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PROVERB- Paddle your own canoe.
- Patience is a virtue.
- The pen is mightier than the sword.
- Penny wise, pound foolish.
- A place for everything, and everything in its place.
- Pleasant hours fly fast.
- The pot called the kettle black.
- Poverty is no sin.
- Practice makes perfect.
- Practise what you preach.
- Prevention is better than cure.
- The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
- The purse of the patient protracts the disease.
- Put the saddle on the right horse.
- Rats desert a sinking ship.
- Respect is greater from a distance.
- A rich man's joke is always funny.
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.
- Rome was not built in a day.
- The rotten apple injures its neighbors.
- Saying is one thing and doing another.
- Seeing is believing.
- Set a thief to catch a thief.
- Silence is golden.
- Slow and steady wins the race.
- Slow but sure wins the race.
- A soft answer turneth away wrath.
- Some are wise and some are otherwise.
- Some people cannot see the wood for the trees.
- Spare the rod and spoil the child.
- Speak the truth and shame the devil.
- Speech is silver, silence is golden.
- The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
- A still tongue makes a wise head.
- Still waters run deep.
- A stitch in time saves nine.
- The strength of the chain is in the weakest link.
- Strike while the iron is hot.
- Success has many friends.
- Per ardua ad astra.
- The pitcher goes so often to the well that it is broken at last.
- Possession is nine points of the law.
- Pouring oil on the fire is not the way to quench it.
- Praise makes good men better and bad men worse.
- Praise without profit puts little in the pot.
- Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Promises are like pie-crust, made to be broken.
- The proper study of mankind is man.
- A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country, and in his own house.
- Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
- Providence is always on the side of the big batallions.
- Punctuality is the politeness of kings.
- Queen Anne is dead.
- Rain before seven, fine before eleven.
- The receiver is as bad as the thief.
- The remedy may be worse than the disease.
- Revenge is sweet.
- The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
- A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
- Safety lies in the middle course.
- Second thoughts are best.
- Self-praise is no recommendation.
- Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
- Set a beggar on horseback and he'll ride to the devil.
- Share and share alike.
- The shortest way round is the longest way home.
- Silence gives consent.
- So many countries, so many customs.
- Sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
- Speak fair and think what you like.
- Speak well of the dead.
- The sting of a reproach is the truth of it.
- Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
- A straw will show which way the wind blows.
- Stretch your legs according to your coverlet.
- Submitting to one wrong brings on another.
- Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
- The sun is never the worse for shining on a dunghill.
- Sweet are the uses of adversity.
Try the Quiz : Proverbs for Teens : English Proverbs P-S