|
|
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Yiddish)
|
A penny saved is a penny gained.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
|
A penny saved is a penny got.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
|
A penny saved is two-pence got.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
|
A penny spared is a penny saved.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
|
A penny spared is better than a florin gained.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
|
A pennyworth of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
|
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Native American Sioux)
|
A perfect whipping-top for changing sides.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
|
A person born to be a flower pot will not go beyond the porch.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Mexican)
|
A person changing his clothing always hides while changing.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Kenyan)
|
A person does not seek luck; luck seeks the person.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Turkish)
|
A person eating must make crumbs.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Sicilian)
|
A person is unlucky who falls on his back and breaks his nose.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
|
A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch
can't be saved.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (India)
|
A person who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the man
doing it.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
|
A person whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries
to swallow an elephant.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
|
A person with a bad name is already half-hanged.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Chinese)
|
A pestilence follows a famine.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
|
A pet child has many names.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
|
A picture is a poem wanting words.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
|
A piece of meat with eyes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Sicilian)
|
A pig bought on credit grunts all the year.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
|
A pig bought on credit is forever grunting.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
|
A pig on credit makes a good winter and a bad spring.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
|
A pig used to dirt turns its nose up at rice.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Japanese)
|
A pig's life, short and sweet.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
|
A pig's tail will never make a good arrow.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
|
A pitcher that goes oft to the well is broken at last.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
|
A place for everything, and everything in its place.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Italian)
|
A plank in a wreck.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
|
A plaster house, a horse at grass, a friend in words, are all
mere glass.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
|
A pleasant companion on a journey is as good as a postchaise.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (French)
|
A pleasant think never comes too soon.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
|
A plough that worketh, shines; but still water stinks.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Dutch)
|
A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin), also found in the Preface of Franklin's "Poor Richard" (1758)
|
A poor cask often holds good wine.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
|
A poor dancer will be disturbed even by the hem of her skirt.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Polish)
|
A poor man has few acquaintances.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
|
A poor man is all schemes.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
|
A poor man is always behind.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (American)
|
A poor man is hungry after eating.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Portuguese)
|
A poor man's joy has much alloy.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Danish)
|
A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (German)
|
A porcupine speaking to its baby says, "O my child of velvet."
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Afghan)
|
A Portuguese apprentice who can't sew, yet would be cutting out.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
|
A postern door makes a thief.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Spanish)
|
A precipice in front of you, and wolves behind you; that is life.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
|
A precipice is in front, a wolf behind.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Latin)
|
A pretty basket does not prevent worries.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: (Congolese)
|
