride and dignity would belong to women if
only men would leave them alone.
Pride and grace dwell never in ae place.
Pride and grace ne'er dwell in ae place.
Pride and poverty are ill, yet often dwell
together.
Pride and poverty don't get along, but often
live together.
Pride and sweirnesse would have meikle
upholding.
Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with
poverty, and supped with infamy.
Pride can live in the dungheap.
Pride can only lose.
Pride comes before a fall.
Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and
cold.
Pride feels no pain.
Pride goes before a fall
Pride goes before a fall (Arrogance and
overconfidence often lead to humiliation
or disaster)
Pride goes before the fall.
Pride goes before, and shame follows.
Pride goes only as far as one can spit.
Pride goeth before destruction, and a
haughty spirit before a fall.
Pride in prosperity turns to misery in
adversity.
Pride is innate in beauty, and haughtiness is
the companion of the fair.
Pride is said to be the last vice the good man
gets clear of.
Pride is the last vice a good man gets clear
of.
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Pride is the mask of one's own faults.
Pride is the mask of our sins.
Pride is the mask we make of our faults.
Pride joined with many virtues chokes them
all.
Pride must (or will) have a fall.
Pride often apes humility.
Pride only goes the length one can spit.
Pride that dined with vanity supped with
poverty.
Pride that dines on vanity sups on
contempt.
Pride went out on horseback, and returned
on foot.
Pride will have a fall.
Pride's an ill horse to ride.
Priest on the outside, Satan on the inside.
Priestly knaves sweat hard at their meat, but
never at work get into a heat.
Priests and road signs show you the way
but don't go with you.
Priests and women never forget.
Priests bless themselves first.
Priests dressed in black bring bad tidings, in
white they take you to the cemetery.
Priests even smile pleasantly on young
women.
Priests pay each other no tithes.
Priests return to the temple, merchants to
the shop.
Priests should not prate out of the
confessional.
Priests, cousins and pigeons. The first two
are not good to marry. The Last two,
serve only to filth the house.
Priests, friars, nuns, and chickens never
have enough.
Princes have long arms.
Princes have long hands and many ears.
Princes keep good reckoning, they never
lose anything.
Princes use men as the husbandman uses
bees.
Princes will not be served on conditions.