A List of Proverbs

This is A List of Proverbs beginning with P. Use a proverb from This List wisely in your writings and speech and make yourself brief.



• Penny wise, pound foolish.

• Pigs grow fat where lambs would starve.

• Plaster thick, some will stick.

• Practice makes perfect.

• Practice thrift or else you’ll drift.

• Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.

• Presents keep friendships warm.

• Prevention is better than cure.

• Pride and poverty are ill, yet often dwell together.

• Pride must (or will) have a fall.

• Pride goes before a fall.

• Procrastination is a thief of time.

• Punctuality is the soul of business.

• Punctuality is the politeness of princes.

• Put not your trust in money; put you money in trust.

• Put your own shoulder to the wheel.

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