P.
. Be not an esquire where you were a page. Sp.
2. Make a page of your own age.
3. Whereyou were apage be not an esquire. For.
I. An hour of pain is as long as a day of
pleasure.
2. Great pain and little gain make a man soon
weary.
3. Great pains cause us to forget the small ones.
Ger.
4. He that is uneasy at ever so little pain is
never without some ache.
5. If pains be a pleasure to you profit will
follow.
6. Let pain deserved without complaint be
borne. Dr. Johnson.
7. Naething is got without pains but dirt and
lang nails.
8. Pain is forgotten when gain comes.
9. Pain is no longer p>ain when it is past
10. Pain makes even the innocent liars. Syrus.
If. Pain past is pleasure.
12. Pains are the wages of ill pleasures.
13. Pains make the heart golden. Get.
14. There is a pleasure that is born of pain.
(huen Meredith.
15. There is no pain so great that time will not
soften. Ger.
16. There is no remembrance which time does
not obliterate, nor pain which death does not put an
end to. Don Quixote.
17. Where a man feels pain he lays his hand.
DiOeh.
Palate.
I. There is no living with a man whose palate
has quicker sensations than his heart. Cato.
Papbr.— Paradise.— Parasite.— PARDONi
Paper.
1. Paper bears anything (or is patient). Fr.^ Ger.
2. Paper does not blush.
Paradise.
1. A good key is necessary to enter Paradise.
Itai.
2. For the pious, Paradise exists everywhere.
Bea.
3. He that will enter Paradise must come with a
right key.
4. One cannot enter Paradise in spite of the
saints. ItaL
5. Paradise is for those who command their
anger. Koran.
Parasite.
I. The parasite has no roots. Western Africa.
Pardon.
1. But they ne'er pardon who have done the
wrong.
2. He that sharply chides is the most ready to
pardon.
3. He who will not pardon others must not him-
self expect pardon. Seneca,
4. It is more noble to pardon than to punish.
Arabian Nights.
5. Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.
Arabian.
6. Pardon others often, thyself never. Syrus.
7. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
8. The very best men stand in need of pardon.
9. They tha^ have much business must have
much pardon.
1 06 Paris.— Parleys.— Parlor.— Park ASSUSi
Paris.
I. There is but one Paris. jp^^
Parleys.
I. The town that parleys is half surrendered. Fr.
Parlor.
1. All that is said in the parlor should not be
heard in the hall.
2. Your dirty shoes are not welcome in my
parlor.
Parnassus.
I. Parnassus has no gold mines in it
Parry.
1. There is a parry to every thrust
Partners.
I. When two partners are of one mind, clay is
into gold refined. Chinese.
Partridge.
I. The partridge loves peas but not those that go
into the pot with it Jolqfs{Afrka^
Party.
I. Party is the madness of many for the gain of
a few. Pope.
Passions.
1. Give me that man that is not passion's slave.
And I will wear him in my heart's core.
Shaks.
2. Govern your passions, otherwise they will
govern you. Horace.
3. He alone is happy who commands his pas-
sions. Horace.
4. He that overcomes his passions, overcomes
his greatest enemies. •
Passionate. — Past.
107
5. He whom passion rules is bent to meet his
death. Plautus,
6. He that shows a passion tells his enemy
where he may hit him.
7. Hence one master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent swallows up the rest.
Pope.
8. No man can guess in cold blood what he may
do in a passion.
9. Nothing is well said or done in a passion.
10. Passions are winds to urge us o'er the wave,
Reason the rudder to direct or save.
11. Regulate thy own passions and bear those of
others.
12. The end of passion is the beginning of re-
pentance.
13. The passions are like fire and water, good
servants but bad masters.
14. The ruling passion strong in death.
15. The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still. Pope.
16. We ought to distrust our passions even when
they seem most reasonable.
17. Where passion is high, there reason is low.
Passionate.
1. Passionate men like fleet hounds are apt to
overrun the scent.
2. Passionate people lay up no malice.
Past.
I. Not Jove himself upon the past has power.
Homer.
iQg Pastime.— Patch.— Patch-work.— Pater NosrifiaL
2. The best prophet of the future is the past.
Bynm.
Pastime.
1. One should make a serious study of a pastime.
Alexander the Great
2. Use pastime so as not to lose time.
Patch.
1. Patch by patch is good housewifery, but
patch upon patch is plain beggary.
2, The best patch is of! the same cloth. Sp.
Patch-work.
I. The defects are often better than the patch-
work. Ger^
Pater Noster.
1. A man may say even his paternoster out of
time.
2. He knows it as well as h\s pater noster. Sp.
3. Let those pater nosters be for your own soul.
{Ironical speech in reproof of swearing^ Sp,
Path.
1. A beaten path is a safe one. Latin,
2. A hundred paths present a hundred difficul-
ties. Chinese.
3. Better a path than a hole. Ger.
4. Every path hath its puddle.
5. The middle path is the safe path. Ger.
6. The path of duty is the path of safety.
7. The path of pain leads to Paradise. Ger.
8. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Gray.
Patience.
109
9. There is no royal path which leads to geom-
etry, Euclid addressing Ptolemy,
Patience.
1. A moment's patience is a ten-year's comfort.
M, Greek.
2. An hour's patience will procure a long period
of rest. Arabian,
3. An ounce of patience is worth a pound of
brains. Dutch,
4. Abused patience turns to fury.
5. All commend patience, but none can endure
to suffer.
6. At the bottom of patience is Heaven. Bomou.
7. Be patient and you shall have patient chil-
dren.
8. Be patient toward all men. New Testament,
9. Bear patiently what thou sufferest by thine
own fault. Dutch,
10. Beware of the fury of a patient man. Dryden,
11. Every misfortune is to be subdued by pa-
tience.
12. Every thing which is out of our power to
amend becomes more supportable by patience.
Horace,
13. Have patience, Cossack, thou wilt come to be
a hetman. Russian,
14. He that can be patient finds his foe at his
feet. Dutch.
15. He who endures with patience is a conqueror.
Latin,
no Patience.
1 6. How poor are they that have not patience.
17. Job was not so miserable in his sufferings as
happy in his patience.
18. No remedy but patience.
19. None patient but the wise.
20. Patience abused becomes fury. Latin.
21. Pati«nce and application will carry us
through.
22. Patience and pusillanimity are two things.
23. Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a
silk gown. Chinese.
24. Patience and time accomplish more than
force and violence. La Fontaine.
25. Patience devours the devil. Ger.
26. Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet
fruit. Ger.
27. Patience is a flower that grows not in every
garden.
28. " Patience is a good plant, but it don't grow
in my garden," said the hangman. Ger.
29. Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Bea.
30. Patience is a plaister for all sores.
31. Patience is good preaching. Ger.
32. Patience is pale cold cowardice in noble
breasts. Shaks.
33. Patience is so like fortitude, that she seems
either her sister or her daughter. Aristotle.
34. Patience is sorrow's salve. ChurchUL
tPATimCK.' I I t
35. Patience is the armor and conquest of the
godly. Charlutte Young,
36. Patience is the beggar's virtue. Massinger.
37. Patience is the best buckler against a£ronts.
38. Patience is the door of joy, Ger.
39. Patience is the key of Paradise. Turk.
40. Patience is ihe strongest of strong drinks, for
it kills the giant Despair. Douglas Jerrohl.
41. Patience is the virtue of asses. Fr.
4a. Patience, money and lime, bring all things to
pass.
43. Patience must sufFer pain. Dr. Johnson.
44. Patience opens all doors,
45. " Patience," said the wolf to the ass. Ital.
46. Patience surpasses learning, Dutch.
47. Patience, lime, and money overcome every-
thing. Ital.
48. Patience under injuries invites new ones.
Syru,.
49. Patience with poverty is all a poor man's
remedy.
JO, The herb patience does not grow in every
51. The patient man is always at home.
53. The remedy for hard times is to have pa-
tience. Arabian.
53- The world is for him who has patience. Ital.
54. Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will
plod. Shaks.
55. To wait and be patient soothes many a pang.
Dan.
112
Patriotism.
56. Verjuice with patience becomes wine, and
the mulberry leaf becomes satin. TltrJt.
57. What cannot be removed becomes lighter by
patience. Horace.
58. Who has patience may get fat thrushes at a
farthing apiece. JtaL
59. Who has patience sees his revenge. Jtal,
60. With patience and time, the mulberry becomes
a silk gown. Sp,
Patriotism.
1. A boot from my own country let it even be
patched. M. Greek.
2. A brave and generous mind will shun no
danger to save his prince and country. Turkish Spy.
3. A good citizen owes his life to his country.
Russian.
4. A patriot is a fool in every age. Pope,
5. And for a country 'tis a bliss to die. Homer.
6. In such an enterprise, to die is rather
The dawn of an eternal day, than death.
Byron.
7. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Johnson.
8. Patriotism must be founded on great princi-
ples and supported by great virtue. Bolingbroke.
9. Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.
Calhoun.
10. There is always a clinging to the land of
one's birth. Hans Andersen.
11. 'Tis sweet to die for one's country.
Pause. — Pauses.— Pay.
"3
12. True patriots we, for be it understood,
We left our country for our country's good.
Barringtan^ of the people of Botany Bay,
Pause.
I. Tis best to pause and think ere you rush on.
Byron.
Pauses.
I. Prudent pauses forward business.
Pay.
I. Good-will should be taken in part payment.
a. He is well paid that is well satisfied. Shaks,
3. He needs say nothing about the score who
pays nothing. Fr,
4. He pays for the glasses who breaks them.
Fr.
5. He that becomes responsible pays. Fr.
6. He that cannot pay let him pray.
7. He that payeth beforehand shall have his
work ill done.
8. He that pays last never pays twice.
9. He who cannot with his purse must pay with
his hide. Ger.
10. If you would have your work ill done pay be-
forehand. Ital.
11. Ill payers are aye gude cravers.
12. I will pay thee when fowls cut their teeth.
Kanuri or Bomou {Africa).
13. Once paid, never craved.
14. Pay as you go and keep from small score.
15. Pay day comes every day.
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Paymaster.
1 6. Pay him hame in his ain coin.
17. Pay promptly, collect closely.
18. Pay what thou owest and know what thou
hast. Ger.
19. Pay what you owe and be cured of your com-
plaint Sp.^ For.
20. Punctual pay gets willing loan.
21. Sair cravers are aye ill payers.
22. Soon paid is well paid. Ger.
23. There is no paying with an empty hand.
Fiddkig.
24. They take a long day that never pay.
25. To pay one in his own coin.
26. Who pays beforehand is served behindhand.
Ital.
27. Who pa3rs promptly borrows when he will. Fr.
28. Who pays well is master of others' purses.
Ger.
29. Who pays well is well served. Ger.
Paymaster.
1. A good paymaster does not hesitate to give
good security. Itai.
2. A good paymaster is keeper of other men's
purses. Sp.
3. A good paymaster ma^uild St. Paul's.
4. A good paymaster needs no security.
5. A good paymaster never wants workmen.
6. An ill paymaster never wants an excuse.
7. An ill receiver makes an ill pa3nnaster.
8. An ill servant will never be a good paymaster.
Peace. 1x5
9. Good paymasters need no security.
10. Great promisers, bad paymasters. Ger^ Dutch.
11. He who pays his debts betters his condition.
Ger.
12. He who pays is fairly entitled to speak his
mind. Fr.
13. He who pays well may borrow again. Ger,
14. Of an ill paymaster get what you can though
it be but a straw.
15. The worse the dun the worse the paymaster.
Ger.
Peace.
1. A cake eaten in peace is worth two in trouble.
2. A certain peace is to be preferred to an ex-
pected victory. Hannibal,
3. A deceitful peace is more hurtful than open
war.
4. A disadvantageous peace is better than the
most just war. Erasmus.
5. Better a lean peace than a fat victory.
6. Better an egg in peace than an ox in war.
7. Better an unjust peace than a just war.
8. Better cabbage in peace than sugar with
grumbling. M. Greek,
9. Better keep peace than make peace. Dutch.
10. By wisdom peace, by peace plenty.
11. From prudence peace, from peace abundance.
Ital,
12. He that will not have peace, God gives him
war.
1 16 Pbaci.
13. If princes knew to speak, and women to keep
silent, courtiers said what they thought, and ser-
vants to conceal it, the whole world would be at
|3eace. Chinese.
14. If you desire peace be ever prepared for war.
Latin.
15. In peace prepare for war.
16. Neither trust nor contend, nor lay wagers or
lend, and you'll have peace to the end. /Vr.
17. No one can have peace longer than his neigh-
bor pleases. Dutch.
18. One peace is better than ten victories. Ger.
19. Peace and a well-built house cannot be
bought too dearly. Dan.
20. Peace and patience and death with penitence.
Sp.
21. Peace in the village is bettei- than war in the
city. Ger.
22. Peace feeds, war wastes; peace breeds, war
consumes. Dan.
23. Peace flourishes when reason rules.
24. Peace has her victories no less renowned
than war. MUtan.
25. Peace is in holding one's tongue. Turk.
26. Peace is obtained by war. Nepos.
27. Peace is the father of friendship.
Bomou (Africa).
28. Peace must be bought even at a high price.
Dan.
29. Peace to his ashes.
30. Peace with a cudgel in hand is war. Par.
PEAR.--PEAIILS.— -Peasant. 117
31. Peace without truth is poison. Ger.
32. Peace would be universal if there were
neither thine nor mine. /ito/.
33. See, listen, and be silent, and you will live in
peace. ^^^'
34. They make a desert and call it peace. Tacitus.
35. When they have made the world a solitude
they call it peace.
Golgcuus the Briton referring to the Romans.
36. Who loves peace serves God. Ger.
37. You must ask your neighbor if you shall live
in peace.
Pear.
I. When the pear is ripe it falls. ftal., Ger.
Pearls.
1. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
New Testament
2. Pearls and precious stones are not good to
eat or drink. Chinese.
3. Pearls are like girls : they require much atten-
tion. Bea.
Peasant.
1. A rich peasant, like a shaggy dog, only keeps
himself warm with his money. Roumanian.
2. An ennobled peasant does not know his own
father.
3. ** At home," says the peasant, " I am king."
Ger.
4. Better a healthy peasant than a sickly king.
{Said by Ferdinand III) Ger.
5. Better a rich peasant than a poor nobleman.
Ger.
II g Pedigree. — Pen.
6. He who would cheat a peasant must take one
with him. Ger.^ Duich.
7. If the thunder is not loud the peasant for-
gets to cross himself. Russian.
8. It is easier to make a lady of a peasant girl,
than a peasant girl of a lady.
9. Peasant erect is taller than peasant on
bended knee. Turk.
10. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ;
A breath can make them as a breath has
made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride.
When once destroyed can never be supplied.
Goldsmith.
11. Set a peasant on horseback and he forgets
both God and man. Sp.
12. The peasant is a peasant though he sleep till
mid-day. Ger.
13. The peasant reaches heaven as soon as the
nobleman. Ger^
14. There is no knife cuts deeper, than a peasant
become a nobleman. Ger.
15. When a peasant gets rich he knows neither
relations nor friends. Sp.
16. When the peasant would become a nobleman,
he becomes a beggar. Ger.
^ Pedigree.
I. Who asks after the pedigree of a swine he is
to kill ?
Pen.
I. A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's
paw.
Penny.
119
2. Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword. Bulwer,
3. He writes with an iron pen. Latin,
4. Many who wear rapiers are afraid of goose-
quills.
5. Pen and ink is wit's plough.
6. Take away the sword,
States can be saved without it ; bring the pen !
Bulwer,
7. The lance never blunted the pen, nor the pen
the lance. Don Quixote,
8. The might that slumbers in a goose's wing.
9. The pen is a tree whose fruit is expression.
10. The pen is mightier than the sword.
11. The pen of the tongue should be dipped in
the ink of the heart. Ital,
12. The pen, that mighty instrument of little men.
Byron,
13. You need not get a golden pen to write upon
dirt.
Penny.
1. A bad penny always comes back. Ger,
2. A penny in my purse will bid me drink when
all the friends I have will not.
3. A penny in the pocket is better than a ducat
in the chest Ger.
4. A penny in time is as good as a dollar. I?an,
5. A penny is sometimes better spent than
spared.
6. A penny saved is a penny gained.
I20
Penny.
7. A penny saved is twopence clear,
A pin a day's a groat a year. Franklin,
8. A pennyworth of ease is worth a penny.
9. A single penny fairly got.
Is worth a thousand that are not. Ger.
TO. Account not that work slaveiy
That brings in penny savory.
11. An ill-won penny will cast down a pound.
12. Better a penny out of the land than a dollar
out of the sea. Ger,
13. Better one's own penny than another's dollar.
Ger.
14. Better penny in silver than any brother.
15. Better to-day a penny than to-morrow a dol-
lar. Ger.
16. Ducats are clipped, pence are not. Ger.
17. Every penny that's saved is not gotten.
18. He that does not save pennies will never
have pounds. Sp.
19. He that regards not a penny will lavish a
pound.
20. He who was born to pennies will never be
master of dollars. Dan.
21. In for a penny, in for a pound.
22. It is a good penny with which one gains a
dollar. Ger.
23. Lay thy hand upon thy half-penny twice be-
fore thou partest with it.
24. One cannot have a good penny with bad
ware. Fr.
25- One penny in the money-box makes more
noise than when it is full. Dutch.
26. One penny is better on land than ten on the
seas. Dan.
27. One penny with right is better than a thou-
sand without right. Ger.
28. Penny and penny laid up will be many.
39. Penny in poclcet is a good companion.
30, Penny is penny's brother. Gtr.
31. Fenny wise and pound foolish.
33. Put two pennies in a purse an' they'll come
thegither.
33. Take care of the pence and the pounds will
take care of themselves.
34. That penny is well spent that saves a groat.
35. That which is stamped a penny will never be
a pound. Dan.
36. The honest penny is better than the stolen
dollar.
37. The penny does not remain with a poor man,
38. The penny is the best companion in all lands.
Ger.
39. The smith and his penny are always black.
40. The smith makes more noise to earn a penny
than the goldsmith to earn a ducal. Ger.
41. The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous
pound, Ger.
43. There is no companion tike the penny.
43. There's no compassion like the penny.
44. 'Tis a good farthing saves a penny, Fr.
I20
Penny.
7. A penny saved is twopence clear,
A pin a day's a groat a year. Frankiin.
8. A pennyworth of ease is worth a penny.
9. A single penny fairly got.
Is worth a thousand that are not. Ger.
TO. Account not that work slaveiy
That brings in penny savory.
11. An ill-won penny will cast down a pound.
12. Better a penny out of the land than a dollar
out of the sea. Ger.
13. Better one's own penny than another's dollar.
Ger.
14. Better penny in silver than any brother.
15. Better to-day a penny than to-morrow a dol-
lar. Cr€r.
16. Ducats are clipped, pence are not. Ger.
17. Every penny that's saved is not gotten.
18. He that does not save pennies will never
have pounds. Sp.
19. He that regards not a penny will lavish a
pound.
20. He who was bom to pennies will never be
master of dollars. D€ui.
21. In for a penny, in for a pound.
22. It is a good penny with which one gains a
dollar. Ger.
23. Lay thy hand upon thy half-penny twice be-
fore thou partest with it.
24. One cannot have a good penny with bad
ware. JFr.
■
^^^ Fenny.
1
fS
One penny in the money-box makes
more _ 1
than when it is full. DuUA. ^
26.
One penny is better on land than ten
an the
seas.
Bau.
2^.
One penny with right is better than a
Iho^i-
sand without right.
Ger.
28.
Penny and penny laid up will be many.
ag.
Penny in pocket is a good companion.
30.
Penny is penny's brother.
Ger. -
3'-
Penny wise and pound foolish.
32-
Put two pennies in a purse an' they'll
come
thegilher.
33-
Take care oE the pence and the pounds will H
take care of themselves.
■
34-
That penny is well spent that saves a groat. H
35-
That which is stamped a penny will ne
erbe ■
a pound.
Dan. ■
36-
The honest penny is better than the stolen ■
dolla
I
37-
The penny does not remain with a poo
1
38.
The penny is the best companion in all lands. |
GtK ■
39-
The smith and his penny are always black. |
40.
The smith makes more noise to earn a
penny ■
than the goldsmith to earn a ducat.
Gtr. ■
41.
The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous B
pound.
G<r. m
41.
There is no companion like the penny.
■
43-
There's no compassion like the penny.
1
44.
'Tis a good fanhing saves a penny.
J
122 Perhaps.'-Perseverance.
45. What is not wanted is dear at a penny.
46. Who pennies has, has also friends. Ger.
47. Who will not keep a penny,
Shall never have many.
48. You may know by a penny how a shilling
spends.
Perhaps.
I. Perhaps hinders folk from lying. F^.
Persererance.
1. An oak is not felled at one blow. Sp*
2. Appeles was not a master painter the first day.
3. By slow degrees the bird builds its nest.
Dutch,
4. Great works are performed not by strength
but by perseverance. Johnson,
5. Link by link the coat of mail is made. Fr,
6. In time a mouse will gnaw through a cable.
Ger.
7. Many strokes though with a little axe.
Hew down and fell the hardest timbered oak.
Shaks,
8. Nine storied terraces rise by a gradual ac-
cumulation of bricks. Chinese.
9. Paris was not built in a day. Fr.
10. Perseverance brings success. Dutch.
11. Perseverance kills the game. Sp.
12. Step by step one goes far (or to Rome).
Ital.^ For., Dutch.
13. The repeated stroke will fell the oak. Ger.
14. There is nothing difficult in the world; the
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123
only fear is that men will be lacking in perse-
verance. Chinese.
15. 'Tis perseverance that prevails.
16. Troy was not taken in a day.
17. With perseverance one surmounts all diffi-
culties. M. Greek.
18. Zamora {a city of Spain) was not built in a
day, Don Quixote.
Persnagion.
- I. Persuasion is better than force.
2. Persuasion is the recourse of the feeble, and
the feeble can seldom persuade. Gibbon.
3. The persuasion of the fortunate sways the
doubtful.
Pertinacity.
I. I'll fight it out on this line if it take all
summer. U. S, Grant,
Philosopher, Philosophy.
1. A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to
atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's
minds about to religion. Bacon.
2. All that philosophy can teach is to be stub-
born or sullen under misfortune. Goldsmith.
3. Aristippus being asked what he learned by
philosophy replied, " To live well with all the world."
4. Beard and mantle do not make the philoso-
pher. Ger.
5. Many a philosopher is little honored till the
future prove his inspiration. Bea.
6. Philosophy teaches a knowledge of the truth
of things. Hegel.
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ir. T^ti0e ^ aiw^mg sr iMUji ss aot to hftTe
I. PzT ats Toc ^ B :!« ofaiSosofiiiet's
I. Too most let TQaTphBc;:^ sobdne jonr cboler
if TOO vonld not spoil joor basaies&
I. Tbe world belong to the pUegmatic. AtL
I. Pick-pockets are sore traders toar they take
readj-money.
I* A room hung with pictiiTes is a room hung
widi dKMigfats. Sir Joshua JteymMs.
I. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief
of decaying man. Rambter.
' 2. True piety elevates the spirt, ennobles • the
heart and strengthens the courage.
Pigeons.
z. Pigeons are taken when crows fly at pleasure.
PiGMiBS.— Pilgrims.— Pillow.— Pilot. 125
X. Pigmies are pigmies still though perched on
Alps,
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Voufiig^.
Pilgrims.
I. Pilgrims seldom come home saints.
Pillow.
I. Our pillow should be our counsellor. Latin.
Pilot.
1. A good pilot is not known when the sea isi
calm and the weather fair. Daii.
2. A mariner must have his eye upon rock and
sands as well as upon the north star.
3* A pilot is not chosen for riches but his
knowledge.
4. Every one can navigate in fine weather. Ifal.
5. Every pilot
Can steer the ship in calms, but he performs
The skilful part can manage it in storms.
DcnAam.
6. He steers his course by wandering planets
instead of the faithful pole. Petrarch,
7. In a calm sea every man is a pilot. Ger,
8. it is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather. .
Dan,
9. It is not in the pilot's power to prevent the
wind from blowing. Sp,
10. Reward not a sleeping pilot. Latin,
11. The best pilots are ashore. Dutch,
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Philosopher's Stone. — Phlegm. — Phlegmatic.
7. Philosophy triumphs easily over past and
over future evils but present evils triumph over
philosophy. Rochefoucauld,
8. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. Keats,
9. The new philosopher needs a new fool's cap.
Ger.
10. There is nothing so absurd as not to have
been said by some philosopher. Cicero,
n. "We two have much to think about," said
the louse on the head of the philosopher. . Ger,
Philosopher's Stone.
I. Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.
John Randolph of Roanoke.
Phlegm
I. You must let your phlegm subdue your choler
if you would not spoil your business.
Phlegmatic.
I. The world belongs to the phlegmatic. ItaL
Pick-pockets.
I. Pick-pockets are sure traders for they take
ready-money.
Pictures.
t. A room hung with picttires is a room hung
with thoughts. Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Piety.
I. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief
of decaying man. Rambler,
'' 2. True piety elevates the spirt, ennobles • the
heart and strengthens thie courage.
Pigeons.
I. Pigeons are taken when crows fly at pleasure.
Pigmies.— Pilgrims.— Pillow.— Pilot. 125
Pigmies.
X. Pigmies are pigmies still though perched on
Alps,
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Youfiig'.
Pilgrims.
I. Pilgrims seldom come home saints.
PiUow.
I. Our pillow should be our counsellor. Latin.
Pilot.
1. A good pilot is not known when the sea is.
calm and the weather fair. DaH,
2. A mariner must have his eye upon rock and
sands as well as upon the north star.
3. A pilot is not chosen for riches but his
knowledge.
4. Every one can navigate in fine weather. Ifal.
5. Every pilot
Can steer the ship in calms, but he performs
The skilful part can manage it in storms.
Denham,
6. He steers his course by wandering planets
instead of the faithful pole. Petrarch.
7. In a calm sea every man is a pilot. Ger.
8. It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather. .
Dan.
9. It is not in the pilot's power to prevent the
wind from blowing. Sp.
10. Reward not a sleeping pilot. Latin.
11. The best pilots are ashore. Dutch.
1 26 PiPKts.— Pi* ATES.— PicnntE.— PiitK.— Pin.
II. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest
does not attend the unskilful words of a passenger.
Sidney,
13. The paleness of the pilot is sign of a storm.
14. The rock makes the.pilot. Cingalese.
15. When there is no wind every man is a pilot.
>r.
Pipers.
I. Pipers don't pay fiddlers.
Pirates.
I. Pirates make cheap pennyworths of their
pillage.
Pictnre.
1. A picture is a poem without words. Zo/rVi.
2. A picture is a silent poem, and a poem a
speaking picture. Simonides.
3. Painted pictures are dead speakers.
Pike.
I. The pike grows big on small fry.
Pitt.
1. He who does not pick up a pin cares nothing
for his wife. Sp.
2. See a pin and let it lie, you'll want a pin
before you die. Fr.
3. The prick of a pin is enough to make an em-
pire insipid for a time.
Pine.,
I. The pine wishes herself a shrub when the axe
is at her root.
Pitch.
I. He that handleth pitch shall foul his fingers.
2. He that touchelh pitch shall be defiled there-
with. £idle.
3. He who handles pitch besmears himself. Ger.
4. If thou touches! pitch thou shah be defiled.
S- They that touch pitch will be defiled. SAais.
Pitcher.
1, If the pitcher knocks against a stone, woe to
the pitcher; and if the stone knocks against the
pitcher, woe to the pitcher. Sf.
2, Little pitchers have great ears,
3. Little pitchers have long ears.
4, The pitcher does not go so often to the water
but it comes home broken at last.
5. The pitcher goes often to the fountain, and
once not. JIf. Greek.
6. Whether the pitcher strike the stone or the
stone the pitcher, woe to the pitcher.
Pity.
I. Better be envied than pitied.
Fr., Hal., Dutch, M. Greek.
a. Foolish pity sfwils a city,
3, For pity is the virtue of the law,
And none but tyrants use it cruelly. Shaks.
4, He hath a tear for pity, and a hand as open
as the day for melting charily. Shaks.
5, He that hath pity on the poor lendeth to the
Lord. Bible.
6, He that pitieth another remembereth himself.
7, No beast so fierce but knows some touch of
pity. Shaks.
128 Place.— Plagues.— Plain Dealing.
8. Pity and need make all flesh kin.
9. Pity cureth envy,
to. Pity is akin to love.
11. Pity melts the mind to love. Dryden,
12. Prudent cruelty is better than foolish pity.
13. We have a great pity for a man who is ruin-
ing himself, but very little for one that is ruined.
14. Wherever we meet misery we owe pity.
Place.
I. There is a place and means for every man
alive. Shaks,
Plagues.
I. Who has no plagues makes himself some. ItaL
Plain Dealing.
1. Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that wear
it are out of fashion.
2. Plain dealing is dead, and died without issue.
3. Plain dealing is more praised than practised.
4. Plain dealing is a jewel but they that use it
die beggars.
Plain Speaking.
1. Call a spade a spade. Plutarch.
2. Figs he calls figs, a spade a spade.
3. " Never mind," said Philip, " the Macedonians
are a blunt people ; they call a spade a spade."
Kennedy's Demosthenes^ voL 1.,/. 249.
4. He hath been at London to call a strea a
straw and a waw a wall.
Planting.
I. He who plants a walnut tree expects not to
eat of the fruit.
Plants.— PLASTEk.— Play.
1^9
2. Plant near a vineyard, reside near a town.
3. Plant the crab tree where you will, it will
never bear pippios.
Plants.
I* Noble plants suit not a noble soil.
Plaster.
1. A plaster is but small amends for a broken
head. •
2. That is a prodigious plaster for so small a sore.
3. The bed is the best plaster for a wounded
foot. Ger,
Play.
1. An hour of play discovers more than a year
of conversation.
2. As good play for nothing as work for nothings
3. Gie o'er when the play is good.
4. He plays best who wins. Fr,^ Ger,
5. He plays you as fair as if he picked your
pocket.
6. If thy cast be bad mend it with good play.
7. It is best to play with equals.
8. It is not an art to play but it is a very good
art to leave off play. ItaL
9. It is well to leave off playing when the game
is at the best. Fr,
10. It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.
11. Play at small games rather than stand out.
Shaks.
12. Play not with a man until you hurt him, nor
jest till you shame him.
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Pleasx.
\
13. Play's gude while it is play*
14. The less play the better.
15. The play won't pay the candles.
16. We should play to live, not live to play.
17. What is play to the strong is death to the
weak. Dan.
18. What is sport to the cat is death to the
mouse. Ger,^ Dan.
19. What's play to you is death to us. {Fable of
thi boys stoning the frogs.)
Please.
1. He is not yet bom who can please everybody.
Dan.
2. He labors in vain who tries to please every-
body. Zatin.
3. He must be a sad fellow that nobody can
please.
4* He must rise betimes that would please
everybody. Dutch.
5. He that would please all and himself too,
Undertakes what he cannot do.
6. If you be not pleased put your hand in your
pocket and please yourself.
7. It is hard to please everybody. Dutch.
8. Jupiter himself cannot please everybody. Latin,
9. No dish pleases all palates alike.
10. One cannot please everybody and one's
father. Fr.
11. To please will always be the wish of benevo-
lence, to be admired the constant aim of ambition.
Dr. Johnson.
Pleasantry^— Pleasure.
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12. We cannot so act as to please all the world.
Petrarch*
13. He had need rise betimes who would please
everybody. Fr.^ Dan.
Pleasantry.
I. Pedants who proscribe pleasantry are like
cripples who decry dancing.
Pleasure.
1. A day's pleasure and a year's grief. M. Greek.
2. A man of pleasure is a man of pains. Young.
3. A pleasant thing never comes too soon. Dan,
4. A pleasure is well paid for that is long ex-
pected. ItaL
5. After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant
smarting. Dan.
6. After the greatest danger is the greatest
pleasure.
7. Cent per cent we pay for every vicious pleas-
ure.
8. Consider not pleasures as they come but as
they go. Aristotle.
9. Every one takes his pleasure where he finds
it. Fr.
10. Fie upon the pleasure fear can corrupt.
La Fontaine.
11. Fly the pleasure that will bite to-morrow.
12. Fly pleasure and it will follow thee.
13. For my own pleasure, as the man said when
he struck his wife.
14. For one pleasure a thousand pains.
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Pleasure.
15. From short pleasure long repentance. Fr.
x6. Hours of pleasure are short.
17. If you long for pleasure you must labor hard
to get it. Chinese.
18. In hawkSy hounds, arms and love for one
pleasure a thousand pains. Fr.
19. In the pursuit of pleasure the greatest virtues
lie neglected. Cicero.
20. Never pleasure without repentance.
21. No sensual pleasures ever lasted but for an
hour.
22. Of sinful pleasure only repentance remains.
23. One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
24. Our pleasures are imagined but our griefs are
real.
25. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men.
26. Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain.
Cowper.
27. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato.
28. Pleasure often comes from pain. Bulwer.
29. Pleasure should follow business. Bea.
30. Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome.
31. Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;
Or, like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever. Bums.
32. Pleasures are the baits of evils. Latin.
33. Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch.
34. Pleasure's the hook of evil. Massinger.
35. Pleasures while they flatter, sting.
Plxrbian. — Pledge. — Pi^nty.
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36. Say to pleasure, *' Gentle Eve, I will have none
of your apples."
37. Short pleasures, long laments.
38. Short pleasure often brings long repentance.
Dan,
39. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden,
40. That is a cursed pleasure that makes a fool.
41. The most delightful pleasures cloy without
variety. Syrus,
42. The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting
more.
43. The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain.
44. There is little due to pleasure but much to
health.
45. There is no pleasure but palls and all the
more if it costs nothing. Sp,
46. True grandeur is to govern our passions and
true pleasure to enjoy ourselves. La Fontaine,
Plebeian.
I. It is dangerous for a plebeian to gmmble in
public. Syrus,
Pledge.
1. Beware of a pledge that eats. For,
2. He has a good pledge of the cat who has her
skin. Fr,
3. Of the good man a good pledge and of the
bad neither pledge nor surety. For,
Plenty.
1. It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is
necessary^
2. Plenty is dainty.
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Pleasure.
15. From short pleasure long repentance. Fr.
x6. Hours of pleasure are short.
17. If you long for pleasure you must labor hard
to get it. Chinese.
18. In hawkSy hounds, arms and love for one
pleasure a thousand pains. Fr.
19. In the pursuit of pleasure the greatest virtues
lie neglected. Cicero,
20. Never pleasure without repentance.
21. No sensual pleasures ever lasted but for an
hour.
22. Of sinful pleasure only repentance remains.
23. One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
24. Our pleasures are imagined but our griefs are
real.
25. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men.
26. Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain.
Cowper.
27. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato.
28. Pleasure often comes from pain. Bulwer.
29. Pleasure should follow business. Bea.
30. Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome.
31. Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;
Or, like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever. Bums.
32. Pleasures are the baits of evils. Latin.
33. Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch,
34. Pleasure's the hook of evil. Massinger.
35. Pleasures while they flatter, sting.
mim
Pleb bian. — Pledge. — Plenty.
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36. Say to pleasure, ** Gentle Eve, I will have none
erf your apples."
37. Short pleasures, long laments.
38. Short pleasure often brings long repentance.
39. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden,
40. That is a cursed pleasure that makes a fool.
41. The most delightful pleasures cloy without
variety. Syrus,
42. The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting
more.
43. The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain.
44. There is little due to pleasure but much to
health.
45. There is no pleasure but palls and all the
more if it costs nothing. Sp,
46. True grandeur is to govern our passions and
true pleasure to enjoy ourselves. La Fontaine,
Plebeian.
I. It is dangerous for a plebeian to gnimble in
public. Syrus,
Pledge.
1. Beware of a pledge that eats. For,
2. He has a good pledge of the cat who has her
skin. Fr,
3. Of the good man a good pledge and of the
bad neither pledge nor surety. For,
Plenty.
i. It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is
necessary^ ;
2. Plenty is dainty.
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Pleasure.
15. From short pleasure long repentance. Fr,
x6. Hours of pleasure are short.
17. If you long for pleasure you must labor hard
to get it. Chinese.
18. In hawkSy hounds, arms and love for one
pleasure a thousand pains. Fr.
19. In the pursuit of pleasure the greatest virtues
lie neglected. Cicero.
20. Never pleasure without repentance.
21. No sensual pleasures ever lasted but for an
hour.
22. Of sinful pleasure only repentance remains.
23. One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
24. Our pleasures are imagined but our griefs are
real.
25. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men.
26. Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain.
Cowper.
27. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato.
28. Pleasure often comes from pain. Bulwer.
29. Pleasure should follow business. Bea.
30. Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome.
31. Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;
Or, like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever. Bums.
32. Pleasures are the baits of evils. Latin.
33. Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch.
34. Pleasure's the hook of evil. Massinger.
35. Pleasures while they flatter, sting.
Pl^ EI an . — Pledg e. — Plenty.
133
36. Say to pleasure, *' Gentle Eve, I will have none
of your apples."
37. Short pleasures, long laments.
38. Short pleasure often brings long repentance.
Dan.
39. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden,
40. That is a cursed pleasure that makes a fool.
41. The most delightful pleasures cloy without
variety. Syrus,
42. The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting
more.
43. The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain.
44. There is little due to pleasure but much to
health.
45. There is no pleasure but palls and all the
more if it costs nothing. Sp,
46. True grandeur is to govern our passions and
true pleasure to enjoy ourselves. La Fontaine,
Plebeian.
I. It is dangerous for a plebeian to gnimble in
public. Syrus,
Pledge.
1. Beware of a pledge that eats. For,
2. He has a good pledge of the cat who has her
skin. Fr.
3. Of the good man a good pledge and of ^he
bad neither pledge nor surety. For.
Plenty.
1. It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is
necessary^ ;
2. Plenty is dainty.
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Plot.— Plough, Ploughing.
Plot.
1. A mischievous plot may produce a good end.
2. A tragical plot may produce a comical con-
clusion.
3. Who cannot be crushed by a plot. Shaks.
Plough, Ploughing.
1. A plough that worketh shines, but still water
stinks. Dutch.
2. An ox and an ass don't yoke well to the
same plough. Dutch,
3. De plough pint is close kin to de meal bag.
American Negro.
4. Drive not too many ploughs at once ; some
will make foul work.
5. He that would by the plough thrive.
Himself must either hold or drive.
6. He who ploughs with young oxen makes
crooked furrows. Ger.
7. If your plough be jogging, you may have
meat for your horses.
8. Ne'er put the plough afore the owsen.
9. Plough deep and you will have plenty of
corn. Sf.
10. Plough deep while sluggards sleep,
And you will have corn to sell and keep.
11. Plough or not plough you must pay your rent.
Sp.
12. Take care of your plough and your plough
will take care of you. Ger.
13. The plough goes not well if the ploughman
hold it not.
Po»M.—Po«T.— Poetry.— PowoK. 1 3 5
Poem.
I. Let your poem be kept nine years. Horace.
Poet.
1. God has chosen a poet generally when he has
a message to give.
2. It is not good to be the poet of a village. Ger.
3. Ne'er
Was flattery lost on poet's ear,
A simple race, they waste their toil
For the vain tribute of a smile. Scott.
4. Poets are bom, but orators are made.
5. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of
the world. Bea.
6. The poet is bom, not made. (JPoeta tuzcitur,
notfit.)
7. The poet of all sorts of artificers is proudest
of his work.
8. Those who are poets can make soup of
sausage skewers. Hans Andersen.
9. To a poet even a rush may be vocal. 7\irk.
1. Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows,
and of lending existence to nothing. Burke.
2. There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know. Cowper.
Poison.
1. Poison and the dagger are the Eastern bill of
rights.
2. Poison quells poison. Jtal.
3. Poison still is poison though drunk in gold.
Massmger.
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Pleasure.
15. From short pleasure long repentance. Fr.
i6. Hours of pleasure are short.
17. If you long for pleasure you must labor hard
to get it. Chinese.
18. In hawks, hounds, arms and love for one
pleasure a thousand pains. Fr.
19. In the pursuit of pleasure the greatest virtues
lie neglected. Cicero,
20. Never pleasure without repentance.
21. No sensual pleasures ever lasted but for an
hour.
22. Of sinful pleasure only repentance remains.
23. One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
24. Our pleasures are imagined but our griefs are
real.
25. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men.
26. Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain.
Cowper,
27. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato,
28. Pleasure often comes from pain. Bulwer.
29. Pleasure should follow business. Bea,
30. Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome.
31. Pleasures are like p>oppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;
Or, like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever. Bums.
32. Pleasures are the baits of evils. Latin.
33. Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch.
34. Pleasure's the hook of evil. Massinger.
35. Pleasures while they flatter, sting.
Plebeian. — Pledge. — Plenty.
133
36. Say to pleasure, ** Gentle Eve, I will have none
of your apples."
37. Short pleasures, long laments.
38. Short pleasure often brings long repentance.
Dan,
39. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden,
40. That is a cursed pleasure that makes a fool.
41. The most delightful pleasures cloy without
variety. Syrus,
42. The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting
more.
43. The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain.
44. There is little due to pleasure but much to
health.
45. There is no pleasure but palls and all the
more if it costs nothing. Sp,
46. True grandeur is to govern our passions and
true pleasure to enjoy ourselves. La Fontaine,
Plebeian.
I. It is dangerous for a plebeian to gnimble in
public. Syrus,
Pledge.
1. Beware of a pledge that eats. For,
2. He has a good pledge of the cat who has her
skin. Fr,
3. Of the good man a good pledge and of the
bad neither pledge nor surety. For,
Plenty.
1. It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is
necessarv,
2. Plenty is dainty.
mm
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Plot.— Plough, Ploughing.
Plot.
1. A mischievous plot may produce a good end.
2. A tragical plot may produce a comical con-
clusion.
3. Who cannot be crushed by a plot. SAaks.
Plough, Ploughing.
1. A plough that worketh shines, but still water
stinks. Dutch.
2. An ox and an ass don't yoke well to the
same plough. Dutch.
3. De plough pint is close kin to de meal bag.
American Negro.
4. Drive not too many ploughs at once ; some
will make foul work.
5. He that would by the plough thrive.
Himself must either hold or drive.
6. He who ploughs with young oxen makes
crooked furrows. Gcr.
7. If your plough be jogging, you may have
meat for your horses.
8. Ne'er put the plough afore the owsen.
9. Plough deep and you will have plenty of
com. Sp,
10. Plough deep while sluggards sleep,
And you will have corn to sell and keep.
11. Plough or not plough you must pay your rent.
Sp.
12. Take care of your plough and your plough
will take care of you. Ger.
13. The plough goes not well if the ploughman
hold it not.
PoKM. — Poet. — Pobtrv. — Poison. | jc
. Let your poem be kept nine years. Horace.
1. God has chosen a poet geneTally when he has
a message to give.
2. It is not good to be the poet of a village. Ger,
3. Ne'er
Was flattery lost on poet's ear,
A simple race, they waste their toil
For the vain tribute of a smile. Seett.
4. Poets are born, but orators are made.
5. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of
the world, Bea.
6. The poet is bom, not made. (Poeta nacitur,
m,tjit.)
7. The poet of all sorts of artificers is proudest
of his work.
8. Those who are poets can make soup of
sausage skewers. Ham Andersen.
9. To a poet even a rush may be vocal. Jiirk.
Poetry.
I. Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows,
and of lending existence to nothing. Burke.
3, There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know, Cowper.
I. Poison and the dagger are the Eastern bill of
rights.
z. Poison quells poison. Itai.
3. Poison still is poison though drunk in gold.
Matsmger,
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PouL— Policy. — Pouteness.
4. The antidote before the poison. {To offer an
excuse before an €tccusatian^ . . s Latin,
5. What does not poison, fattens. ItaL
6. What's one man's poison, Signor,
Is another's meat or drink.
Beautnont and Fletcher.
% Pole.
I. A Pole would rather steal a horse on Sunday
than eat butter or milk on Friday. Ger,
Policy.
1 . Policy goes beyond strength. Fr.
2. Policy may be virtuous as well as vicious.
Politeness.
1. A hunchback making a bow. {Excessive
politeness^ Chinese^
2. A civil denial is better than a rude grant
3. Hat in hand goes through the land. Ger,
4. Politeness is benevolence in small things.
Macaulay.
^ 5. To be truly polite remember you must be
polite at all times and under all circumstances.
6. A man without ceremony had need of great
merit in its place.
7. After the land's manner is mannerly. Dutch.
8. As charity covers a multitude of sins before
God, so does politeness before men. Greville.
9. At Ron^e do as Rome does.
10. Cap in hand never did any harm. Ital.
% II. One never loseth anything by politeness.
12, One outward civility is current pay for
another.
PouTiciANS. — Politics.— Ponder. — Pools. — Poor, i yj
Politicians.
1. Old politicians chew on wisdom past. Pope.
2. Politicians never love nor hate. Chesterfield.
Politics.
1. In p>olitics nothing is contemptible. Bea,
2. There are no miracles in politiq/s. Maga.
Ponder.
I. Ponder long before you act.
Pools.
I. Standing pools gather filth.
Poor.
1. A fallen rich man may make a good master,
but not an enriched poor man. Ital.
2. A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to
the rich.
3. A north wind has no com and a poor man no
friend. Sp.
. 4. A poor man can gain nothing by contending
with the great. Cingalese,
5. A poor man has few acquaintances. Dan.
6. A poor man has no friends. Ashantees {Africa).
7. A poor man has not many marks for fortune
to shoot at.
8. A poor man is all schemes. Sp.
9. A poor man is hungry after eating. Por.
10. A poor man's joy has much alloy. Dan.
11. A poor man's shilling is but a penny.
12. A poor man wants something, a covetous
man all things.
13. A poor man's debt makes a great noise.
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Poor.
14. A ragged sack holds no grain, a poor man is
not taken into counsel. Ital.
15. As long as there are some poorer than you,
praise God even if you are unshod. Gipsy.
16. Be considerate toward the poor.
17. For poor people, small coin.
18. Every poor man is counted a fool.
19. He is not poor that hath not much, but ^ he
that craves much.
20. He is not poor who has a competency. Hotkue.
21. He is poor indeed who can promise nothing.
22. He is too poor to buy a rope to hang himself.
Gir.
23. He who devours the substance of the poor,
will find at length a bone to choke him. Fr.
24. If poor, act with caution.
25. Look on the poor with gentle eyes, for in
such habits often angels desire alms. M<issinger.
26. Much wisdom is lost in poor men's mouths.
Ger.
27. Much wisdom b smothered in a poor man's
head. Dutch.
28. Much wit is lost in a poor man's purse. Gir.
29. No one is poor but he who thinks himself so.
Par.
30. No one so hard upon the poor as the pauper
who has got into power. Dan.
31. Not he who has little, but he who wishes for
more, is poor. Seneca.
32. Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
Shaks.
Poor. 1 3g
33. Poor folks are glad of pottafe.
34. Poor folks say " ihank you " for a little,
35. Poor folk's wisdom goes for little. Dutch.
36. Poor men do penance for rich men's sins. Ital.
37. Poor men have no souls. {So think the rich.)
38. Poor men seek meat for their stomachs, rich
men stomach for their meat.
39. Poor men's money and cowards' weapons are
often flourished. /'a/-
40. Poor men's tables are soon spread.
41. Poor men's words have little weight. Greek.
41. Poor people's words go many to the sackful.
Ger.
43. Poor, what he can ; rich, what he will.
M. Greek.
44. Poor without debt is better than a prince.
45. That man is not poor who has the use of
things necessary, Horace.
46. The dainties of the great are the tears of the
poor.
47. The devil wipes his tail with the poor man's
pride.
48. The impartial earth is open to the poor as
well as the sons of kings. Horaet.
49. The pleasures of the mighty are the terrors of
the poor.
50. The poor advanced makes friends of enemies,
For who not needs, shall never lack a friend.
Skaks.
I40
Poor.
51. The poor ye always have with you.
New Testament.
52. The poor are rich when they are satisfied. Ger.
53. The poor do penance for the follies of their
superiors. ItaL
54. The poor can live in one house together when
two kings cannot in a kingdom. Ger,
55. The poor cannot, the rich will not. Ger,
56. The poor live secure. Ger,
57. The poor must dance as the rich pipe. Ger,
58. The poor man's honor is worth more than the
rich man's gold. Ger.
59. The poorest man may in his cottage bid defi-
ance to all the force of the crown. Wm, Pitt,
60. The poor man eats at double cost. Dan,
61. The poor man has his crop destroyed by hail
every year. Sp,
62. The poor is aye put to the worst. Scotch,
63. The poor pay for all.
64. The poor man's budget is full of schemes. 1^.
65. The poor man's coin always grows thin. Dan,
66. The poor man seeks for food, the rich man
for appetite. Dan,
67. The poor man's penny unjustly obtainjed is a
coal of fire in the rich man's purse.
68. The poor man's wisdom is as useless as a
palace in a wilderness. Gaelic.
69. The poor man turns his cake and another
comes and takes it away.
70. The poor man wants much, the miser every-
thing
Poor.
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71. The poor man must keep his word, and the
rich when it suits him. Ger,
72. The poor pour, and the rich drink, the wine.
Ger.
73. The poor rich man is emphatically poor.
74. The poor sing free throughout the world. Ger.
75. The poor sit in Paradise on the first benches.
Ger.
76. The poor trying to imitate the powerful per-
ish. Phadrus.
*l*l. The wise discourses oiE a poor man go for
nothing.
78. Inhere are many things that may not be
uttered by men in threadbare coats. Juvenal.
79. There is God's poor, and the devil's poor;
the first from Providence, the other from vice.
80. To contemn the poor because of his poverty
is to affront God's providence.
81. We give the rich, and take from the poor. Ger.
82. What the poor are to the poor none know
but themselves and God. Charles Dickens.
83. When poor, liberal ; when rich, penurious. Sp,
84. When the poor become rich they sink the
village. Ger.
85. When you eat think of the poor. Cingalese.
86. Wherever a poor man is, there is his destiny.
M. Greek.
87. Who closes his ear to the poor, Peter will not
hear when he knocks. Ger.
88. Whoso stoppeth his ear at the cry of the poor,
shall cry himself and not be heard. Hebrew.
1^2 PooR-Housis.— Pope.— Port.
89. Withhold not the wages of the poor.
Poor-houses.
I. The poor-houses are filled with the honestest
people. Sp.
Pope.
1. After one pope another is made. Ital.
2. Every priestling conceals a popeling. Ger.
3. He that has the pope for his cousin need not
fear hell fire. S/.
4. He who has the pope for his cousin may
soon be a cardinal. Ger.
5. He who never budges from Paris will never
be pope. Sp.
6. If you would be a pope you must think of
nothing else.
7. It is hard to sit in Rome an' fight wi' the
pope.
8. One living pope is better than ten dead. 7W.
9. The corpse of the pope takes up no more
ground than the sacristan's. Dtm Quixote.
10. The pope and a peasant know more than the
pope alone. Ital.
11. We cannot all be pope of Rome. Ger.
Port.
1. Any port in a storm.
2. It is not every man's lot to gain the port of
Corinth. (A part difficult to entir.) Bonue.
3. Many have come to a port after a storm.
4. No wind can do him good who steers for no
port.
POETUGOESE. — POSSESS ION.
5. The worse the passage the more welcome the
port.
Portuguese.
1. A Portuguese apprentice, who can't sew, yet
would be cutting out. Sf.
t. A bird in a cage is worth a hundred at large.
/to/.
3. A crown in pocket doth you more good than
an angel spent.
3. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
4. A sparrow in hand is worth a pheasant that
flieth by.
5. A thousand cranes in the air are not worth
one sparrow in the fist. Egyptian.
6. Better a feather in the hand than a bird in
the air. Ger.
7. Better a finch in the hand than a parrot m
the Indies.
8. Better a leveret in the kitchen than a wild
boar in the forest. Livonian.
9. Betier a mouse in the pot than no flesh at all.
10. Him that is in possession God helps. Jfal,
11. I'll not change a cottage in possession for a
12. One bird in the net is better than a hundred
flying.
13. One quill is better in the hand, than geese
upon the strand. Dutch.
14. Possession and good right with lance in hand.
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Possi B LE. — Poster ity . — Pot.
15. Possession is as good as a title. Fr.
16. Possession is eleven points in the law. and
they say there are but twelve.
17. Possession is nine points of the law.
18. Possession is the grave of pleasure.
19. Prospect is often better than possession.
20. Rather possess a freehold though but a cot-
tage than live in a palace belonging to another.
Possible.
I. Madam, if it is possible, it is done ; if it is
not possible, it shall be done. Fr.
Posterity.
I. Posterity allows to every man his true value
and his proper honors. Tacitus,
Pot.
1. A cracked pot never fell oflf the hook. Ital,
2. A little pot is soon hot. Dutch.
3. Little pots soon boil over. Ger.^ Dutch.
4. Many a good drop of broth is made in an old
pot.
5. That which will not make a pot may make a
pot lid.
6. The flawed pot lasts longest.
7. The pot boils best on your own hearth. Dan.
8. The pot that boils too much loses its flavor.
For.
9. Tis God's blessing makes the pot boil.
10. When the pot boils over it cools itself.
11. While the pot boils friendship blooms. Ger.
12. Who boils his pot with chips makes his broth
smell of smoke.
■
POVBRTV.
1
>3
You may cook in small pots
as well as in 1
large
ones.
Poyerty.
Dan. J
1
All is lost when the people fear death less ■
than
poverty.
Chinese. ■
*
A narrow fortune is a cramp to
a great mind. H
L' Estrange. H
3
A threadbare coat is armor
;>roof against H
highwaymen.
I
4-
Bear wealth— poverty will bear itself. |
5
Belter be poor than wicked.
■
6
Better poor with honor than rich with shame. |
Duteh. ■
7-
Deep draughts and long morning slumbers ^
make a man poor.
Dan. m
8.
Do not through fear of poverty surrender H
liberty, (^ai/e of the horse and the stag.) ^
9-
Eveiy one likes to wipe his shoes on poverty. ^
Ger. 1
lO.
Hard is the path from poverty
Latin. M
11.
He bears poverty very ill who is
ashamed of it. H
11.
He becometh poor who dealeth with a slack H
hand
Bible. ■
"3-
He has no share in the sun,
'■ '-. " of-J'^'y ■
poor.
M. Greek. ■
>4-
He whose expenses exceed his
receipts shall ^k
come
to poverty.
Cingalese. 1
'5-
His wit got wings and would have flown, J
But poverty still kept him down
^^^H
i6.
Honest poverty is thinly sown.
^^H
B
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POVBRTV.
17. How many sink iDto the sordid hut of cheer-
less poverty. Thomson.
18. If you would gto^ poor without perceiving it
employ worlnnen and go to sleep. For.
19. It is hard to find one who bears poverty with
a noble spirit AHstides.
20. It is more easy to praise poverty than to bear
it. Ital.
21. It is no sin to be poor. Cr€r.
22. Kin or no kin, woe to him who has nothing.
Ital.
23. My poverty, not my will, consents. Shaks.
24. No better masters than poverty and want.
'Dutch.
25. No man lives so poor as he was bom.
26. Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
27. Old age and poverty are two heavy burthens,
either is enough. Ger,
28. Pain, distress, and poverty have frightful
looks. Locke.
29. Poverty and hunger have many learned dis-
ciples. Ger.
30. Poverty and love are hard to hide.
31. Poverty breeds strife.
*
32. Poverty crsfves knahy things, but avarice more.
ItaL
33. Poverty has no kin. ItcU.
34. Poverty has no shame. Sp.
35. Poverty is a complication of evils.
36. Poverty is a good that all men hate. Ger.
POVERTY. ,4;
37. Poverty is a shirt of fire. Turk,
38. Poverty is a sort of leprosy. Fr.
39. Poverty is cunning, it catches even a fox. CriT.
40. Poverty is death in another form. Latin.
41. Poverty is no shame, but being ashamed of it
is. Ger.
42. Poverty is no sin. Fr., Sp.
43. Poverty is no sin, but it is a branch of roguery.
sp.
44. Poverty is no sin, but it is terribly incon-
venient.
45. Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only
when it is the effect of idleness, intemperance,
prodigality and folly. Plutarch.
46. Poverty is shamefully bome by a sluggard.
47. Poverty is shamed and persecuted all over
the globe. Lucan.
48. Poverty is the daughter of laziness. Ger.
49. Poverty is the mother of all arts. Ital.
50. Poverty is the mother of health.
51. Poverty is the reward of idleness. Dutch.
ji. Poverty is the sister of a sound mind.
53. Poverty is the sixth sense. Ger.
54. Poverty is the worst guard to chastity.
55. Poverty makes a man acquainted with strange
bedfellows.
56. Poverty makes a man mean.
57. Poverty never sped well in love. For.
58. Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy
burthen.
1^ Poverty.
59. Poverty parte^h friends (or fellowship).
60. Poverty shows us who are our friends and
who are our enemies. Latin,
6i. Poverty trieth friends.
62. Pride and poverty are ill met yet often to-
gether.
63. Prison and Lent were made for the poor.. Sp,
64. The poverty of the poor shall be at an end
when they shall learn to minister to the wants of
each other. Cingalese,
65. The worst part of poverty is to bear it im-
patiently.
66. Their rise is one of difficulty whose minds
are impeded by poverty. Latin.
67. They only are ashamed of poverty who are
poor against their will. Aristides.
68. Though poverty bring sorrow, riches create
inquietude.
69. To be poor the Greeks did not hold scanda-
lous unless it was due to one's own indiscretion.
Fiddmg.
70. To be poor without being free is the worst
state into whidi man can fall. * Fr.
71. To feed many persons and to build many
houses is the readiest way to poverty. Greek,
72. Unmanly poverty subdues the heart.
Cankers each wound and sharpens-every dart
CaUinadms.
. 73. When mooey is sent flying out of the. win-
dow, it's poy^^xxNues in at the door..
p
POWEB.— PRACTICI.
'49 ^J
74.
, Who doth sing so merry a note,
^^1
As be who cannot change a groat ? ^^^^
Power,
^^™
I.
AH human power is but comparative. ^|
2.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on fl
the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ^^^^|
Washington. ^^^H
3-
For sovereign power al! laws are
broken. Sp. ^^^H
4.
He is most powerful who governs himself. ^^^^|
Seneea. ^^H
5-
No power, no respect.
^^^H
6.
Power can achieve more by gentle means ^^^H
than by violence.
^^^^1
7.
Power goes before talent.
£>aH. ^^H
8.
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes ^^^^
whate
I'er it touches.
Shelley. ^H
9-
Power on my head or the raven o
<n my corpse. ^^^H
10.
Power weakeneth the wicked.
^^^H
II.
The nature of sovereign power i
to en- ^^^H
durei
\ rival.
^^^H
12.
When power puts in its plea, the laws are si- ^^^^
lent.
Practice.
Massinger. ^^^^H
I.
Practice makes perfect.
^^^1
2.
Practice makes perfect. Literal.
: The boxer's ^^^H
fist must keep to its task and the singer's
rest ^^^1
must ask.
^^^1
3-
Practice makes the master.
^^^H
4-
H
Practice not your art, and 'twill i
soon depart ^^^|
ISO
Pkaisb.^
5. Practice what yon preach. ' ^-
6. Suppose you wish to excel before an expert,
practice well. Chinese.
I. A man finds no sweeter voice, in the world
than that which chants hb praises. Fontm^ik*
a. A pdS of wind and popular praise weigh
alHce. , r
3. Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is
praise indeed. TTiomas Morton.
4. Be not the trumpeter of your own praise.
Gmk.
5. Damn with faint praise.
6. Even too much praise is a burden. ^ .
7. Every pedleipratseslus own. needles, : M
8. Every potter praises his own pot and the
more if it be cracked. Ital.^ Sp,
9. Faint praise is akin tO abuse.
10. Full praise must not be given to the; horse
that wins the race, but to the man that keeps the;
stable. Chinese.
• II. €rOod things should be praised. Shakf.
12. He dwells afar from neighbors who is fain to
praise himself.
13. He is a fool that praises himself and. a mad-
man that speaks ill of himself. Dan.
14. He that doeth good for praise only meriteth
but a puff of wind.
15. He that is loudly praised will be chunorously
censured.
16. He that praiseth bestows a favor, and he that
detracts commits a robbery.
17. He that praiseth publicly will slander pri-
vately.
18. He that refuseth praise the lirst time does it
because he would have it the second.
ig. He who praises himself befouls himself. Hal.
30. He who praises himself must have bad neigh-
bors. Ger.
21. If thou wouldst have praise, die, Welsh.
23. In doing what we ought we deserve no praise
because it is our duty. St. Augustine.
33. It is more difficult to praise rightly than to
24. It is not good praising a ford until one be
over.
25. Let another man praise thee and not thine
own mouth.
26. Let every man praise the bridge he goes
over.
27. Neither praise nor dispraise any before you
know (hem.
18. Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thine ac-
tions serve the turn.
39. Neither speak well or ill of yourself ; if well,
men will not believe you, if ill they will believe a
great deal more than you say,
30. Never praise a man tor being like a woman,
nor a woman for resembling a man. Quadaretus.
31. Never sound Ihe trumpet of your own praise.
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PftAISX.
32. None ever gives the lie to him that praiseth
him.
53. Of whom to be disprais'd were no smiall praise.
MUUm.
34* Old praise dies unless you feed it.
35. One has only to die to be praised. Ger.
36. Our praises are our wages. Shaks.
37. Praise a fool and you may make him useful
38. Praise doth a wise man good and a fool
harm.
39. Praise borrowed from ancestors is but sorry
praise. Dan.
40. Praise from Sir Hubert is praise indeed. {The
correct quotation is as above.) Thomas Morton.
41. Praise is not pudding.
42. Praise is pleasing to him that thinks he de-
serves it.
43. Praise b the hire of virtue.
44. Praise makes good men better and bad men
worse.
45. Praise not the unworthy on account of their
wealth. Bias.
46. Praise not yourself. Cingalese.
47. Praise paves the way to friendship. Dan.
48. Praise the sea and keep on land. Fr.^ Ital.
49. Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.
Broadhurst,
50. Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise.
Pope.
Prate. —Praying. Ijj
.5Z. Praise without profit puts little in the pot.
52. Praise yourself, basket, for I want to sell you.
Sf.
53. Praises are a spur to virtue, but flatteries are
a subtle poison. Petrarch.
54. Praising is not loving. Ger.
55. Self-praise defiles.
56. Self-praise is half slander.
57. Self-praise is odious.
58. Self-praise is the ground of hatred.
59. Self-praise stinks.
60. The praise of a wise man is worth a whole
theatre of others. PUtacus.
61. The praise of a fool is censure in disguise.
62. The public is more disposed to censure than
to praise. Addison.
63. The sweetest of all sounds is praise. Xenophcn.
64. The virtues of the young are increased by
praise. Tkeophrastus.
65. They that value not praise will never do any-
thing worthy of it.
66. Too much praise is a burthen.
67. True praise takes root and spreads.
Prate.
1. Prate is but prate, 'tis money buys land.
2. Prate is but prate, but its the duck that lays
the egg.
Praying.
1. A prayer of. a dog does not reach heaven. S^.
2. A short prayer ascends to heaven. Sf.
3. Affliction teaches a wicked man to pray,
prosperity never. Brnjanson.
4. Apollo hears when invoked. Latin.
5. Don't say amen to an iinacceptable prayer.
Turk.
6. He has milka prayer, but little devotion.
7. He invokes Heaven if a flea bite him. Latin.
8. He prayeth well who loveth well.
Both man and bird and beast ; .
He prayeth b^st who loveth best ,
All things both great and small. Coleridge.
9^ He that wpuld learn to pray let him go. to sea.
10. More things are wrought by prayer than this
world dreams of. Tennyson.
1 1 . Much praying but no piety.
1%. None can pray well but he that lives well.
13* Pray to the saint until you have passed the
slough., .DuUk.
14. Prayfsr is the voice of faith.
15. Prayer should be the key of the day ^nd the
lock of the night.
16. Prayers move the hand that moves the- uni-
verse. . .
17. Rather go rob with good men than pray with
bad. For.
18. Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees. Cowper.
19. The fewer the words the better the prayer.
Ger.
20. The prayer of the stranger is accepted.
PEEACHtt. P«*CHIHa 155
21. The prayers that are forced do not penetrate
into heaven. ThtA:
22. The stranger's prayer is heard. .
23. " They shall have no more of our prayers
than we of their pies," quoth the vicar of Layton.
24. When the pirate prays there is great danger.
25. Who knows not how to pray, let him go sail
the sea. //a/.
Preacher, Preaching.
1. A young preacher, a new hell.
2. Good preachers give fruits, not flowers, //a/,
3. He is a good preacher who follows his own
preaching. Gtr.
4. He is past preaching who does not care to
do well. />-.
5. He preaches well that lives well.
6. He preaches patience that never knew pain.
7. He that will not be saved needs no preacher.
Ger.
8. He who will not go to heaven needs no
preaching. Gen
9. It is bad preaching to deaf ears. Ger.
10. It is easy preaching to the fasting with a
full belly. //a/.
11. It is easy to preach fasting with a full belly.
12. The life of a pious minister is visible rhetoric.
looker,
13. The most disorderly students make the most
pious preachers. Ger.
14. There are many preachers who don't hear
themselves Ger.
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Precaution.-^Prbcbpt.— Precious.— pRKCiPiTiMTB.
15. There is no good in preaching to the
hungry.
16. You canna preach o^t of your own pulpit
Precaation.
1, Precaution b better than repentance. Greek.
2. Precaution said ''Good friend, this counsel
keep, strip not until you're laid to sleep." DuUh.
Precept.
1. Precept begins, example completes. Fr.
2. Precepts may lead, but examples draw.
Precious.
X. Precious ointments are put in small boxes.
Fr.
2. Precious things are mostly in small compass.
DuUh.
Precipitate.
I. Precipitate counsel, perilous deed. Dan.
Precedence.
1. At a dangerous passage yield precedence.
ItaL
2. Be ye last to go over a deep river.
Precedent.
1. A precedent embalms a principle. Bea.
2. To follow foolish precedents and to wink
with both our eyes, is easier than to think.
Gile^ proverbs.
Precepts.
I. Whatever precepts you give be short. Zn/rVi.
Precocity.
I. Early ripe, early rotten.
Prepared. — Preparation. — Preskmt. 157
2. He dies before he is old who is wise before
his day. ^'^«-
3. Soon fire, soon ashes. Dutch.
4. Soon grass, soon hay. Dutch.
5. Soon old, soon cold; soon old, soon with
God. Gcr-
6. Soon ripe, soon rotten. Latin.
7. So wise so young, they say do never live
long. Shahs.
8. What ripens fast does not last ^
Prepared.
I. It is better to be always prepared than to
suffer once. Latin.
Preparation.
1. Preparation for war is sometimes the best
^ security for peace.
2. Preparation is half the battle, and nothing is
lost by being on one's guard* Dan Quixote.
Present.
I. Past and to come seem best, things present
worst. Shahs.
Presnmption.
I. Presumption first blinds a man, then sets
him running.
Pretence.
1. If you want a. pretence to whip a dog, it is
easy enough to say he ate up the frying-pan.
2. On a little pretext the wolf seizes the sheep.
Ital., Dutch.
3. You have daily to do with the devil and pre-
tend to be frightened at a mouse.
I j8 PwrmillSS.— PHEVENTION.— Prey.^Peide.
4. You pretend the public but intend yourself.
5. You pretend to be a visitor, but are really a
spy.
Prettiness.
1. Prettiness dies quickly.
2. Prettiness makes no pottage.
Prerention.
1. Prevention is better than cure. Coke.
2. Prevention is the best bridle. Feltkam.
Prey.
I. If one should be a prey, how much the bet-
ter
To fall before the lion than the wolf. Shdks.
Pride.
1. A man may have a just esteem of himself
without being proud.
2. A Burston horse and a Cambridge master of
arts will give way to nobody.
3. A clown enriched knows neither relation or
friend. Fr.
4. A little dog, a cow without horns, and a short
man, are generally proud.
5. A man well mounted is always proud. Fr,
6. A proud look makes foul work in a fair face.
7. A proud mind and a poor purse are ill met.
8. A proud pauper and a rich miser are con-
temptible beings. Jtal.
9. A very proud man is always wilful.
10. And the devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility. Ofkridg^-
11. As proud as a cock on his own dunghilL
12. As proud as an apothecary.
13. As proud come behind as go before.
14. But yesterday out of the shell, to-day he
despises the shell. Turi.
15. Decency and decorum are not pride.
16. Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with
the king's horses.
17. " Fie upon thee, how black thou art," said the
kettle 10 the sauce-pan. £>an.
18. He does not think milk and water of himself.
ig. He is as proud as a peacock, and calls for
ram's milk. M. Greek.
10. He that is proud eats up himself. Shaks.
31. He that is too praud to ask, is too good to
receive.
22. He who is on horseback no longer knows
his own father, Jiussian.
23. He who is puffed up with the first gale of
prosperity will bend beneath the first blast of
adversity.
24. I do bate a proud man, as I hale the engen-
dering of toads. Shaii.
25. I wa'd na ca' the king my cousin.
26. If pride lead the van, beggary brings up the
rear. FrankHn.
fj. If pride were an art, how many doctors we
should have. Jtal.
2S. It is good pride to desire to be the best of
i6o P»iD«.
39. It is not a sign of humility to declaim against
pride.
30. It is pride, not nature, that craves much.
31. Neediness conquers pride.
32. No pride like that of an enriched beggar.
33|. Nothing more thankful than pride when com-
plied with.
33. Of all vice pride loudest calls and for the
largest bowL Votm^.
34. Peacock, look at your legs. Ger.
35. Pride and grace ne'er dwell in one place.
36. Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with
poverty, supped with infamy.
37. Pride continues not. Ger.
38. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst ana cold.
39. Pride feels no cold.
40. Pride goes before and shame follows after.
41. Pride goes hated, cursed and abominated by
all. Hammond.
42. Pride goeth before destruction, and an
haughty spirit before a fall. BMe.
43. Pride had rather go out of the way than go
behind.
44. Pride in prosperity turns to misery in adver-
sity.
45. Pride increaseth our enemies, but putteth our
friends to flight;
46. Pride is as loud a beggar as want and great
deal more saucy.
47. Pride is the mask of one's own faults. Hekrew.
PKIDL ,61 1
48
Pride is the sworn enemy of content. 1
49
Pride is joined with many virtues, chokes H
them all. ^
SO
Pride, like anger, builds among the stars, 1
But pleasure, lark like, rests upon the ground, 1
Vou^. 1
S'-
Pride leaves home on horseback but returns 1
on foot. Ger. J
S»-
Pride loves no man and is beloved by no
53-
Pride may lurk under a threadbare coat.
54.
Pride must have a fall. SAais.
55-
Pride must suffer pain. J/ans Andersen,
S6-
Pride ne'er leaves its master till it gels a fa".
57-
Pride often borrows the cloak of humility.
S8-
Pride scorns a director and choler a coun-
seller
59-
Pride scorns the vulgar, yet lies at its mercy.
6o.
Pride sleeps in a gilded crown, contentment
in a cotton njghlcap. J^rui. ^
6i.
Pride slill is aiming at the best abodes, ■
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. H
Pope. ■
6s.
Pride the first peer and president of hell. ^|
De Foe. ■
63-
Pride the never failing vice of fools. Pope. H
64.
Pride triumphant rears her head, H
A littie while and all her power is fled. ■
Goldtmth. M
6S-
Proud as a peacock, all strut and show. ^^^H
1 62 Pride.
66. Proud looks lose hearts, but courteous words
win them.
67. The best manners are stained by the addition
of pride.
68. The man in boots does not know the man in
shoes.
69. The nobler the blood the less the pride; Dan.
70. The noblest character is stained by the addi-
tion of pride. Ciaudianus.
71. The pride of the poor does not endure. Dan.
72. The pride that holds its head high rarely
picks up anything, whereas modesty like a diver
gathers pearls by keeping his head low. Punch.
73. The proud man, who gets wet through rather
than ride in the carriage of an inferior. Fumh.
74. There are some who despise pride with
greater pride. Jtal.
75. Tis good beating proud folks for they'll not
complain.
76. 'TIS pride and not nature that craves much.
77. Tis pride in fashion that puts humility out of
countenance.
78. When a proud man hears another praised he
thinks himself injured. >
79. When pride rides shame lackeys.
80. When they came to shoe the horses of the
pacha the beetle stretched out his leg.
81. You a gentleman and I a gentleman, who
will milk the cow ? {Satire on pride?) Turk.
82. You a lady, I a lady, who is to put the sow
out of doors ? (Satire on pride.) Gallician.
Priest. 163
83. You gazed at the moon and fell into the
gutter.
Priest.
I. A priest must be the guardian of truth. Ger.
3. A priesjt's pocket is not easily filled. Dan.
3. Bad priests bring the devil into the church.
4. Either fight not with priests or beat them to
death. Ger.
5. Give the priest a drink for the clerk is thirsty.
Jtal.
6. If a priest be a priest, if a ploughman be a
ploughman. M> Greek.
7. It is just the priest should live by the altar.
Fr.
8. Lang standing and little offering makes a
poor priest.
9. Like priest, like people.
10. Priests pay each other no tithes. Ger.
11. Priests pray for enemies but princes kill.
Shaks.
12. Priests should not prate out of the confes-
sional.
13. Such as the priest, such is the clerk.
14. That priest is a fool who decries his relics.
Ital.
15^ The bites, of priests and wolves are hard to
heal. Ger.
16. The priest does more than the physician.
Get.
17. The priest forgets that he was a clerk.
1^4 PRINCX.
i8. The priest to bis book ; tbe peasant to Jiis
plough. Dam.
19. Tbe priests ougbt not to survive tbeir tem-
ples. Tacitus.
30. Tbe quarrel of priests is tbe devil's jubilee.
Ger.
21. Vilify not your parisb priest.
22. Wben tbe priest visits you do not be over-
joyed ; be will soon begin to beg. Russian.
Prince.
1. A good prince does not cut out freedom's
tongue. Ger.
2. A good prince is not tbe object of fear.
Diogenes.
3. A good prince must bave a tongue, a pen and
a beart. Ger.
4. A great prince sbould bave many ears and
many eyes. Ger.
5. A prince ougbt to be aware not only of bis
enemies, but of bis flattering followers. Dumysius.
6. A prince wants a million, a beggar but a
groat.
7. A prince who would possess subjects must
respect tbeir faith. Hindoo.
8. A prince without letters is a pilot without
eyes. Benjonson.
9. A wise prince is covered with a bulwark of
gold.
10. All are not princes who ride with tbe emperor.
DuUh.
■
^^^ Pbikck
165 1
All the virtues that a prince
acquires are so H
man;
misfortunes to the wicked.
CiiHae. ■
11
As princes fiddle, subjects must dance. Ger. H
n
Happy a subject when the prince is guided by |
justic
e, nol his passionate will.
Massinger. ■
14
If the prince wants an apple, the servants ^
take the tree.
Gfr. 1
'S
No prince is poor that has rich subjects. Ger. J
t6
Princes and asses do nothing
unurged. Ger. fl
17
Princes can make knights,
but not learned H
men.
Ger. ■
18
Princes do not think of rendering their sub- 1
jects happy unless when they have nothing else to |
do.
CW.. 1
19
Princes have long arms.
Ital. 1
20.
Princes have long arms and many ears. Ger. 1
11.
Princes keep good reckoning
they never lose M
anything.
"'■ i
22.
Princes know only what they
must. Ger. ■
'3-
Princes or lords may fiourish
or may fade. ^|
Goldsmith. ■
14.
Princes will not be served on
conditions. Fr. ^|
'S-
Princes use men as the husbandmen use bees. H
Fr. ■
36.
Subjects from princes' crimes grow bold. |
Aaron HilL ■
27.
The blemish of a prince who has forfeited his H
word
can never be removed.
Chinest. ■
18.
The hand of the prince is as
rreat as his ler- ^|
riton-
Ger. 1
hJ
1 56 Princiflbs.— Prison.
29. The prince that is feared by many must of
necessity fear many.
30. The prince who deserves the favor of Heaven
should practise and honor the five virtues, charity,
justice, prudence, fidelity and politeness. Chinese.
31. The surest guard for a prince or other chief
is the sincere affections of his people. Plutarch.
32. The vices of a prince draw shoals of follow-
ers,
33. The word of a prince should never be dis-
puted or recalled. Thnour.
34. Their power and their will are the measures
princes take of nght and wrong.
35. There is no prince so bad, whose favorites
and ministers are not worse. Burke.
3(S. They are not all princes who ride with the
Czar.
37. We rise in glory as we sink in pride ;
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Young.
Principles.
I. We are best of all led to men's principles by
what they do. Butler.
• t. Heir feet,' trough faitMess" lea^r^ met the
dirt,
-And oftener changed thefar prindples than
shirt. Young.
PdSOIIe •■ . . ... -r
I. A prison is a hoiise of care, a place .where
none can thrive ;
. A touchstone true to try a friend, a grave for
one alive.
—Prodigal. 167
Sometimes a place of right, sometimes a place
of wrong,
Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves and
honest men among.
Inscription on Edinburgh old Tolboolh.
2, It is better to make conditions in the bush
than in prison, Dan.
Proclamationa.
I. To whisper proclamations is ridiculous.
Procrastioation.
I. Procrastination is the thief of time ;
Year after year it steals lill all are fled. Young,
ProdigaL
**■ 1. The prodigal robs his heir ; the miser himself.
Prodigaiitj.
1. Prodigality and profligacy are twins in every
country. Maga.
Profanity.
1. Nothing will justify profanity.
StoKtwatl Jaekson,
2. That in the captain's but a choleric word
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. SAais.
Profits.
I. For profits smalt as pin heads, they rush from
east to west, Ckintte.
3. Great capital, great profits. Chtnae,
3. Great profits, great risLs. Chinese.
4. Hold back some goods for a thousand days
and you will be sure to sell at a profiL Chinese.
5. Profit is better than fame.
l6g Pkojbcts.— Promise.
6. Small profits and often, are better than large
profits and seldom. Ger.
7. Small profits are sweet. Dan.
8. Small profits on large capital are after all
great. Chinese.
9. Great profits on small capital are after all
small. Chinese.
10. Stock that never lies dead naturally yields a
profit. Chinese.
11. The pain o'ergangs the profit.
12. What's none of my profit shall be none of
my peril.
Projects.
1. Man has many projects but (Sod cuts them
short. M. Greek.
2. Man projects all his life and dies without
realizing. J^r.
Promise.
1. A great many shoes are worn out before a
man does what he says.
2. A promise is a debt. Ger.^ ItcU.
3. A promised dollar is not worth half. Ger,
4. All promises are either broken or kept.
5. Don't promise what you cannot perform.
Turk.
6. Expect nothing from him who promises a
great deal. ^ Ital.
7. Fair promises bind foote' ^ Ital.
8. Give no credit to great promises.
9. He loses his thanks who promises and de-
lays.
Promise.
169
10. He promises like a merchant-man, and pays
like a man-of-war.
11. He ruins himself in promises and clears him-
self by giving nothing. Fr.
12. He that promises too much means nothing.
13. His promises are lighter than the breath th^t
utters them.
14. In the land of promise a man may die of
hunger. Dutch,
15. Lavish promises lessen credit. Horace.
16. Men apt to promise are apt to forget.
17. Neither promise wax to the saint, nor cakes to
the child. M, Greek,
18. No greater promisers than those who have
nothing to give. Dutch.
19. Nothing weighs lighter than a promise. Ger.
20. Promise little and do much.
21. Promises and undressed cloth are apt to
shrink. Dan,
22. Promises are for fools.
23. Promises are like pie-crust, made to be
broken.
24. Promises don't fill the belly. Ger,
25. Promises fill no sack. Ger.
26. Promises make debts and debts make
promises. Dutch.
27. Promises may make friends, but 'tis perform-
ance keeps them.
28. Promises must not fill the place of gifts.
Latin.
I/O
Prophet. — rRopiiBCY.
29. Promising and performing are two things.
jpr., Dutch.
30. Promising is not giving but serves to content
fools. For.
31. Take heed, girl, of the promise of a man, for
it will run like a crab. Sp,
32. There is no piety in keeping an unjust
promise.
33. There is no virtue in a promise unless it be
kept. Dan,
34. Thy promises are like Adonis's garden.
That one day blossomed and fruitful were the
next. Shaks.
35. To promise is easy, to keep it troublesome.
Dan,
36. To promise more butter than bread. Fr^
37. To promise more carts than oxen. Ital,
38. To promise much means giving little. For.
39. When a man repeats a promise again and
again he means to fail you.
40. Who makes no promises has none to perform.
Ger.
41. Who promises much and does little, dines a
fool on hope. Ger,
Prophet. •
1. A prophet is not without honor save in his
own country and in his own house. New Testament.
2. No man is a prophet in his own country.
Prophecy.
I. The best reply to a prophecy is another fore-
cast. New York World {tiewspafer).
Prosperity.
171
Prosperity.
1. All claim kindred with the prosperous. Latin,
2. He that considers in prosperity, will be less
afflicted in adversity.
3. In prosperity no altars smoke. ItaL
4. In prosperity think of adversity. Dutch.
5. In time of affliction a vow, in time of prosper-
ity an inundation of wickedness.
6. It is no easy matter to bear prosperity de-
cently.
7. Let the wretched hope and the prosperous be
on their guard. Latin.
8. Oh, how portentous is prosperity !
How, comet-like, it threatens while it shines I
Young,
9. Prosperity and vanity are often lodged to-
gether.
10. Prosperity destroys fools and endangers the
wise.
11. Prosperity discovers vices and adversity r
virtues.
12. Prosperity engenders sloth, Livy,
13. Prosperity forgets father and mother. Sp,
14. Prosperity gains friends, and adversity tries
them. Pacuvius,
15. Prosperity gives some appearance of higher
sentiments, even to persons of mean spirit.
Plutarch.
16. Prosperity is a ray of the sun that the least
shadow can interrupt ; adversity is sometimes like
the refreshing rain of Spring. Chinese.
172
Prosperity.
17. Prosperity is a stronger trial of virtue than
adversity. Rochefoucauld.
18. Prosperity is like a tender mother but blind
who spoils her children.
19. Prosperity is not without many fears and dis-
tastes, and adversity is not without comfort and
hopes. Souths
20. Prosperity is the nurse of anger. Latin.
21. Prosperity is the worst enemy men usually
have.
22. Prosperity lets go the bridle.
23. Prosperity is the thing in the world we ought
to trust least.
24. Prosperity tries the human heart with the
deepest probe and brings forth the hidden character.
Tacitus.
25. Prosperity's right hand is industry and her
left hand is frugality.
26. Prosperous men sacrifice not ; 1. ^., theyforgei
God.
27. Prosperous men seldom mend their faults.
28. The prosperous man cannot easily form a right
idea of misery. QunUilHan.
29. The prosperous man does not know
whether he is loved. Lucoh.
30. They must be strong legs that can support
prosperous days. Ger.
31. When prosperity smiles, beware of its guiles.
DuUh.
32. When prosperity was mounted, she. let go the
bridle and soon came tumbling out of the saddle.
Franklin.
Pkovbrb.
173
1. A man's life is often buitded on a proverb.
2. A proverb, a true word, Ger.
3. A proverb deceives not ; the heavens fall
not. Ger.
4. A proverb is a remnant of the ancient philos-
ophy preserved amidst very many destructions on
account of its brevity and fitness for use.
Syrus quoting from a work of Aristotle nmu lost.
5. A proverb is condensed popular wisdom.
Carl Sceibtuh.
6. A proverb Is much light condensed in one
flash, Simmons.
7. A proverb lies not ; its sense only deceives.
Ger.
8. A proverb — much matter decocted into a few
words. Fuller.
9. A proverb is the child of experience.
10. A proverb is the experience of half a cent-
ury, extracted from a dozen folio volumes and com-
pressed in a crystal.
I T, A proverb is the interpretation of the words of
the wise. Bible,
12. A proverb is the wit of one man and the wis-
dom of many, John Russdl.
13. A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles
difficulties. Yoruba.
14. All the good sense of the world runs into
proverbs,
15. An apologue of ^sop is beyond a syllogism,
and proverbs more powerful than demonstration.
Brown's Vulgar Errors.
»;4
Proverb.
1 6. As the country so the proverb. Ger,
1 7 . Cessit inpraverbum. {It has become a proverb^
i8. Generally a fable is a proverb put in action.
Maga.
19. I am proverb*d with a grandsire phrase,
To be candle-holder and looker-on. Shaks.
20. * * * * Jewels five words long
That on the stretched forefinger of all time
Sparkle forever. Tennyson,
21. Maxims expressed in a few words and become
popular. La Rousse,
22. Proverbs are the children of experience.
23. Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
DuUh.
24. Proverbs are the echoes of experience.
Z* Abbede St Pierre,
25. Proverbs are the jewels of the multitude.
Popular EncydopcBdia.
26. Proverbs are the language of the gods. Vico,
27. Proverbs are the wisdom of ages. Ger.
28. Proverbs are the wisdom of the streets.
29. Proverbs bear age, and he would do well to
view himself in them as in a glass.
^ 30. Proverbs lie on the lips of fools.
31. Short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes.
32. Short sentences frequently repeated by the
people. Johnson.
33. Short sentences into which as in rules the
ancients have compressed Vd^. Johann Agricola^ ^SS^*
Providence.
175
' 34. Solomon made a book of proverbs, but a book
of proverbs never made a Solomon.
35. The genius, wit and spirit of a nation are dis-
covered in its proverbs. Bacon,
36. The ingredients of a good proverb are sense,
shortness and salt. Howell,
37. We have many coarse proverbs, but of good
meaning. Ger,
38. Well-known and well-used dicta framed in a
sort of out-of-the-way form and fashion. Erasmus,
39. When a poor man makes a proverb he does
not break it. Ger,
Providence.
1. If you leap into a well. Providence is not
bound to help you out.
2. If you oblige those who can never pay you,
you make Providence your debtor.
3. Providence alone can extricate us out of the
labyrinths we often fall into. Turkish Spy,
4. Providence assists not the idle. Latin,
5. Providence for the most part sets us on a level.
Spectator,
6. Providence is better than rent.
7. Providence knows better what we require than
we do ourselves. La Fontaine,
8. Providence is supremely wise, alike in what it
gives and what denies.
9. Providence will sooner or later procure the
felicity of the virtuous and innocent. Fielding,
10. There is a special providence in the fall of a
sparrow.
I ^5 Proving.^Provision.— Prude.— Prudxncb.
I. He that proves too much proves nothing.
LaHn.
3. Prove all things ; hold fast that which is good.
New Testament.
3. That which proves too much proves nothing.
Provision.
I. Provision in season makes a bien (plentiful)
house.
Prude.
I. A prude often preserves her reputation when
she has lost her virtue. Spectator,
Prudence.
1. Abandon not your old clothes till you get
your new. Gaelic,
2. A good " take heed " will surely speed.
3. A grain of prudence is worth a pound of
craft.
4. A prudent man does not make the goat his
gardener. Hungarian.
5. A prudent man procures in summer the sleigh
and in winter the wagon. Roumanian,
6. All things belong to the prudent.
7. A nail secures the horseshoe, the shoe the
horse, the horse the man, the man the castle, and
the castle the whole land. Ger,
8. Be on the safe side.
9. Attempt not to fly like an eagle with the
wings of a wren.
10. Be prudent with valor and brave without
ostentation. Agricola,
Prying.— Pudding. — Puff.— Pull.— Pun.
177
11. Colts by falling and lads by losing grow pru-
dent. Sp»
12. Destroy the lion while he is but a whelp.
13. Do not ship all in one bottom. Ger.
14. Do not wade where you see no bottom. Dan.
15. No protecting deity is wanted if there be
prudence. Juvenal,
16. Prudence is the charioteer of all virtue. Ztf//;^.
17. Prudence is the parent of success.
18. Prudence supplies the want of every good.
Juvenal.
19. The most prudent yields to the strongest. Ital.
20. The prudent still have fortune on their side.
Spectator.
Prying.
I. Who is always prying has a dangerous life.
Sp.
Pudding.
1. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Dutch.
2. The proof of the pudding is not in chewing
the bag.
Puff.
I. Puff not against the wind.
PnU.
1. Pull down your hat on the wind side.
2. Pull gently at a weak rope.
Pnn.
I. Who makes a pun will pick a pocket.
Punctnality.
I. Punctuality begets confidence and respect.
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178
Punishment. — Pure.— Purse.
2. Punctuality is the soul of business.
Punishment.
1. A monarch should be slow to punish, swift to
reward. Ovid,
2. Birchen twigs break no ribs.
3. It is cruelty to the innocent not to punish the
guilty. Syrus.
4. It is less to suifer punishment than to deserve
it. Ovid,
5. Let them who have deserved their punish-
ment bear it patiently. Ovid.
6. It is seldom that punishment though lame of '
foot has failed to overtake a villain. Horace.
7. Man punishes the action, but God the in-
tention.
8. Many without punishment, none without sin.
9. Punishment comes slowly, but it comes. Ger.
10. The worst punishment of all is that in the
court of his own conscience, no guilty man is ac-
quitted. Juvenal.
11. When men of talents are punished, authority
is strengthened. Tacitus,
12. Who punishes one threatens a hundred. Fr,
Pure.
I. To the pure all things are pure. Latin,
Purse.
1. A dainty stomach beggars the purse.
2. A full purse has many friends. Ger,
3. A full purse is better than ten friends. Ger,
4. A full purse makes the heart light. Ger,
Purse.
179
5. A full purse makes the mouth run over.
6. A full purse never lacks friends.
7. A handsome hostess is bad for the purse.
8. A handsome landlady is bad for the purse.
9. A light purse makes a heavy heart.
. 10. A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse.
11. A purse without money is but a piece of
leather.
12. All is not gain that is put in the purse.
13. All is not won that is put in the purse.
14. An empty purse causes a full heart. Fielding,
15. An empty purse damps a bargain. Gaelic.
16. An empty purse frightens away friends.
17. An empty purse and a new house make a
man wise, but too late. For,
18. An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles.
19. An empty purse frights away friends.
20. An empty purse is heavy but sickness presses
heavier. Roumanian,
21. An empty purse makes a man wise too late.
For,
22. Ask thy purse what thou shouldst buy.
23. Be it for better or be it for worse,
Be ruled by him that beareth the purse.
24. Better an empty purse than an empty head.
Ger,
25. Better an empty purse than gold saved. Ger,
26. But for all that the honest man has not got
his purse. Fr.
27. Give every man good words, but keep your
purse strings close.
1 80 Purse.
28. Gold and silver are a good provision in the
purse.
29. Gold is gold though it be in a rogue's purse.
Dan.
30. He hath left his purse in his other breeches.
31. He that buys and lies shall feel it in his purse.
32. He that has but four and spends five has no
need of a purse.
33. He that hath money in his purse cannot want
a head for his shoulders.
34. He that hath no money needeth no purse.
35. He that in his purse lacks money,
Hath in his mouth much need of honey.
36. He that shows his purse longs to be rid of it
37. He who does not open his eyes must open
his purse. Ger.
38. He who has his purse full preaches to the
poor man. Fr.
39. Heavy purses and light hearts can sustain
much. Dutch,
40. His purse and his palate are ill met.
41. His purse is made of toad-skin; /. ^., he is a
covetous person.
42. If a man empties his purse into his head no
man can take it from him. Franklin,
43. If you put nothing in your purse you can take
nothing out.
44. It is petty expenses that empty the purse. Itctl.
45. Keep your purse and your mouth closed.
46. Let your purse be your master.
lg2 Pursuits.— Put. — Quackery. — Quaileth.
64. Who has no money in his purse must have
honey in his mouth. Ital,
65. Wrinkled purses make wrinkled faces.
66. Yes, ready money is Aladdin's lamp. Byron.
Pursuits.
I. Trifling pursuits true wisdom casts away.
Horaue.
Put.
1. Put a stout heart to a steep hill.
2. Put by for a rainy day.
3. Put on your spurs and be at your speed.
4. Put the right man in the right place.
5. Put your finger in the fire, and say 'twas your
ill fortune. Scotch.
. Be not an esquire where you were a page. Sp.
2. Make a page of your own age.
3. Whereyou were apage be not an esquire. For.
I. An hour of pain is as long as a day of
pleasure.
2. Great pain and little gain make a man soon
weary.
3. Great pains cause us to forget the small ones.
Ger.
4. He that is uneasy at ever so little pain is
never without some ache.
5. If pains be a pleasure to you profit will
follow.
6. Let pain deserved without complaint be
borne. Dr. Johnson.
7. Naething is got without pains but dirt and
lang nails.
8. Pain is forgotten when gain comes.
9. Pain is no longer p>ain when it is past
10. Pain makes even the innocent liars. Syrus.
If. Pain past is pleasure.
12. Pains are the wages of ill pleasures.
13. Pains make the heart golden. Get.
14. There is a pleasure that is born of pain.
(huen Meredith.
15. There is no pain so great that time will not
soften. Ger.
16. There is no remembrance which time does
not obliterate, nor pain which death does not put an
end to. Don Quixote.
17. Where a man feels pain he lays his hand.
DiOeh.
Palate.
I. There is no living with a man whose palate
has quicker sensations than his heart. Cato.
Papbr.— Paradise.— Parasite.— PARDONi
Paper.
1. Paper bears anything (or is patient). Fr.^ Ger.
2. Paper does not blush.
Paradise.
1. A good key is necessary to enter Paradise.
Itai.
2. For the pious, Paradise exists everywhere.
Bea.
3. He that will enter Paradise must come with a
right key.
4. One cannot enter Paradise in spite of the
saints. ItaL
5. Paradise is for those who command their
anger. Koran.
Parasite.
I. The parasite has no roots. Western Africa.
Pardon.
1. But they ne'er pardon who have done the
wrong.
2. He that sharply chides is the most ready to
pardon.
3. He who will not pardon others must not him-
self expect pardon. Seneca,
4. It is more noble to pardon than to punish.
Arabian Nights.
5. Pardon is the choicest flower of victory.
Arabian.
6. Pardon others often, thyself never. Syrus.
7. Pardoning the bad is injuring the good.
8. The very best men stand in need of pardon.
9. They tha^ have much business must have
much pardon.
1 06 Paris.— Parleys.— Parlor.— Park ASSUSi
Paris.
I. There is but one Paris. jp^^
Parleys.
I. The town that parleys is half surrendered. Fr.
Parlor.
1. All that is said in the parlor should not be
heard in the hall.
2. Your dirty shoes are not welcome in my
parlor.
Parnassus.
I. Parnassus has no gold mines in it
Parry.
1. There is a parry to every thrust
Partners.
I. When two partners are of one mind, clay is
into gold refined. Chinese.
Partridge.
I. The partridge loves peas but not those that go
into the pot with it Jolqfs{Afrka^
Party.
I. Party is the madness of many for the gain of
a few. Pope.
Passions.
1. Give me that man that is not passion's slave.
And I will wear him in my heart's core.
Shaks.
2. Govern your passions, otherwise they will
govern you. Horace.
3. He alone is happy who commands his pas-
sions. Horace.
4. He that overcomes his passions, overcomes
his greatest enemies. •
Passionate. — Past.
107
5. He whom passion rules is bent to meet his
death. Plautus,
6. He that shows a passion tells his enemy
where he may hit him.
7. Hence one master-passion in the breast,
Like Aaron's serpent swallows up the rest.
Pope.
8. No man can guess in cold blood what he may
do in a passion.
9. Nothing is well said or done in a passion.
10. Passions are winds to urge us o'er the wave,
Reason the rudder to direct or save.
11. Regulate thy own passions and bear those of
others.
12. The end of passion is the beginning of re-
pentance.
13. The passions are like fire and water, good
servants but bad masters.
14. The ruling passion strong in death.
15. The ruling passion, be it what it will,
The ruling passion conquers reason still. Pope.
16. We ought to distrust our passions even when
they seem most reasonable.
17. Where passion is high, there reason is low.
Passionate.
1. Passionate men like fleet hounds are apt to
overrun the scent.
2. Passionate people lay up no malice.
Past.
I. Not Jove himself upon the past has power.
Homer.
iQg Pastime.— Patch.— Patch-work.— Pater NosrifiaL
2. The best prophet of the future is the past.
Bynm.
Pastime.
1. One should make a serious study of a pastime.
Alexander the Great
2. Use pastime so as not to lose time.
Patch.
1. Patch by patch is good housewifery, but
patch upon patch is plain beggary.
2, The best patch is of! the same cloth. Sp.
Patch-work.
I. The defects are often better than the patch-
work. Ger^
Pater Noster.
1. A man may say even his paternoster out of
time.
2. He knows it as well as h\s pater noster. Sp.
3. Let those pater nosters be for your own soul.
{Ironical speech in reproof of swearing^ Sp,
Path.
1. A beaten path is a safe one. Latin,
2. A hundred paths present a hundred difficul-
ties. Chinese.
3. Better a path than a hole. Ger.
4. Every path hath its puddle.
5. The middle path is the safe path. Ger.
6. The path of duty is the path of safety.
7. The path of pain leads to Paradise. Ger.
8. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Gray.
Patience.
109
9. There is no royal path which leads to geom-
etry, Euclid addressing Ptolemy,
Patience.
1. A moment's patience is a ten-year's comfort.
M, Greek.
2. An hour's patience will procure a long period
of rest. Arabian,
3. An ounce of patience is worth a pound of
brains. Dutch,
4. Abused patience turns to fury.
5. All commend patience, but none can endure
to suffer.
6. At the bottom of patience is Heaven. Bomou.
7. Be patient and you shall have patient chil-
dren.
8. Be patient toward all men. New Testament,
9. Bear patiently what thou sufferest by thine
own fault. Dutch,
10. Beware of the fury of a patient man. Dryden,
11. Every misfortune is to be subdued by pa-
tience.
12. Every thing which is out of our power to
amend becomes more supportable by patience.
Horace,
13. Have patience, Cossack, thou wilt come to be
a hetman. Russian,
14. He that can be patient finds his foe at his
feet. Dutch.
15. He who endures with patience is a conqueror.
Latin,
no Patience.
1 6. How poor are they that have not patience.
17. Job was not so miserable in his sufferings as
happy in his patience.
18. No remedy but patience.
19. None patient but the wise.
20. Patience abused becomes fury. Latin.
21. Pati«nce and application will carry us
through.
22. Patience and pusillanimity are two things.
23. Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a
silk gown. Chinese.
24. Patience and time accomplish more than
force and violence. La Fontaine.
25. Patience devours the devil. Ger.
26. Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet
fruit. Ger.
27. Patience is a flower that grows not in every
garden.
28. " Patience is a good plant, but it don't grow
in my garden," said the hangman. Ger.
29. Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Bea.
30. Patience is a plaister for all sores.
31. Patience is good preaching. Ger.
32. Patience is pale cold cowardice in noble
breasts. Shaks.
33. Patience is so like fortitude, that she seems
either her sister or her daughter. Aristotle.
34. Patience is sorrow's salve. ChurchUL
tPATimCK.' I I t
35. Patience is the armor and conquest of the
godly. Charlutte Young,
36. Patience is the beggar's virtue. Massinger.
37. Patience is the best buckler against a£ronts.
38. Patience is the door of joy, Ger.
39. Patience is the key of Paradise. Turk.
40. Patience is ihe strongest of strong drinks, for
it kills the giant Despair. Douglas Jerrohl.
41. Patience is the virtue of asses. Fr.
4a. Patience, money and lime, bring all things to
pass.
43. Patience must sufFer pain. Dr. Johnson.
44. Patience opens all doors,
45. " Patience," said the wolf to the ass. Ital.
46. Patience surpasses learning, Dutch.
47. Patience, lime, and money overcome every-
thing. Ital.
48. Patience under injuries invites new ones.
Syru,.
49. Patience with poverty is all a poor man's
remedy.
JO, The herb patience does not grow in every
51. The patient man is always at home.
53. The remedy for hard times is to have pa-
tience. Arabian.
53- The world is for him who has patience. Ital.
54. Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will
plod. Shaks.
55. To wait and be patient soothes many a pang.
Dan.
112
Patriotism.
56. Verjuice with patience becomes wine, and
the mulberry leaf becomes satin. TltrJt.
57. What cannot be removed becomes lighter by
patience. Horace.
58. Who has patience may get fat thrushes at a
farthing apiece. JtaL
59. Who has patience sees his revenge. Jtal,
60. With patience and time, the mulberry becomes
a silk gown. Sp,
Patriotism.
1. A boot from my own country let it even be
patched. M. Greek.
2. A brave and generous mind will shun no
danger to save his prince and country. Turkish Spy.
3. A good citizen owes his life to his country.
Russian.
4. A patriot is a fool in every age. Pope,
5. And for a country 'tis a bliss to die. Homer.
6. In such an enterprise, to die is rather
The dawn of an eternal day, than death.
Byron.
7. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Johnson.
8. Patriotism must be founded on great princi-
ples and supported by great virtue. Bolingbroke.
9. Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.
Calhoun.
10. There is always a clinging to the land of
one's birth. Hans Andersen.
11. 'Tis sweet to die for one's country.
Pause. — Pauses.— Pay.
"3
12. True patriots we, for be it understood,
We left our country for our country's good.
Barringtan^ of the people of Botany Bay,
Pause.
I. Tis best to pause and think ere you rush on.
Byron.
Pauses.
I. Prudent pauses forward business.
Pay.
I. Good-will should be taken in part payment.
a. He is well paid that is well satisfied. Shaks,
3. He needs say nothing about the score who
pays nothing. Fr,
4. He pays for the glasses who breaks them.
Fr.
5. He that becomes responsible pays. Fr.
6. He that cannot pay let him pray.
7. He that payeth beforehand shall have his
work ill done.
8. He that pays last never pays twice.
9. He who cannot with his purse must pay with
his hide. Ger.
10. If you would have your work ill done pay be-
forehand. Ital.
11. Ill payers are aye gude cravers.
12. I will pay thee when fowls cut their teeth.
Kanuri or Bomou {Africa).
13. Once paid, never craved.
14. Pay as you go and keep from small score.
15. Pay day comes every day.
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Paymaster.
1 6. Pay him hame in his ain coin.
17. Pay promptly, collect closely.
18. Pay what thou owest and know what thou
hast. Ger.
19. Pay what you owe and be cured of your com-
plaint Sp.^ For.
20. Punctual pay gets willing loan.
21. Sair cravers are aye ill payers.
22. Soon paid is well paid. Ger.
23. There is no paying with an empty hand.
Fiddkig.
24. They take a long day that never pay.
25. To pay one in his own coin.
26. Who pays beforehand is served behindhand.
Ital.
27. Who pa3rs promptly borrows when he will. Fr.
28. Who pays well is master of others' purses.
Ger.
29. Who pays well is well served. Ger.
Paymaster.
1. A good paymaster does not hesitate to give
good security. Itai.
2. A good paymaster is keeper of other men's
purses. Sp.
3. A good paymaster ma^uild St. Paul's.
4. A good paymaster needs no security.
5. A good paymaster never wants workmen.
6. An ill paymaster never wants an excuse.
7. An ill receiver makes an ill pa3nnaster.
8. An ill servant will never be a good paymaster.
Peace. 1x5
9. Good paymasters need no security.
10. Great promisers, bad paymasters. Ger^ Dutch.
11. He who pays his debts betters his condition.
Ger.
12. He who pays is fairly entitled to speak his
mind. Fr.
13. He who pays well may borrow again. Ger,
14. Of an ill paymaster get what you can though
it be but a straw.
15. The worse the dun the worse the paymaster.
Ger.
Peace.
1. A cake eaten in peace is worth two in trouble.
2. A certain peace is to be preferred to an ex-
pected victory. Hannibal,
3. A deceitful peace is more hurtful than open
war.
4. A disadvantageous peace is better than the
most just war. Erasmus.
5. Better a lean peace than a fat victory.
6. Better an egg in peace than an ox in war.
7. Better an unjust peace than a just war.
8. Better cabbage in peace than sugar with
grumbling. M. Greek,
9. Better keep peace than make peace. Dutch.
10. By wisdom peace, by peace plenty.
11. From prudence peace, from peace abundance.
Ital,
12. He that will not have peace, God gives him
war.
1 16 Pbaci.
13. If princes knew to speak, and women to keep
silent, courtiers said what they thought, and ser-
vants to conceal it, the whole world would be at
|3eace. Chinese.
14. If you desire peace be ever prepared for war.
Latin.
15. In peace prepare for war.
16. Neither trust nor contend, nor lay wagers or
lend, and you'll have peace to the end. /Vr.
17. No one can have peace longer than his neigh-
bor pleases. Dutch.
18. One peace is better than ten victories. Ger.
19. Peace and a well-built house cannot be
bought too dearly. Dan.
20. Peace and patience and death with penitence.
Sp.
21. Peace in the village is bettei- than war in the
city. Ger.
22. Peace feeds, war wastes; peace breeds, war
consumes. Dan.
23. Peace flourishes when reason rules.
24. Peace has her victories no less renowned
than war. MUtan.
25. Peace is in holding one's tongue. Turk.
26. Peace is obtained by war. Nepos.
27. Peace is the father of friendship.
Bomou (Africa).
28. Peace must be bought even at a high price.
Dan.
29. Peace to his ashes.
30. Peace with a cudgel in hand is war. Par.
PEAR.--PEAIILS.— -Peasant. 117
31. Peace without truth is poison. Ger.
32. Peace would be universal if there were
neither thine nor mine. /ito/.
33. See, listen, and be silent, and you will live in
peace. ^^^'
34. They make a desert and call it peace. Tacitus.
35. When they have made the world a solitude
they call it peace.
Golgcuus the Briton referring to the Romans.
36. Who loves peace serves God. Ger.
37. You must ask your neighbor if you shall live
in peace.
Pear.
I. When the pear is ripe it falls. ftal., Ger.
Pearls.
1. Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
New Testament
2. Pearls and precious stones are not good to
eat or drink. Chinese.
3. Pearls are like girls : they require much atten-
tion. Bea.
Peasant.
1. A rich peasant, like a shaggy dog, only keeps
himself warm with his money. Roumanian.
2. An ennobled peasant does not know his own
father.
3. ** At home," says the peasant, " I am king."
Ger.
4. Better a healthy peasant than a sickly king.
{Said by Ferdinand III) Ger.
5. Better a rich peasant than a poor nobleman.
Ger.
II g Pedigree. — Pen.
6. He who would cheat a peasant must take one
with him. Ger.^ Duich.
7. If the thunder is not loud the peasant for-
gets to cross himself. Russian.
8. It is easier to make a lady of a peasant girl,
than a peasant girl of a lady.
9. Peasant erect is taller than peasant on
bended knee. Turk.
10. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ;
A breath can make them as a breath has
made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride.
When once destroyed can never be supplied.
Goldsmith.
11. Set a peasant on horseback and he forgets
both God and man. Sp.
12. The peasant is a peasant though he sleep till
mid-day. Ger.
13. The peasant reaches heaven as soon as the
nobleman. Ger^
14. There is no knife cuts deeper, than a peasant
become a nobleman. Ger.
15. When a peasant gets rich he knows neither
relations nor friends. Sp.
16. When the peasant would become a nobleman,
he becomes a beggar. Ger.
^ Pedigree.
I. Who asks after the pedigree of a swine he is
to kill ?
Pen.
I. A goose quill is more dangerous than a lion's
paw.
Penny.
119
2. Beneath the rule of men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword. Bulwer,
3. He writes with an iron pen. Latin,
4. Many who wear rapiers are afraid of goose-
quills.
5. Pen and ink is wit's plough.
6. Take away the sword,
States can be saved without it ; bring the pen !
Bulwer,
7. The lance never blunted the pen, nor the pen
the lance. Don Quixote,
8. The might that slumbers in a goose's wing.
9. The pen is a tree whose fruit is expression.
10. The pen is mightier than the sword.
11. The pen of the tongue should be dipped in
the ink of the heart. Ital,
12. The pen, that mighty instrument of little men.
Byron,
13. You need not get a golden pen to write upon
dirt.
Penny.
1. A bad penny always comes back. Ger,
2. A penny in my purse will bid me drink when
all the friends I have will not.
3. A penny in the pocket is better than a ducat
in the chest Ger.
4. A penny in time is as good as a dollar. I?an,
5. A penny is sometimes better spent than
spared.
6. A penny saved is a penny gained.
I20
Penny.
7. A penny saved is twopence clear,
A pin a day's a groat a year. Franklin,
8. A pennyworth of ease is worth a penny.
9. A single penny fairly got.
Is worth a thousand that are not. Ger.
TO. Account not that work slaveiy
That brings in penny savory.
11. An ill-won penny will cast down a pound.
12. Better a penny out of the land than a dollar
out of the sea. Ger,
13. Better one's own penny than another's dollar.
Ger.
14. Better penny in silver than any brother.
15. Better to-day a penny than to-morrow a dol-
lar. Ger.
16. Ducats are clipped, pence are not. Ger.
17. Every penny that's saved is not gotten.
18. He that does not save pennies will never
have pounds. Sp.
19. He that regards not a penny will lavish a
pound.
20. He who was born to pennies will never be
master of dollars. Dan.
21. In for a penny, in for a pound.
22. It is a good penny with which one gains a
dollar. Ger.
23. Lay thy hand upon thy half-penny twice be-
fore thou partest with it.
24. One cannot have a good penny with bad
ware. Fr.
25- One penny in the money-box makes more
noise than when it is full. Dutch.
26. One penny is better on land than ten on the
seas. Dan.
27. One penny with right is better than a thou-
sand without right. Ger.
28. Penny and penny laid up will be many.
39. Penny in poclcet is a good companion.
30, Penny is penny's brother. Gtr.
31. Fenny wise and pound foolish.
33. Put two pennies in a purse an' they'll come
thegither.
33. Take care of the pence and the pounds will
take care of themselves.
34. That penny is well spent that saves a groat.
35. That which is stamped a penny will never be
a pound. Dan.
36. The honest penny is better than the stolen
dollar.
37. The penny does not remain with a poor man,
38. The penny is the best companion in all lands.
Ger.
39. The smith and his penny are always black.
40. The smith makes more noise to earn a penny
than the goldsmith to earn a ducal. Ger.
41. The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous
pound, Ger.
43. There is no companion tike the penny.
43. There's no compassion like the penny.
44. 'Tis a good farthing saves a penny, Fr.
I20
Penny.
7. A penny saved is twopence clear,
A pin a day's a groat a year. Frankiin.
8. A pennyworth of ease is worth a penny.
9. A single penny fairly got.
Is worth a thousand that are not. Ger.
TO. Account not that work slaveiy
That brings in penny savory.
11. An ill-won penny will cast down a pound.
12. Better a penny out of the land than a dollar
out of the sea. Ger.
13. Better one's own penny than another's dollar.
Ger.
14. Better penny in silver than any brother.
15. Better to-day a penny than to-morrow a dol-
lar. Cr€r.
16. Ducats are clipped, pence are not. Ger.
17. Every penny that's saved is not gotten.
18. He that does not save pennies will never
have pounds. Sp.
19. He that regards not a penny will lavish a
pound.
20. He who was bom to pennies will never be
master of dollars. D€ui.
21. In for a penny, in for a pound.
22. It is a good penny with which one gains a
dollar. Ger.
23. Lay thy hand upon thy half-penny twice be-
fore thou partest with it.
24. One cannot have a good penny with bad
ware. JFr.
■
^^^ Fenny.
1
fS
One penny in the money-box makes
more _ 1
than when it is full. DuUA. ^
26.
One penny is better on land than ten
an the
seas.
Bau.
2^.
One penny with right is better than a
Iho^i-
sand without right.
Ger.
28.
Penny and penny laid up will be many.
ag.
Penny in pocket is a good companion.
30.
Penny is penny's brother.
Ger. -
3'-
Penny wise and pound foolish.
32-
Put two pennies in a purse an' they'll
come
thegilher.
33-
Take care oE the pence and the pounds will H
take care of themselves.
■
34-
That penny is well spent that saves a groat. H
35-
That which is stamped a penny will ne
erbe ■
a pound.
Dan. ■
36-
The honest penny is better than the stolen ■
dolla
I
37-
The penny does not remain with a poo
1
38.
The penny is the best companion in all lands. |
GtK ■
39-
The smith and his penny are always black. |
40.
The smith makes more noise to earn a
penny ■
than the goldsmith to earn a ducat.
Gtr. ■
41.
The unrighteous penny corrupts the righteous B
pound.
G<r. m
41.
There is no companion like the penny.
■
43-
There's no compassion like the penny.
1
44.
'Tis a good fanhing saves a penny.
J
122 Perhaps.'-Perseverance.
45. What is not wanted is dear at a penny.
46. Who pennies has, has also friends. Ger.
47. Who will not keep a penny,
Shall never have many.
48. You may know by a penny how a shilling
spends.
Perhaps.
I. Perhaps hinders folk from lying. F^.
Persererance.
1. An oak is not felled at one blow. Sp*
2. Appeles was not a master painter the first day.
3. By slow degrees the bird builds its nest.
Dutch,
4. Great works are performed not by strength
but by perseverance. Johnson,
5. Link by link the coat of mail is made. Fr,
6. In time a mouse will gnaw through a cable.
Ger.
7. Many strokes though with a little axe.
Hew down and fell the hardest timbered oak.
Shaks,
8. Nine storied terraces rise by a gradual ac-
cumulation of bricks. Chinese.
9. Paris was not built in a day. Fr.
10. Perseverance brings success. Dutch.
11. Perseverance kills the game. Sp.
12. Step by step one goes far (or to Rome).
Ital.^ For., Dutch.
13. The repeated stroke will fell the oak. Ger.
14. There is nothing difficult in the world; the
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123
only fear is that men will be lacking in perse-
verance. Chinese.
15. 'Tis perseverance that prevails.
16. Troy was not taken in a day.
17. With perseverance one surmounts all diffi-
culties. M. Greek.
18. Zamora {a city of Spain) was not built in a
day, Don Quixote.
Persnagion.
- I. Persuasion is better than force.
2. Persuasion is the recourse of the feeble, and
the feeble can seldom persuade. Gibbon.
3. The persuasion of the fortunate sways the
doubtful.
Pertinacity.
I. I'll fight it out on this line if it take all
summer. U. S, Grant,
Philosopher, Philosophy.
1. A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to
atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's
minds about to religion. Bacon.
2. All that philosophy can teach is to be stub-
born or sullen under misfortune. Goldsmith.
3. Aristippus being asked what he learned by
philosophy replied, " To live well with all the world."
4. Beard and mantle do not make the philoso-
pher. Ger.
5. Many a philosopher is little honored till the
future prove his inspiration. Bea.
6. Philosophy teaches a knowledge of the truth
of things. Hegel.
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jitiATSCiiia.'i
^ Tie aev »Li»:musr aaoR a sev iooTs cip-
ir. T^ti0e ^ aiw^mg sr iMUji ss aot to hftTe
I. PzT ats Toc ^ B :!« ofaiSosofiiiet's
I. Too most let TQaTphBc;:^ sobdne jonr cboler
if TOO vonld not spoil joor basaies&
I. Tbe world belong to the pUegmatic. AtL
I. Pick-pockets are sore traders toar they take
readj-money.
I* A room hung with pictiiTes is a room hung
widi dKMigfats. Sir Joshua JteymMs.
I. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief
of decaying man. Rambter.
' 2. True piety elevates the spirt, ennobles • the
heart and strengthens the courage.
Pigeons.
z. Pigeons are taken when crows fly at pleasure.
PiGMiBS.— Pilgrims.— Pillow.— Pilot. 125
X. Pigmies are pigmies still though perched on
Alps,
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Voufiig^.
Pilgrims.
I. Pilgrims seldom come home saints.
Pillow.
I. Our pillow should be our counsellor. Latin.
Pilot.
1. A good pilot is not known when the sea isi
calm and the weather fair. Daii.
2. A mariner must have his eye upon rock and
sands as well as upon the north star.
3* A pilot is not chosen for riches but his
knowledge.
4. Every one can navigate in fine weather. Ifal.
5. Every pilot
Can steer the ship in calms, but he performs
The skilful part can manage it in storms.
DcnAam.
6. He steers his course by wandering planets
instead of the faithful pole. Petrarch,
7. In a calm sea every man is a pilot. Ger,
8. it is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather. .
Dan,
9. It is not in the pilot's power to prevent the
wind from blowing. Sp,
10. Reward not a sleeping pilot. Latin,
11. The best pilots are ashore. Dutch,
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Philosopher's Stone. — Phlegm. — Phlegmatic.
7. Philosophy triumphs easily over past and
over future evils but present evils triumph over
philosophy. Rochefoucauld,
8. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. Keats,
9. The new philosopher needs a new fool's cap.
Ger.
10. There is nothing so absurd as not to have
been said by some philosopher. Cicero,
n. "We two have much to think about," said
the louse on the head of the philosopher. . Ger,
Philosopher's Stone.
I. Pay as you go is the philosopher's stone.
John Randolph of Roanoke.
Phlegm
I. You must let your phlegm subdue your choler
if you would not spoil your business.
Phlegmatic.
I. The world belongs to the phlegmatic. ItaL
Pick-pockets.
I. Pick-pockets are sure traders for they take
ready-money.
Pictures.
t. A room hung with picttires is a room hung
with thoughts. Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Piety.
I. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief
of decaying man. Rambler,
'' 2. True piety elevates the spirt, ennobles • the
heart and strengthens thie courage.
Pigeons.
I. Pigeons are taken when crows fly at pleasure.
Pigmies.— Pilgrims.— Pillow.— Pilot. 125
Pigmies.
X. Pigmies are pigmies still though perched on
Alps,
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Youfiig'.
Pilgrims.
I. Pilgrims seldom come home saints.
PiUow.
I. Our pillow should be our counsellor. Latin.
Pilot.
1. A good pilot is not known when the sea is.
calm and the weather fair. DaH,
2. A mariner must have his eye upon rock and
sands as well as upon the north star.
3. A pilot is not chosen for riches but his
knowledge.
4. Every one can navigate in fine weather. Ifal.
5. Every pilot
Can steer the ship in calms, but he performs
The skilful part can manage it in storms.
Denham,
6. He steers his course by wandering planets
instead of the faithful pole. Petrarch.
7. In a calm sea every man is a pilot. Ger.
8. It is easy to sit at the helm in fine weather. .
Dan.
9. It is not in the pilot's power to prevent the
wind from blowing. Sp.
10. Reward not a sleeping pilot. Latin.
11. The best pilots are ashore. Dutch.
1 26 PiPKts.— Pi* ATES.— PicnntE.— PiitK.— Pin.
II. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest
does not attend the unskilful words of a passenger.
Sidney,
13. The paleness of the pilot is sign of a storm.
14. The rock makes the.pilot. Cingalese.
15. When there is no wind every man is a pilot.
>r.
Pipers.
I. Pipers don't pay fiddlers.
Pirates.
I. Pirates make cheap pennyworths of their
pillage.
Pictnre.
1. A picture is a poem without words. Zo/rVi.
2. A picture is a silent poem, and a poem a
speaking picture. Simonides.
3. Painted pictures are dead speakers.
Pike.
I. The pike grows big on small fry.
Pitt.
1. He who does not pick up a pin cares nothing
for his wife. Sp.
2. See a pin and let it lie, you'll want a pin
before you die. Fr.
3. The prick of a pin is enough to make an em-
pire insipid for a time.
Pine.,
I. The pine wishes herself a shrub when the axe
is at her root.
Pitch.
I. He that handleth pitch shall foul his fingers.
2. He that touchelh pitch shall be defiled there-
with. £idle.
3. He who handles pitch besmears himself. Ger.
4. If thou touches! pitch thou shah be defiled.
S- They that touch pitch will be defiled. SAais.
Pitcher.
1, If the pitcher knocks against a stone, woe to
the pitcher; and if the stone knocks against the
pitcher, woe to the pitcher. Sf.
2, Little pitchers have great ears,
3. Little pitchers have long ears.
4, The pitcher does not go so often to the water
but it comes home broken at last.
5. The pitcher goes often to the fountain, and
once not. JIf. Greek.
6. Whether the pitcher strike the stone or the
stone the pitcher, woe to the pitcher.
Pity.
I. Better be envied than pitied.
Fr., Hal., Dutch, M. Greek.
a. Foolish pity sfwils a city,
3, For pity is the virtue of the law,
And none but tyrants use it cruelly. Shaks.
4, He hath a tear for pity, and a hand as open
as the day for melting charily. Shaks.
5, He that hath pity on the poor lendeth to the
Lord. Bible.
6, He that pitieth another remembereth himself.
7, No beast so fierce but knows some touch of
pity. Shaks.
128 Place.— Plagues.— Plain Dealing.
8. Pity and need make all flesh kin.
9. Pity cureth envy,
to. Pity is akin to love.
11. Pity melts the mind to love. Dryden,
12. Prudent cruelty is better than foolish pity.
13. We have a great pity for a man who is ruin-
ing himself, but very little for one that is ruined.
14. Wherever we meet misery we owe pity.
Place.
I. There is a place and means for every man
alive. Shaks,
Plagues.
I. Who has no plagues makes himself some. ItaL
Plain Dealing.
1. Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that wear
it are out of fashion.
2. Plain dealing is dead, and died without issue.
3. Plain dealing is more praised than practised.
4. Plain dealing is a jewel but they that use it
die beggars.
Plain Speaking.
1. Call a spade a spade. Plutarch.
2. Figs he calls figs, a spade a spade.
3. " Never mind," said Philip, " the Macedonians
are a blunt people ; they call a spade a spade."
Kennedy's Demosthenes^ voL 1.,/. 249.
4. He hath been at London to call a strea a
straw and a waw a wall.
Planting.
I. He who plants a walnut tree expects not to
eat of the fruit.
Plants.— PLASTEk.— Play.
1^9
2. Plant near a vineyard, reside near a town.
3. Plant the crab tree where you will, it will
never bear pippios.
Plants.
I* Noble plants suit not a noble soil.
Plaster.
1. A plaster is but small amends for a broken
head. •
2. That is a prodigious plaster for so small a sore.
3. The bed is the best plaster for a wounded
foot. Ger,
Play.
1. An hour of play discovers more than a year
of conversation.
2. As good play for nothing as work for nothings
3. Gie o'er when the play is good.
4. He plays best who wins. Fr,^ Ger,
5. He plays you as fair as if he picked your
pocket.
6. If thy cast be bad mend it with good play.
7. It is best to play with equals.
8. It is not an art to play but it is a very good
art to leave off play. ItaL
9. It is well to leave off playing when the game
is at the best. Fr,
10. It signifies nothing to play well if you lose.
11. Play at small games rather than stand out.
Shaks.
12. Play not with a man until you hurt him, nor
jest till you shame him.
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Pleasx.
\
13. Play's gude while it is play*
14. The less play the better.
15. The play won't pay the candles.
16. We should play to live, not live to play.
17. What is play to the strong is death to the
weak. Dan.
18. What is sport to the cat is death to the
mouse. Ger,^ Dan.
19. What's play to you is death to us. {Fable of
thi boys stoning the frogs.)
Please.
1. He is not yet bom who can please everybody.
Dan.
2. He labors in vain who tries to please every-
body. Zatin.
3. He must be a sad fellow that nobody can
please.
4* He must rise betimes that would please
everybody. Dutch.
5. He that would please all and himself too,
Undertakes what he cannot do.
6. If you be not pleased put your hand in your
pocket and please yourself.
7. It is hard to please everybody. Dutch.
8. Jupiter himself cannot please everybody. Latin,
9. No dish pleases all palates alike.
10. One cannot please everybody and one's
father. Fr.
11. To please will always be the wish of benevo-
lence, to be admired the constant aim of ambition.
Dr. Johnson.
Pleasantry^— Pleasure.
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12. We cannot so act as to please all the world.
Petrarch*
13. He had need rise betimes who would please
everybody. Fr.^ Dan.
Pleasantry.
I. Pedants who proscribe pleasantry are like
cripples who decry dancing.
Pleasure.
1. A day's pleasure and a year's grief. M. Greek.
2. A man of pleasure is a man of pains. Young.
3. A pleasant thing never comes too soon. Dan,
4. A pleasure is well paid for that is long ex-
pected. ItaL
5. After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant
smarting. Dan.
6. After the greatest danger is the greatest
pleasure.
7. Cent per cent we pay for every vicious pleas-
ure.
8. Consider not pleasures as they come but as
they go. Aristotle.
9. Every one takes his pleasure where he finds
it. Fr.
10. Fie upon the pleasure fear can corrupt.
La Fontaine.
11. Fly the pleasure that will bite to-morrow.
12. Fly pleasure and it will follow thee.
13. For my own pleasure, as the man said when
he struck his wife.
14. For one pleasure a thousand pains.
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Pleasure.
15. From short pleasure long repentance. Fr.
x6. Hours of pleasure are short.
17. If you long for pleasure you must labor hard
to get it. Chinese.
18. In hawkSy hounds, arms and love for one
pleasure a thousand pains. Fr.
19. In the pursuit of pleasure the greatest virtues
lie neglected. Cicero.
20. Never pleasure without repentance.
21. No sensual pleasures ever lasted but for an
hour.
22. Of sinful pleasure only repentance remains.
23. One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
24. Our pleasures are imagined but our griefs are
real.
25. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men.
26. Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain.
Cowper.
27. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato.
28. Pleasure often comes from pain. Bulwer.
29. Pleasure should follow business. Bea.
30. Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome.
31. Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;
Or, like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever. Bums.
32. Pleasures are the baits of evils. Latin.
33. Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch.
34. Pleasure's the hook of evil. Massinger.
35. Pleasures while they flatter, sting.
Plxrbian. — Pledge. — Pi^nty.
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36. Say to pleasure, *' Gentle Eve, I will have none
of your apples."
37. Short pleasures, long laments.
38. Short pleasure often brings long repentance.
Dan,
39. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden,
40. That is a cursed pleasure that makes a fool.
41. The most delightful pleasures cloy without
variety. Syrus,
42. The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting
more.
43. The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain.
44. There is little due to pleasure but much to
health.
45. There is no pleasure but palls and all the
more if it costs nothing. Sp,
46. True grandeur is to govern our passions and
true pleasure to enjoy ourselves. La Fontaine,
Plebeian.
I. It is dangerous for a plebeian to gmmble in
public. Syrus,
Pledge.
1. Beware of a pledge that eats. For,
2. He has a good pledge of the cat who has her
skin. Fr,
3. Of the good man a good pledge and of the
bad neither pledge nor surety. For,
Plenty.
1. It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is
necessary^
2. Plenty is dainty.
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Pleasure.
15. From short pleasure long repentance. Fr.
x6. Hours of pleasure are short.
17. If you long for pleasure you must labor hard
to get it. Chinese.
18. In hawkSy hounds, arms and love for one
pleasure a thousand pains. Fr.
19. In the pursuit of pleasure the greatest virtues
lie neglected. Cicero,
20. Never pleasure without repentance.
21. No sensual pleasures ever lasted but for an
hour.
22. Of sinful pleasure only repentance remains.
23. One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
24. Our pleasures are imagined but our griefs are
real.
25. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men.
26. Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain.
Cowper.
27. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato.
28. Pleasure often comes from pain. Bulwer.
29. Pleasure should follow business. Bea.
30. Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome.
31. Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;
Or, like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever. Bums.
32. Pleasures are the baits of evils. Latin.
33. Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch,
34. Pleasure's the hook of evil. Massinger.
35. Pleasures while they flatter, sting.
mim
Pleb bian. — Pledge. — Plenty.
133
36. Say to pleasure, ** Gentle Eve, I will have none
erf your apples."
37. Short pleasures, long laments.
38. Short pleasure often brings long repentance.
39. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden,
40. That is a cursed pleasure that makes a fool.
41. The most delightful pleasures cloy without
variety. Syrus,
42. The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting
more.
43. The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain.
44. There is little due to pleasure but much to
health.
45. There is no pleasure but palls and all the
more if it costs nothing. Sp,
46. True grandeur is to govern our passions and
true pleasure to enjoy ourselves. La Fontaine,
Plebeian.
I. It is dangerous for a plebeian to gnimble in
public. Syrus,
Pledge.
1. Beware of a pledge that eats. For,
2. He has a good pledge of the cat who has her
skin. Fr,
3. Of the good man a good pledge and of the
bad neither pledge nor surety. For,
Plenty.
i. It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is
necessary^ ;
2. Plenty is dainty.
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Pleasure.
15. From short pleasure long repentance. Fr,
x6. Hours of pleasure are short.
17. If you long for pleasure you must labor hard
to get it. Chinese.
18. In hawkSy hounds, arms and love for one
pleasure a thousand pains. Fr.
19. In the pursuit of pleasure the greatest virtues
lie neglected. Cicero.
20. Never pleasure without repentance.
21. No sensual pleasures ever lasted but for an
hour.
22. Of sinful pleasure only repentance remains.
23. One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
24. Our pleasures are imagined but our griefs are
real.
25. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men.
26. Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain.
Cowper.
27. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato.
28. Pleasure often comes from pain. Bulwer.
29. Pleasure should follow business. Bea.
30. Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome.
31. Pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;
Or, like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever. Bums.
32. Pleasures are the baits of evils. Latin.
33. Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch.
34. Pleasure's the hook of evil. Massinger.
35. Pleasures while they flatter, sting.
Pl^ EI an . — Pledg e. — Plenty.
133
36. Say to pleasure, *' Gentle Eve, I will have none
of your apples."
37. Short pleasures, long laments.
38. Short pleasure often brings long repentance.
Dan.
39. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden,
40. That is a cursed pleasure that makes a fool.
41. The most delightful pleasures cloy without
variety. Syrus,
42. The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting
more.
43. The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain.
44. There is little due to pleasure but much to
health.
45. There is no pleasure but palls and all the
more if it costs nothing. Sp,
46. True grandeur is to govern our passions and
true pleasure to enjoy ourselves. La Fontaine,
Plebeian.
I. It is dangerous for a plebeian to gnimble in
public. Syrus,
Pledge.
1. Beware of a pledge that eats. For,
2. He has a good pledge of the cat who has her
skin. Fr.
3. Of the good man a good pledge and of ^he
bad neither pledge nor surety. For.
Plenty.
1. It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is
necessary^ ;
2. Plenty is dainty.
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Plot.— Plough, Ploughing.
Plot.
1. A mischievous plot may produce a good end.
2. A tragical plot may produce a comical con-
clusion.
3. Who cannot be crushed by a plot. Shaks.
Plough, Ploughing.
1. A plough that worketh shines, but still water
stinks. Dutch.
2. An ox and an ass don't yoke well to the
same plough. Dutch,
3. De plough pint is close kin to de meal bag.
American Negro.
4. Drive not too many ploughs at once ; some
will make foul work.
5. He that would by the plough thrive.
Himself must either hold or drive.
6. He who ploughs with young oxen makes
crooked furrows. Ger.
7. If your plough be jogging, you may have
meat for your horses.
8. Ne'er put the plough afore the owsen.
9. Plough deep and you will have plenty of
corn. Sf.
10. Plough deep while sluggards sleep,
And you will have corn to sell and keep.
11. Plough or not plough you must pay your rent.
Sp.
12. Take care of your plough and your plough
will take care of you. Ger.
13. The plough goes not well if the ploughman
hold it not.
Po»M.—Po«T.— Poetry.— PowoK. 1 3 5
Poem.
I. Let your poem be kept nine years. Horace.
Poet.
1. God has chosen a poet generally when he has
a message to give.
2. It is not good to be the poet of a village. Ger.
3. Ne'er
Was flattery lost on poet's ear,
A simple race, they waste their toil
For the vain tribute of a smile. Scott.
4. Poets are bom, but orators are made.
5. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of
the world. Bea.
6. The poet is bom, not made. (JPoeta tuzcitur,
notfit.)
7. The poet of all sorts of artificers is proudest
of his work.
8. Those who are poets can make soup of
sausage skewers. Hans Andersen.
9. To a poet even a rush may be vocal. 7\irk.
1. Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows,
and of lending existence to nothing. Burke.
2. There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know. Cowper.
Poison.
1. Poison and the dagger are the Eastern bill of
rights.
2. Poison quells poison. Jtal.
3. Poison still is poison though drunk in gold.
Massmger.
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Pleasure.
15. From short pleasure long repentance. Fr.
i6. Hours of pleasure are short.
17. If you long for pleasure you must labor hard
to get it. Chinese.
18. In hawks, hounds, arms and love for one
pleasure a thousand pains. Fr.
19. In the pursuit of pleasure the greatest virtues
lie neglected. Cicero,
20. Never pleasure without repentance.
21. No sensual pleasures ever lasted but for an
hour.
22. Of sinful pleasure only repentance remains.
23. One day of pleasure is worth two of sorrow.
24. Our pleasures are imagined but our griefs are
real.
25. Pleasure gives law to fools, God to wise men.
26. Pleasure is deaf when told of future pain.
Cowper,
27. Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.
Plato,
28. Pleasure often comes from pain. Bulwer.
29. Pleasure should follow business. Bea,
30. Pleasure that comes too thick grows fulsome.
31. Pleasures are like p>oppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ;
Or, like the snowfall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever. Bums.
32. Pleasures are the baits of evils. Latin.
33. Pleasures steal away the mind. Dutch.
34. Pleasure's the hook of evil. Massinger.
35. Pleasures while they flatter, sting.
Plebeian. — Pledge. — Plenty.
133
36. Say to pleasure, ** Gentle Eve, I will have none
of your apples."
37. Short pleasures, long laments.
38. Short pleasure often brings long repentance.
Dan,
39. Sweet is pleasure after pain. Dryden,
40. That is a cursed pleasure that makes a fool.
41. The most delightful pleasures cloy without
variety. Syrus,
42. The pleasures we enjoy are lost by coveting
more.
43. The reward of unlawful pleasure is lawful pain.
44. There is little due to pleasure but much to
health.
45. There is no pleasure but palls and all the
more if it costs nothing. Sp,
46. True grandeur is to govern our passions and
true pleasure to enjoy ourselves. La Fontaine,
Plebeian.
I. It is dangerous for a plebeian to gnimble in
public. Syrus,
Pledge.
1. Beware of a pledge that eats. For,
2. He has a good pledge of the cat who has her
skin. Fr,
3. Of the good man a good pledge and of the
bad neither pledge nor surety. For,
Plenty.
1. It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is
necessarv,
2. Plenty is dainty.
mm
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Plot.— Plough, Ploughing.
Plot.
1. A mischievous plot may produce a good end.
2. A tragical plot may produce a comical con-
clusion.
3. Who cannot be crushed by a plot. SAaks.
Plough, Ploughing.
1. A plough that worketh shines, but still water
stinks. Dutch.
2. An ox and an ass don't yoke well to the
same plough. Dutch.
3. De plough pint is close kin to de meal bag.
American Negro.
4. Drive not too many ploughs at once ; some
will make foul work.
5. He that would by the plough thrive.
Himself must either hold or drive.
6. He who ploughs with young oxen makes
crooked furrows. Gcr.
7. If your plough be jogging, you may have
meat for your horses.
8. Ne'er put the plough afore the owsen.
9. Plough deep and you will have plenty of
com. Sp,
10. Plough deep while sluggards sleep,
And you will have corn to sell and keep.
11. Plough or not plough you must pay your rent.
Sp.
12. Take care of your plough and your plough
will take care of you. Ger.
13. The plough goes not well if the ploughman
hold it not.
PoKM. — Poet. — Pobtrv. — Poison. | jc
. Let your poem be kept nine years. Horace.
1. God has chosen a poet geneTally when he has
a message to give.
2. It is not good to be the poet of a village. Ger,
3. Ne'er
Was flattery lost on poet's ear,
A simple race, they waste their toil
For the vain tribute of a smile. Seett.
4. Poets are born, but orators are made.
5. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of
the world, Bea.
6. The poet is bom, not made. (Poeta nacitur,
m,tjit.)
7. The poet of all sorts of artificers is proudest
of his work.
8. Those who are poets can make soup of
sausage skewers. Ham Andersen.
9. To a poet even a rush may be vocal. Jiirk.
Poetry.
I. Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows,
and of lending existence to nothing. Burke.
3, There is a pleasure in poetic pains
Which only poets know, Cowper.
I. Poison and the dagger are the Eastern bill of
rights.
z. Poison quells poison. Itai.
3. Poison still is poison though drunk in gold.
Matsmger,
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PouL— Policy. — Pouteness.
4. The antidote before the poison. {To offer an
excuse before an €tccusatian^ . . s Latin,
5. What does not poison, fattens. ItaL
6. What's one man's poison, Signor,
Is another's meat or drink.
Beautnont and Fletcher.
% Pole.
I. A Pole would rather steal a horse on Sunday
than eat butter or milk on Friday. Ger,
Policy.
1 . Policy goes beyond strength. Fr.
2. Policy may be virtuous as well as vicious.
Politeness.
1. A hunchback making a bow. {Excessive
politeness^ Chinese^
2. A civil denial is better than a rude grant
3. Hat in hand goes through the land. Ger,
4. Politeness is benevolence in small things.
Macaulay.
^ 5. To be truly polite remember you must be
polite at all times and under all circumstances.
6. A man without ceremony had need of great
merit in its place.
7. After the land's manner is mannerly. Dutch.
8. As charity covers a multitude of sins before
God, so does politeness before men. Greville.
9. At Ron^e do as Rome does.
10. Cap in hand never did any harm. Ital.
% II. One never loseth anything by politeness.
12, One outward civility is current pay for
another.
PouTiciANS. — Politics.— Ponder. — Pools. — Poor, i yj
Politicians.
1. Old politicians chew on wisdom past. Pope.
2. Politicians never love nor hate. Chesterfield.
Politics.
1. In p>olitics nothing is contemptible. Bea,
2. There are no miracles in politiq/s. Maga.
Ponder.
I. Ponder long before you act.
Pools.
I. Standing pools gather filth.
Poor.
1. A fallen rich man may make a good master,
but not an enriched poor man. Ital.
2. A lamb is as dear to a poor man as an ox to
the rich.
3. A north wind has no com and a poor man no
friend. Sp.
. 4. A poor man can gain nothing by contending
with the great. Cingalese,
5. A poor man has few acquaintances. Dan.
6. A poor man has no friends. Ashantees {Africa).
7. A poor man has not many marks for fortune
to shoot at.
8. A poor man is all schemes. Sp.
9. A poor man is hungry after eating. Por.
10. A poor man's joy has much alloy. Dan.
11. A poor man's shilling is but a penny.
12. A poor man wants something, a covetous
man all things.
13. A poor man's debt makes a great noise.
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Poor.
14. A ragged sack holds no grain, a poor man is
not taken into counsel. Ital.
15. As long as there are some poorer than you,
praise God even if you are unshod. Gipsy.
16. Be considerate toward the poor.
17. For poor people, small coin.
18. Every poor man is counted a fool.
19. He is not poor that hath not much, but ^ he
that craves much.
20. He is not poor who has a competency. Hotkue.
21. He is poor indeed who can promise nothing.
22. He is too poor to buy a rope to hang himself.
Gir.
23. He who devours the substance of the poor,
will find at length a bone to choke him. Fr.
24. If poor, act with caution.
25. Look on the poor with gentle eyes, for in
such habits often angels desire alms. M<issinger.
26. Much wisdom is lost in poor men's mouths.
Ger.
27. Much wisdom b smothered in a poor man's
head. Dutch.
28. Much wit is lost in a poor man's purse. Gir.
29. No one is poor but he who thinks himself so.
Par.
30. No one so hard upon the poor as the pauper
who has got into power. Dan.
31. Not he who has little, but he who wishes for
more, is poor. Seneca.
32. Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
Shaks.
Poor. 1 3g
33. Poor folks are glad of pottafe.
34. Poor folks say " ihank you " for a little,
35. Poor folk's wisdom goes for little. Dutch.
36. Poor men do penance for rich men's sins. Ital.
37. Poor men have no souls. {So think the rich.)
38. Poor men seek meat for their stomachs, rich
men stomach for their meat.
39. Poor men's money and cowards' weapons are
often flourished. /'a/-
40. Poor men's tables are soon spread.
41. Poor men's words have little weight. Greek.
41. Poor people's words go many to the sackful.
Ger.
43. Poor, what he can ; rich, what he will.
M. Greek.
44. Poor without debt is better than a prince.
45. That man is not poor who has the use of
things necessary, Horace.
46. The dainties of the great are the tears of the
poor.
47. The devil wipes his tail with the poor man's
pride.
48. The impartial earth is open to the poor as
well as the sons of kings. Horaet.
49. The pleasures of the mighty are the terrors of
the poor.
50. The poor advanced makes friends of enemies,
For who not needs, shall never lack a friend.
Skaks.
I40
Poor.
51. The poor ye always have with you.
New Testament.
52. The poor are rich when they are satisfied. Ger.
53. The poor do penance for the follies of their
superiors. ItaL
54. The poor can live in one house together when
two kings cannot in a kingdom. Ger,
55. The poor cannot, the rich will not. Ger,
56. The poor live secure. Ger,
57. The poor must dance as the rich pipe. Ger,
58. The poor man's honor is worth more than the
rich man's gold. Ger.
59. The poorest man may in his cottage bid defi-
ance to all the force of the crown. Wm, Pitt,
60. The poor man eats at double cost. Dan,
61. The poor man has his crop destroyed by hail
every year. Sp,
62. The poor is aye put to the worst. Scotch,
63. The poor pay for all.
64. The poor man's budget is full of schemes. 1^.
65. The poor man's coin always grows thin. Dan,
66. The poor man seeks for food, the rich man
for appetite. Dan,
67. The poor man's penny unjustly obtainjed is a
coal of fire in the rich man's purse.
68. The poor man's wisdom is as useless as a
palace in a wilderness. Gaelic.
69. The poor man turns his cake and another
comes and takes it away.
70. The poor man wants much, the miser every-
thing
Poor.
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71. The poor man must keep his word, and the
rich when it suits him. Ger,
72. The poor pour, and the rich drink, the wine.
Ger.
73. The poor rich man is emphatically poor.
74. The poor sing free throughout the world. Ger.
75. The poor sit in Paradise on the first benches.
Ger.
76. The poor trying to imitate the powerful per-
ish. Phadrus.
*l*l. The wise discourses oiE a poor man go for
nothing.
78. Inhere are many things that may not be
uttered by men in threadbare coats. Juvenal.
79. There is God's poor, and the devil's poor;
the first from Providence, the other from vice.
80. To contemn the poor because of his poverty
is to affront God's providence.
81. We give the rich, and take from the poor. Ger.
82. What the poor are to the poor none know
but themselves and God. Charles Dickens.
83. When poor, liberal ; when rich, penurious. Sp,
84. When the poor become rich they sink the
village. Ger.
85. When you eat think of the poor. Cingalese.
86. Wherever a poor man is, there is his destiny.
M. Greek.
87. Who closes his ear to the poor, Peter will not
hear when he knocks. Ger.
88. Whoso stoppeth his ear at the cry of the poor,
shall cry himself and not be heard. Hebrew.
1^2 PooR-Housis.— Pope.— Port.
89. Withhold not the wages of the poor.
Poor-houses.
I. The poor-houses are filled with the honestest
people. Sp.
Pope.
1. After one pope another is made. Ital.
2. Every priestling conceals a popeling. Ger.
3. He that has the pope for his cousin need not
fear hell fire. S/.
4. He who has the pope for his cousin may
soon be a cardinal. Ger.
5. He who never budges from Paris will never
be pope. Sp.
6. If you would be a pope you must think of
nothing else.
7. It is hard to sit in Rome an' fight wi' the
pope.
8. One living pope is better than ten dead. 7W.
9. The corpse of the pope takes up no more
ground than the sacristan's. Dtm Quixote.
10. The pope and a peasant know more than the
pope alone. Ital.
11. We cannot all be pope of Rome. Ger.
Port.
1. Any port in a storm.
2. It is not every man's lot to gain the port of
Corinth. (A part difficult to entir.) Bonue.
3. Many have come to a port after a storm.
4. No wind can do him good who steers for no
port.
POETUGOESE. — POSSESS ION.
5. The worse the passage the more welcome the
port.
Portuguese.
1. A Portuguese apprentice, who can't sew, yet
would be cutting out. Sf.
t. A bird in a cage is worth a hundred at large.
/to/.
3. A crown in pocket doth you more good than
an angel spent.
3. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
4. A sparrow in hand is worth a pheasant that
flieth by.
5. A thousand cranes in the air are not worth
one sparrow in the fist. Egyptian.
6. Better a feather in the hand than a bird in
the air. Ger.
7. Better a finch in the hand than a parrot m
the Indies.
8. Better a leveret in the kitchen than a wild
boar in the forest. Livonian.
9. Betier a mouse in the pot than no flesh at all.
10. Him that is in possession God helps. Jfal,
11. I'll not change a cottage in possession for a
12. One bird in the net is better than a hundred
flying.
13. One quill is better in the hand, than geese
upon the strand. Dutch.
14. Possession and good right with lance in hand.
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Possi B LE. — Poster ity . — Pot.
15. Possession is as good as a title. Fr.
16. Possession is eleven points in the law. and
they say there are but twelve.
17. Possession is nine points of the law.
18. Possession is the grave of pleasure.
19. Prospect is often better than possession.
20. Rather possess a freehold though but a cot-
tage than live in a palace belonging to another.
Possible.
I. Madam, if it is possible, it is done ; if it is
not possible, it shall be done. Fr.
Posterity.
I. Posterity allows to every man his true value
and his proper honors. Tacitus,
Pot.
1. A cracked pot never fell oflf the hook. Ital,
2. A little pot is soon hot. Dutch.
3. Little pots soon boil over. Ger.^ Dutch.
4. Many a good drop of broth is made in an old
pot.
5. That which will not make a pot may make a
pot lid.
6. The flawed pot lasts longest.
7. The pot boils best on your own hearth. Dan.
8. The pot that boils too much loses its flavor.
For.
9. Tis God's blessing makes the pot boil.
10. When the pot boils over it cools itself.
11. While the pot boils friendship blooms. Ger.
12. Who boils his pot with chips makes his broth
smell of smoke.
■
POVBRTV.
1
>3
You may cook in small pots
as well as in 1
large
ones.
Poyerty.
Dan. J
1
All is lost when the people fear death less ■
than
poverty.
Chinese. ■
*
A narrow fortune is a cramp to
a great mind. H
L' Estrange. H
3
A threadbare coat is armor
;>roof against H
highwaymen.
I
4-
Bear wealth— poverty will bear itself. |
5
Belter be poor than wicked.
■
6
Better poor with honor than rich with shame. |
Duteh. ■
7-
Deep draughts and long morning slumbers ^
make a man poor.
Dan. m
8.
Do not through fear of poverty surrender H
liberty, (^ai/e of the horse and the stag.) ^
9-
Eveiy one likes to wipe his shoes on poverty. ^
Ger. 1
lO.
Hard is the path from poverty
Latin. M
11.
He bears poverty very ill who is
ashamed of it. H
11.
He becometh poor who dealeth with a slack H
hand
Bible. ■
"3-
He has no share in the sun,
'■ '-. " of-J'^'y ■
poor.
M. Greek. ■
>4-
He whose expenses exceed his
receipts shall ^k
come
to poverty.
Cingalese. 1
'5-
His wit got wings and would have flown, J
But poverty still kept him down
^^^H
i6.
Honest poverty is thinly sown.
^^H
B
^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^B
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POVBRTV.
17. How many sink iDto the sordid hut of cheer-
less poverty. Thomson.
18. If you would gto^ poor without perceiving it
employ worlnnen and go to sleep. For.
19. It is hard to find one who bears poverty with
a noble spirit AHstides.
20. It is more easy to praise poverty than to bear
it. Ital.
21. It is no sin to be poor. Cr€r.
22. Kin or no kin, woe to him who has nothing.
Ital.
23. My poverty, not my will, consents. Shaks.
24. No better masters than poverty and want.
'Dutch.
25. No man lives so poor as he was bom.
26. Nothing to be got without pains but poverty.
27. Old age and poverty are two heavy burthens,
either is enough. Ger,
28. Pain, distress, and poverty have frightful
looks. Locke.
29. Poverty and hunger have many learned dis-
ciples. Ger.
30. Poverty and love are hard to hide.
31. Poverty breeds strife.
*
32. Poverty crsfves knahy things, but avarice more.
ItaL
33. Poverty has no kin. ItcU.
34. Poverty has no shame. Sp.
35. Poverty is a complication of evils.
36. Poverty is a good that all men hate. Ger.
POVERTY. ,4;
37. Poverty is a shirt of fire. Turk,
38. Poverty is a sort of leprosy. Fr.
39. Poverty is cunning, it catches even a fox. CriT.
40. Poverty is death in another form. Latin.
41. Poverty is no shame, but being ashamed of it
is. Ger.
42. Poverty is no sin. Fr., Sp.
43. Poverty is no sin, but it is a branch of roguery.
sp.
44. Poverty is no sin, but it is terribly incon-
venient.
45. Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only
when it is the effect of idleness, intemperance,
prodigality and folly. Plutarch.
46. Poverty is shamefully bome by a sluggard.
47. Poverty is shamed and persecuted all over
the globe. Lucan.
48. Poverty is the daughter of laziness. Ger.
49. Poverty is the mother of all arts. Ital.
50. Poverty is the mother of health.
51. Poverty is the reward of idleness. Dutch.
ji. Poverty is the sister of a sound mind.
53. Poverty is the sixth sense. Ger.
54. Poverty is the worst guard to chastity.
55. Poverty makes a man acquainted with strange
bedfellows.
56. Poverty makes a man mean.
57. Poverty never sped well in love. For.
58. Poverty on an old man's back is a heavy
burthen.
1^ Poverty.
59. Poverty parte^h friends (or fellowship).
60. Poverty shows us who are our friends and
who are our enemies. Latin,
6i. Poverty trieth friends.
62. Pride and poverty are ill met yet often to-
gether.
63. Prison and Lent were made for the poor.. Sp,
64. The poverty of the poor shall be at an end
when they shall learn to minister to the wants of
each other. Cingalese,
65. The worst part of poverty is to bear it im-
patiently.
66. Their rise is one of difficulty whose minds
are impeded by poverty. Latin.
67. They only are ashamed of poverty who are
poor against their will. Aristides.
68. Though poverty bring sorrow, riches create
inquietude.
69. To be poor the Greeks did not hold scanda-
lous unless it was due to one's own indiscretion.
Fiddmg.
70. To be poor without being free is the worst
state into whidi man can fall. * Fr.
71. To feed many persons and to build many
houses is the readiest way to poverty. Greek,
72. Unmanly poverty subdues the heart.
Cankers each wound and sharpens-every dart
CaUinadms.
. 73. When mooey is sent flying out of the. win-
dow, it's poy^^xxNues in at the door..
p
POWEB.— PRACTICI.
'49 ^J
74.
, Who doth sing so merry a note,
^^1
As be who cannot change a groat ? ^^^^
Power,
^^™
I.
AH human power is but comparative. ^|
2.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on fl
the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. ^^^^|
Washington. ^^^H
3-
For sovereign power al! laws are
broken. Sp. ^^^H
4.
He is most powerful who governs himself. ^^^^|
Seneea. ^^H
5-
No power, no respect.
^^^H
6.
Power can achieve more by gentle means ^^^H
than by violence.
^^^^1
7.
Power goes before talent.
£>aH. ^^H
8.
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes ^^^^
whate
I'er it touches.
Shelley. ^H
9-
Power on my head or the raven o
<n my corpse. ^^^H
10.
Power weakeneth the wicked.
^^^H
II.
The nature of sovereign power i
to en- ^^^H
durei
\ rival.
^^^H
12.
When power puts in its plea, the laws are si- ^^^^
lent.
Practice.
Massinger. ^^^^H
I.
Practice makes perfect.
^^^1
2.
Practice makes perfect. Literal.
: The boxer's ^^^H
fist must keep to its task and the singer's
rest ^^^1
must ask.
^^^1
3-
Practice makes the master.
^^^H
4-
H
Practice not your art, and 'twill i
soon depart ^^^|
ISO
Pkaisb.^
5. Practice what yon preach. ' ^-
6. Suppose you wish to excel before an expert,
practice well. Chinese.
I. A man finds no sweeter voice, in the world
than that which chants hb praises. Fontm^ik*
a. A pdS of wind and popular praise weigh
alHce. , r
3. Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is
praise indeed. TTiomas Morton.
4. Be not the trumpeter of your own praise.
Gmk.
5. Damn with faint praise.
6. Even too much praise is a burden. ^ .
7. Every pedleipratseslus own. needles, : M
8. Every potter praises his own pot and the
more if it be cracked. Ital.^ Sp,
9. Faint praise is akin tO abuse.
10. Full praise must not be given to the; horse
that wins the race, but to the man that keeps the;
stable. Chinese.
• II. €rOod things should be praised. Shakf.
12. He dwells afar from neighbors who is fain to
praise himself.
13. He is a fool that praises himself and. a mad-
man that speaks ill of himself. Dan.
14. He that doeth good for praise only meriteth
but a puff of wind.
15. He that is loudly praised will be chunorously
censured.
16. He that praiseth bestows a favor, and he that
detracts commits a robbery.
17. He that praiseth publicly will slander pri-
vately.
18. He that refuseth praise the lirst time does it
because he would have it the second.
ig. He who praises himself befouls himself. Hal.
30. He who praises himself must have bad neigh-
bors. Ger.
21. If thou wouldst have praise, die, Welsh.
23. In doing what we ought we deserve no praise
because it is our duty. St. Augustine.
33. It is more difficult to praise rightly than to
24. It is not good praising a ford until one be
over.
25. Let another man praise thee and not thine
own mouth.
26. Let every man praise the bridge he goes
over.
27. Neither praise nor dispraise any before you
know (hem.
18. Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thine ac-
tions serve the turn.
39. Neither speak well or ill of yourself ; if well,
men will not believe you, if ill they will believe a
great deal more than you say,
30. Never praise a man tor being like a woman,
nor a woman for resembling a man. Quadaretus.
31. Never sound Ihe trumpet of your own praise.
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PftAISX.
32. None ever gives the lie to him that praiseth
him.
53. Of whom to be disprais'd were no smiall praise.
MUUm.
34* Old praise dies unless you feed it.
35. One has only to die to be praised. Ger.
36. Our praises are our wages. Shaks.
37. Praise a fool and you may make him useful
38. Praise doth a wise man good and a fool
harm.
39. Praise borrowed from ancestors is but sorry
praise. Dan.
40. Praise from Sir Hubert is praise indeed. {The
correct quotation is as above.) Thomas Morton.
41. Praise is not pudding.
42. Praise is pleasing to him that thinks he de-
serves it.
43. Praise b the hire of virtue.
44. Praise makes good men better and bad men
worse.
45. Praise not the unworthy on account of their
wealth. Bias.
46. Praise not yourself. Cingalese.
47. Praise paves the way to friendship. Dan.
48. Praise the sea and keep on land. Fr.^ Ital.
49. Praise undeserved is satire in disguise.
Broadhurst,
50. Praise undeserved is scandal in disguise.
Pope.
Prate. —Praying. Ijj
.5Z. Praise without profit puts little in the pot.
52. Praise yourself, basket, for I want to sell you.
Sf.
53. Praises are a spur to virtue, but flatteries are
a subtle poison. Petrarch.
54. Praising is not loving. Ger.
55. Self-praise defiles.
56. Self-praise is half slander.
57. Self-praise is odious.
58. Self-praise is the ground of hatred.
59. Self-praise stinks.
60. The praise of a wise man is worth a whole
theatre of others. PUtacus.
61. The praise of a fool is censure in disguise.
62. The public is more disposed to censure than
to praise. Addison.
63. The sweetest of all sounds is praise. Xenophcn.
64. The virtues of the young are increased by
praise. Tkeophrastus.
65. They that value not praise will never do any-
thing worthy of it.
66. Too much praise is a burthen.
67. True praise takes root and spreads.
Prate.
1. Prate is but prate, 'tis money buys land.
2. Prate is but prate, but its the duck that lays
the egg.
Praying.
1. A prayer of. a dog does not reach heaven. S^.
2. A short prayer ascends to heaven. Sf.
3. Affliction teaches a wicked man to pray,
prosperity never. Brnjanson.
4. Apollo hears when invoked. Latin.
5. Don't say amen to an iinacceptable prayer.
Turk.
6. He has milka prayer, but little devotion.
7. He invokes Heaven if a flea bite him. Latin.
8. He prayeth well who loveth well.
Both man and bird and beast ; .
He prayeth b^st who loveth best ,
All things both great and small. Coleridge.
9^ He that wpuld learn to pray let him go. to sea.
10. More things are wrought by prayer than this
world dreams of. Tennyson.
1 1 . Much praying but no piety.
1%. None can pray well but he that lives well.
13* Pray to the saint until you have passed the
slough., .DuUk.
14. Prayfsr is the voice of faith.
15. Prayer should be the key of the day ^nd the
lock of the night.
16. Prayers move the hand that moves the- uni-
verse. . .
17. Rather go rob with good men than pray with
bad. For.
18. Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees. Cowper.
19. The fewer the words the better the prayer.
Ger.
20. The prayer of the stranger is accepted.
PEEACHtt. P«*CHIHa 155
21. The prayers that are forced do not penetrate
into heaven. ThtA:
22. The stranger's prayer is heard. .
23. " They shall have no more of our prayers
than we of their pies," quoth the vicar of Layton.
24. When the pirate prays there is great danger.
25. Who knows not how to pray, let him go sail
the sea. //a/.
Preacher, Preaching.
1. A young preacher, a new hell.
2. Good preachers give fruits, not flowers, //a/,
3. He is a good preacher who follows his own
preaching. Gtr.
4. He is past preaching who does not care to
do well. />-.
5. He preaches well that lives well.
6. He preaches patience that never knew pain.
7. He that will not be saved needs no preacher.
Ger.
8. He who will not go to heaven needs no
preaching. Gen
9. It is bad preaching to deaf ears. Ger.
10. It is easy preaching to the fasting with a
full belly. //a/.
11. It is easy to preach fasting with a full belly.
12. The life of a pious minister is visible rhetoric.
looker,
13. The most disorderly students make the most
pious preachers. Ger.
14. There are many preachers who don't hear
themselves Ger.
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Precaution.-^Prbcbpt.— Precious.— pRKCiPiTiMTB.
15. There is no good in preaching to the
hungry.
16. You canna preach o^t of your own pulpit
Precaation.
1, Precaution b better than repentance. Greek.
2. Precaution said ''Good friend, this counsel
keep, strip not until you're laid to sleep." DuUh.
Precept.
1. Precept begins, example completes. Fr.
2. Precepts may lead, but examples draw.
Precious.
X. Precious ointments are put in small boxes.
Fr.
2. Precious things are mostly in small compass.
DuUh.
Precipitate.
I. Precipitate counsel, perilous deed. Dan.
Precedence.
1. At a dangerous passage yield precedence.
ItaL
2. Be ye last to go over a deep river.
Precedent.
1. A precedent embalms a principle. Bea.
2. To follow foolish precedents and to wink
with both our eyes, is easier than to think.
Gile^ proverbs.
Precepts.
I. Whatever precepts you give be short. Zn/rVi.
Precocity.
I. Early ripe, early rotten.
Prepared. — Preparation. — Preskmt. 157
2. He dies before he is old who is wise before
his day. ^'^«-
3. Soon fire, soon ashes. Dutch.
4. Soon grass, soon hay. Dutch.
5. Soon old, soon cold; soon old, soon with
God. Gcr-
6. Soon ripe, soon rotten. Latin.
7. So wise so young, they say do never live
long. Shahs.
8. What ripens fast does not last ^
Prepared.
I. It is better to be always prepared than to
suffer once. Latin.
Preparation.
1. Preparation for war is sometimes the best
^ security for peace.
2. Preparation is half the battle, and nothing is
lost by being on one's guard* Dan Quixote.
Present.
I. Past and to come seem best, things present
worst. Shahs.
Presnmption.
I. Presumption first blinds a man, then sets
him running.
Pretence.
1. If you want a. pretence to whip a dog, it is
easy enough to say he ate up the frying-pan.
2. On a little pretext the wolf seizes the sheep.
Ital., Dutch.
3. You have daily to do with the devil and pre-
tend to be frightened at a mouse.
I j8 PwrmillSS.— PHEVENTION.— Prey.^Peide.
4. You pretend the public but intend yourself.
5. You pretend to be a visitor, but are really a
spy.
Prettiness.
1. Prettiness dies quickly.
2. Prettiness makes no pottage.
Prerention.
1. Prevention is better than cure. Coke.
2. Prevention is the best bridle. Feltkam.
Prey.
I. If one should be a prey, how much the bet-
ter
To fall before the lion than the wolf. Shdks.
Pride.
1. A man may have a just esteem of himself
without being proud.
2. A Burston horse and a Cambridge master of
arts will give way to nobody.
3. A clown enriched knows neither relation or
friend. Fr.
4. A little dog, a cow without horns, and a short
man, are generally proud.
5. A man well mounted is always proud. Fr,
6. A proud look makes foul work in a fair face.
7. A proud mind and a poor purse are ill met.
8. A proud pauper and a rich miser are con-
temptible beings. Jtal.
9. A very proud man is always wilful.
10. And the devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility. Ofkridg^-
11. As proud as a cock on his own dunghilL
12. As proud as an apothecary.
13. As proud come behind as go before.
14. But yesterday out of the shell, to-day he
despises the shell. Turi.
15. Decency and decorum are not pride.
16. Every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with
the king's horses.
17. " Fie upon thee, how black thou art," said the
kettle 10 the sauce-pan. £>an.
18. He does not think milk and water of himself.
ig. He is as proud as a peacock, and calls for
ram's milk. M. Greek.
10. He that is proud eats up himself. Shaks.
31. He that is too praud to ask, is too good to
receive.
22. He who is on horseback no longer knows
his own father, Jiussian.
23. He who is puffed up with the first gale of
prosperity will bend beneath the first blast of
adversity.
24. I do bate a proud man, as I hale the engen-
dering of toads. Shaii.
25. I wa'd na ca' the king my cousin.
26. If pride lead the van, beggary brings up the
rear. FrankHn.
fj. If pride were an art, how many doctors we
should have. Jtal.
2S. It is good pride to desire to be the best of
i6o P»iD«.
39. It is not a sign of humility to declaim against
pride.
30. It is pride, not nature, that craves much.
31. Neediness conquers pride.
32. No pride like that of an enriched beggar.
33|. Nothing more thankful than pride when com-
plied with.
33. Of all vice pride loudest calls and for the
largest bowL Votm^.
34. Peacock, look at your legs. Ger.
35. Pride and grace ne'er dwell in one place.
36. Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with
poverty, supped with infamy.
37. Pride continues not. Ger.
38. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst ana cold.
39. Pride feels no cold.
40. Pride goes before and shame follows after.
41. Pride goes hated, cursed and abominated by
all. Hammond.
42. Pride goeth before destruction, and an
haughty spirit before a fall. BMe.
43. Pride had rather go out of the way than go
behind.
44. Pride in prosperity turns to misery in adver-
sity.
45. Pride increaseth our enemies, but putteth our
friends to flight;
46. Pride is as loud a beggar as want and great
deal more saucy.
47. Pride is the mask of one's own faults. Hekrew.
PKIDL ,61 1
48
Pride is the sworn enemy of content. 1
49
Pride is joined with many virtues, chokes H
them all. ^
SO
Pride, like anger, builds among the stars, 1
But pleasure, lark like, rests upon the ground, 1
Vou^. 1
S'-
Pride leaves home on horseback but returns 1
on foot. Ger. J
S»-
Pride loves no man and is beloved by no
53-
Pride may lurk under a threadbare coat.
54.
Pride must have a fall. SAais.
55-
Pride must suffer pain. J/ans Andersen,
S6-
Pride ne'er leaves its master till it gels a fa".
57-
Pride often borrows the cloak of humility.
S8-
Pride scorns a director and choler a coun-
seller
59-
Pride scorns the vulgar, yet lies at its mercy.
6o.
Pride sleeps in a gilded crown, contentment
in a cotton njghlcap. J^rui. ^
6i.
Pride slill is aiming at the best abodes, ■
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. H
Pope. ■
6s.
Pride the first peer and president of hell. ^|
De Foe. ■
63-
Pride the never failing vice of fools. Pope. H
64.
Pride triumphant rears her head, H
A littie while and all her power is fled. ■
Goldtmth. M
6S-
Proud as a peacock, all strut and show. ^^^H
1 62 Pride.
66. Proud looks lose hearts, but courteous words
win them.
67. The best manners are stained by the addition
of pride.
68. The man in boots does not know the man in
shoes.
69. The nobler the blood the less the pride; Dan.
70. The noblest character is stained by the addi-
tion of pride. Ciaudianus.
71. The pride of the poor does not endure. Dan.
72. The pride that holds its head high rarely
picks up anything, whereas modesty like a diver
gathers pearls by keeping his head low. Punch.
73. The proud man, who gets wet through rather
than ride in the carriage of an inferior. Fumh.
74. There are some who despise pride with
greater pride. Jtal.
75. Tis good beating proud folks for they'll not
complain.
76. 'TIS pride and not nature that craves much.
77. Tis pride in fashion that puts humility out of
countenance.
78. When a proud man hears another praised he
thinks himself injured. >
79. When pride rides shame lackeys.
80. When they came to shoe the horses of the
pacha the beetle stretched out his leg.
81. You a gentleman and I a gentleman, who
will milk the cow ? {Satire on pride?) Turk.
82. You a lady, I a lady, who is to put the sow
out of doors ? (Satire on pride.) Gallician.
Priest. 163
83. You gazed at the moon and fell into the
gutter.
Priest.
I. A priest must be the guardian of truth. Ger.
3. A priesjt's pocket is not easily filled. Dan.
3. Bad priests bring the devil into the church.
4. Either fight not with priests or beat them to
death. Ger.
5. Give the priest a drink for the clerk is thirsty.
Jtal.
6. If a priest be a priest, if a ploughman be a
ploughman. M> Greek.
7. It is just the priest should live by the altar.
Fr.
8. Lang standing and little offering makes a
poor priest.
9. Like priest, like people.
10. Priests pay each other no tithes. Ger.
11. Priests pray for enemies but princes kill.
Shaks.
12. Priests should not prate out of the confes-
sional.
13. Such as the priest, such is the clerk.
14. That priest is a fool who decries his relics.
Ital.
15^ The bites, of priests and wolves are hard to
heal. Ger.
16. The priest does more than the physician.
Get.
17. The priest forgets that he was a clerk.
1^4 PRINCX.
i8. The priest to bis book ; tbe peasant to Jiis
plough. Dam.
19. Tbe priests ougbt not to survive tbeir tem-
ples. Tacitus.
30. Tbe quarrel of priests is tbe devil's jubilee.
Ger.
21. Vilify not your parisb priest.
22. Wben tbe priest visits you do not be over-
joyed ; be will soon begin to beg. Russian.
Prince.
1. A good prince does not cut out freedom's
tongue. Ger.
2. A good prince is not tbe object of fear.
Diogenes.
3. A good prince must bave a tongue, a pen and
a beart. Ger.
4. A great prince sbould bave many ears and
many eyes. Ger.
5. A prince ougbt to be aware not only of bis
enemies, but of bis flattering followers. Dumysius.
6. A prince wants a million, a beggar but a
groat.
7. A prince who would possess subjects must
respect tbeir faith. Hindoo.
8. A prince without letters is a pilot without
eyes. Benjonson.
9. A wise prince is covered with a bulwark of
gold.
10. All are not princes who ride with tbe emperor.
DuUh.
■
^^^ Pbikck
165 1
All the virtues that a prince
acquires are so H
man;
misfortunes to the wicked.
CiiHae. ■
11
As princes fiddle, subjects must dance. Ger. H
n
Happy a subject when the prince is guided by |
justic
e, nol his passionate will.
Massinger. ■
14
If the prince wants an apple, the servants ^
take the tree.
Gfr. 1
'S
No prince is poor that has rich subjects. Ger. J
t6
Princes and asses do nothing
unurged. Ger. fl
17
Princes can make knights,
but not learned H
men.
Ger. ■
18
Princes do not think of rendering their sub- 1
jects happy unless when they have nothing else to |
do.
CW.. 1
19
Princes have long arms.
Ital. 1
20.
Princes have long arms and many ears. Ger. 1
11.
Princes keep good reckoning
they never lose M
anything.
"'■ i
22.
Princes know only what they
must. Ger. ■
'3-
Princes or lords may fiourish
or may fade. ^|
Goldsmith. ■
14.
Princes will not be served on
conditions. Fr. ^|
'S-
Princes use men as the husbandmen use bees. H
Fr. ■
36.
Subjects from princes' crimes grow bold. |
Aaron HilL ■
27.
The blemish of a prince who has forfeited his H
word
can never be removed.
Chinest. ■
18.
The hand of the prince is as
rreat as his ler- ^|
riton-
Ger. 1
hJ
1 56 Princiflbs.— Prison.
29. The prince that is feared by many must of
necessity fear many.
30. The prince who deserves the favor of Heaven
should practise and honor the five virtues, charity,
justice, prudence, fidelity and politeness. Chinese.
31. The surest guard for a prince or other chief
is the sincere affections of his people. Plutarch.
32. The vices of a prince draw shoals of follow-
ers,
33. The word of a prince should never be dis-
puted or recalled. Thnour.
34. Their power and their will are the measures
princes take of nght and wrong.
35. There is no prince so bad, whose favorites
and ministers are not worse. Burke.
3(S. They are not all princes who ride with the
Czar.
37. We rise in glory as we sink in pride ;
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Young.
Principles.
I. We are best of all led to men's principles by
what they do. Butler.
• t. Heir feet,' trough faitMess" lea^r^ met the
dirt,
-And oftener changed thefar prindples than
shirt. Young.
PdSOIIe •■ . . ... -r
I. A prison is a hoiise of care, a place .where
none can thrive ;
. A touchstone true to try a friend, a grave for
one alive.
—Prodigal. 167
Sometimes a place of right, sometimes a place
of wrong,
Sometimes a place of rogues and thieves and
honest men among.
Inscription on Edinburgh old Tolboolh.
2, It is better to make conditions in the bush
than in prison, Dan.
Proclamationa.
I. To whisper proclamations is ridiculous.
Procrastioation.
I. Procrastination is the thief of time ;
Year after year it steals lill all are fled. Young,
ProdigaL
**■ 1. The prodigal robs his heir ; the miser himself.
Prodigaiitj.
1. Prodigality and profligacy are twins in every
country. Maga.
Profanity.
1. Nothing will justify profanity.
StoKtwatl Jaekson,
2. That in the captain's but a choleric word
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. SAais.
Profits.
I. For profits smalt as pin heads, they rush from
east to west, Ckintte.
3. Great capital, great profits. Chtnae,
3. Great profits, great risLs. Chinese.
4. Hold back some goods for a thousand days
and you will be sure to sell at a profiL Chinese.
5. Profit is better than fame.
l6g Pkojbcts.— Promise.
6. Small profits and often, are better than large
profits and seldom. Ger.
7. Small profits are sweet. Dan.
8. Small profits on large capital are after all
great. Chinese.
9. Great profits on small capital are after all
small. Chinese.
10. Stock that never lies dead naturally yields a
profit. Chinese.
11. The pain o'ergangs the profit.
12. What's none of my profit shall be none of
my peril.
Projects.
1. Man has many projects but (Sod cuts them
short. M. Greek.
2. Man projects all his life and dies without
realizing. J^r.
Promise.
1. A great many shoes are worn out before a
man does what he says.
2. A promise is a debt. Ger.^ ItcU.
3. A promised dollar is not worth half. Ger,
4. All promises are either broken or kept.
5. Don't promise what you cannot perform.
Turk.
6. Expect nothing from him who promises a
great deal. ^ Ital.
7. Fair promises bind foote' ^ Ital.
8. Give no credit to great promises.
9. He loses his thanks who promises and de-
lays.
Promise.
169
10. He promises like a merchant-man, and pays
like a man-of-war.
11. He ruins himself in promises and clears him-
self by giving nothing. Fr.
12. He that promises too much means nothing.
13. His promises are lighter than the breath th^t
utters them.
14. In the land of promise a man may die of
hunger. Dutch,
15. Lavish promises lessen credit. Horace.
16. Men apt to promise are apt to forget.
17. Neither promise wax to the saint, nor cakes to
the child. M, Greek,
18. No greater promisers than those who have
nothing to give. Dutch.
19. Nothing weighs lighter than a promise. Ger.
20. Promise little and do much.
21. Promises and undressed cloth are apt to
shrink. Dan,
22. Promises are for fools.
23. Promises are like pie-crust, made to be
broken.
24. Promises don't fill the belly. Ger,
25. Promises fill no sack. Ger.
26. Promises make debts and debts make
promises. Dutch.
27. Promises may make friends, but 'tis perform-
ance keeps them.
28. Promises must not fill the place of gifts.
Latin.
I/O
Prophet. — rRopiiBCY.
29. Promising and performing are two things.
jpr., Dutch.
30. Promising is not giving but serves to content
fools. For.
31. Take heed, girl, of the promise of a man, for
it will run like a crab. Sp,
32. There is no piety in keeping an unjust
promise.
33. There is no virtue in a promise unless it be
kept. Dan,
34. Thy promises are like Adonis's garden.
That one day blossomed and fruitful were the
next. Shaks.
35. To promise is easy, to keep it troublesome.
Dan,
36. To promise more butter than bread. Fr^
37. To promise more carts than oxen. Ital,
38. To promise much means giving little. For.
39. When a man repeats a promise again and
again he means to fail you.
40. Who makes no promises has none to perform.
Ger.
41. Who promises much and does little, dines a
fool on hope. Ger,
Prophet. •
1. A prophet is not without honor save in his
own country and in his own house. New Testament.
2. No man is a prophet in his own country.
Prophecy.
I. The best reply to a prophecy is another fore-
cast. New York World {tiewspafer).
Prosperity.
171
Prosperity.
1. All claim kindred with the prosperous. Latin,
2. He that considers in prosperity, will be less
afflicted in adversity.
3. In prosperity no altars smoke. ItaL
4. In prosperity think of adversity. Dutch.
5. In time of affliction a vow, in time of prosper-
ity an inundation of wickedness.
6. It is no easy matter to bear prosperity de-
cently.
7. Let the wretched hope and the prosperous be
on their guard. Latin.
8. Oh, how portentous is prosperity !
How, comet-like, it threatens while it shines I
Young,
9. Prosperity and vanity are often lodged to-
gether.
10. Prosperity destroys fools and endangers the
wise.
11. Prosperity discovers vices and adversity r
virtues.
12. Prosperity engenders sloth, Livy,
13. Prosperity forgets father and mother. Sp,
14. Prosperity gains friends, and adversity tries
them. Pacuvius,
15. Prosperity gives some appearance of higher
sentiments, even to persons of mean spirit.
Plutarch.
16. Prosperity is a ray of the sun that the least
shadow can interrupt ; adversity is sometimes like
the refreshing rain of Spring. Chinese.
172
Prosperity.
17. Prosperity is a stronger trial of virtue than
adversity. Rochefoucauld.
18. Prosperity is like a tender mother but blind
who spoils her children.
19. Prosperity is not without many fears and dis-
tastes, and adversity is not without comfort and
hopes. Souths
20. Prosperity is the nurse of anger. Latin.
21. Prosperity is the worst enemy men usually
have.
22. Prosperity lets go the bridle.
23. Prosperity is the thing in the world we ought
to trust least.
24. Prosperity tries the human heart with the
deepest probe and brings forth the hidden character.
Tacitus.
25. Prosperity's right hand is industry and her
left hand is frugality.
26. Prosperous men sacrifice not ; 1. ^., theyforgei
God.
27. Prosperous men seldom mend their faults.
28. The prosperous man cannot easily form a right
idea of misery. QunUilHan.
29. The prosperous man does not know
whether he is loved. Lucoh.
30. They must be strong legs that can support
prosperous days. Ger.
31. When prosperity smiles, beware of its guiles.
DuUh.
32. When prosperity was mounted, she. let go the
bridle and soon came tumbling out of the saddle.
Franklin.
Pkovbrb.
173
1. A man's life is often buitded on a proverb.
2. A proverb, a true word, Ger.
3. A proverb deceives not ; the heavens fall
not. Ger.
4. A proverb is a remnant of the ancient philos-
ophy preserved amidst very many destructions on
account of its brevity and fitness for use.
Syrus quoting from a work of Aristotle nmu lost.
5. A proverb is condensed popular wisdom.
Carl Sceibtuh.
6. A proverb Is much light condensed in one
flash, Simmons.
7. A proverb lies not ; its sense only deceives.
Ger.
8. A proverb — much matter decocted into a few
words. Fuller.
9. A proverb is the child of experience.
10. A proverb is the experience of half a cent-
ury, extracted from a dozen folio volumes and com-
pressed in a crystal.
I T, A proverb is the interpretation of the words of
the wise. Bible,
12. A proverb is the wit of one man and the wis-
dom of many, John Russdl.
13. A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles
difficulties. Yoruba.
14. All the good sense of the world runs into
proverbs,
15. An apologue of ^sop is beyond a syllogism,
and proverbs more powerful than demonstration.
Brown's Vulgar Errors.
»;4
Proverb.
1 6. As the country so the proverb. Ger,
1 7 . Cessit inpraverbum. {It has become a proverb^
i8. Generally a fable is a proverb put in action.
Maga.
19. I am proverb*d with a grandsire phrase,
To be candle-holder and looker-on. Shaks.
20. * * * * Jewels five words long
That on the stretched forefinger of all time
Sparkle forever. Tennyson,
21. Maxims expressed in a few words and become
popular. La Rousse,
22. Proverbs are the children of experience.
23. Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.
DuUh.
24. Proverbs are the echoes of experience.
Z* Abbede St Pierre,
25. Proverbs are the jewels of the multitude.
Popular EncydopcBdia.
26. Proverbs are the language of the gods. Vico,
27. Proverbs are the wisdom of ages. Ger.
28. Proverbs are the wisdom of the streets.
29. Proverbs bear age, and he would do well to
view himself in them as in a glass.
^ 30. Proverbs lie on the lips of fools.
31. Short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes.
32. Short sentences frequently repeated by the
people. Johnson.
33. Short sentences into which as in rules the
ancients have compressed Vd^. Johann Agricola^ ^SS^*
Providence.
175
' 34. Solomon made a book of proverbs, but a book
of proverbs never made a Solomon.
35. The genius, wit and spirit of a nation are dis-
covered in its proverbs. Bacon,
36. The ingredients of a good proverb are sense,
shortness and salt. Howell,
37. We have many coarse proverbs, but of good
meaning. Ger,
38. Well-known and well-used dicta framed in a
sort of out-of-the-way form and fashion. Erasmus,
39. When a poor man makes a proverb he does
not break it. Ger,
Providence.
1. If you leap into a well. Providence is not
bound to help you out.
2. If you oblige those who can never pay you,
you make Providence your debtor.
3. Providence alone can extricate us out of the
labyrinths we often fall into. Turkish Spy,
4. Providence assists not the idle. Latin,
5. Providence for the most part sets us on a level.
Spectator,
6. Providence is better than rent.
7. Providence knows better what we require than
we do ourselves. La Fontaine,
8. Providence is supremely wise, alike in what it
gives and what denies.
9. Providence will sooner or later procure the
felicity of the virtuous and innocent. Fielding,
10. There is a special providence in the fall of a
sparrow.
I ^5 Proving.^Provision.— Prude.— Prudxncb.
I. He that proves too much proves nothing.
LaHn.
3. Prove all things ; hold fast that which is good.
New Testament.
3. That which proves too much proves nothing.
Provision.
I. Provision in season makes a bien (plentiful)
house.
Prude.
I. A prude often preserves her reputation when
she has lost her virtue. Spectator,
Prudence.
1. Abandon not your old clothes till you get
your new. Gaelic,
2. A good " take heed " will surely speed.
3. A grain of prudence is worth a pound of
craft.
4. A prudent man does not make the goat his
gardener. Hungarian.
5. A prudent man procures in summer the sleigh
and in winter the wagon. Roumanian,
6. All things belong to the prudent.
7. A nail secures the horseshoe, the shoe the
horse, the horse the man, the man the castle, and
the castle the whole land. Ger,
8. Be on the safe side.
9. Attempt not to fly like an eagle with the
wings of a wren.
10. Be prudent with valor and brave without
ostentation. Agricola,
Prying.— Pudding. — Puff.— Pull.— Pun.
177
11. Colts by falling and lads by losing grow pru-
dent. Sp»
12. Destroy the lion while he is but a whelp.
13. Do not ship all in one bottom. Ger.
14. Do not wade where you see no bottom. Dan.
15. No protecting deity is wanted if there be
prudence. Juvenal,
16. Prudence is the charioteer of all virtue. Ztf//;^.
17. Prudence is the parent of success.
18. Prudence supplies the want of every good.
Juvenal.
19. The most prudent yields to the strongest. Ital.
20. The prudent still have fortune on their side.
Spectator.
Prying.
I. Who is always prying has a dangerous life.
Sp.
Pudding.
1. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Dutch.
2. The proof of the pudding is not in chewing
the bag.
Puff.
I. Puff not against the wind.
PnU.
1. Pull down your hat on the wind side.
2. Pull gently at a weak rope.
Pnn.
I. Who makes a pun will pick a pocket.
Punctnality.
I. Punctuality begets confidence and respect.
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178
Punishment. — Pure.— Purse.
2. Punctuality is the soul of business.
Punishment.
1. A monarch should be slow to punish, swift to
reward. Ovid,
2. Birchen twigs break no ribs.
3. It is cruelty to the innocent not to punish the
guilty. Syrus.
4. It is less to suifer punishment than to deserve
it. Ovid,
5. Let them who have deserved their punish-
ment bear it patiently. Ovid.
6. It is seldom that punishment though lame of '
foot has failed to overtake a villain. Horace.
7. Man punishes the action, but God the in-
tention.
8. Many without punishment, none without sin.
9. Punishment comes slowly, but it comes. Ger.
10. The worst punishment of all is that in the
court of his own conscience, no guilty man is ac-
quitted. Juvenal.
11. When men of talents are punished, authority
is strengthened. Tacitus,
12. Who punishes one threatens a hundred. Fr,
Pure.
I. To the pure all things are pure. Latin,
Purse.
1. A dainty stomach beggars the purse.
2. A full purse has many friends. Ger,
3. A full purse is better than ten friends. Ger,
4. A full purse makes the heart light. Ger,
Purse.
179
5. A full purse makes the mouth run over.
6. A full purse never lacks friends.
7. A handsome hostess is bad for the purse.
8. A handsome landlady is bad for the purse.
9. A light purse makes a heavy heart.
. 10. A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse.
11. A purse without money is but a piece of
leather.
12. All is not gain that is put in the purse.
13. All is not won that is put in the purse.
14. An empty purse causes a full heart. Fielding,
15. An empty purse damps a bargain. Gaelic.
16. An empty purse frightens away friends.
17. An empty purse and a new house make a
man wise, but too late. For,
18. An empty purse fills the face with wrinkles.
19. An empty purse frights away friends.
20. An empty purse is heavy but sickness presses
heavier. Roumanian,
21. An empty purse makes a man wise too late.
For,
22. Ask thy purse what thou shouldst buy.
23. Be it for better or be it for worse,
Be ruled by him that beareth the purse.
24. Better an empty purse than an empty head.
Ger,
25. Better an empty purse than gold saved. Ger,
26. But for all that the honest man has not got
his purse. Fr.
27. Give every man good words, but keep your
purse strings close.
1 80 Purse.
28. Gold and silver are a good provision in the
purse.
29. Gold is gold though it be in a rogue's purse.
Dan.
30. He hath left his purse in his other breeches.
31. He that buys and lies shall feel it in his purse.
32. He that has but four and spends five has no
need of a purse.
33. He that hath money in his purse cannot want
a head for his shoulders.
34. He that hath no money needeth no purse.
35. He that in his purse lacks money,
Hath in his mouth much need of honey.
36. He that shows his purse longs to be rid of it
37. He who does not open his eyes must open
his purse. Ger.
38. He who has his purse full preaches to the
poor man. Fr.
39. Heavy purses and light hearts can sustain
much. Dutch,
40. His purse and his palate are ill met.
41. His purse is made of toad-skin; /. ^., he is a
covetous person.
42. If a man empties his purse into his head no
man can take it from him. Franklin,
43. If you put nothing in your purse you can take
nothing out.
44. It is petty expenses that empty the purse. Itctl.
45. Keep your purse and your mouth closed.
46. Let your purse be your master.
lg2 Pursuits.— Put. — Quackery. — Quaileth.
64. Who has no money in his purse must have
honey in his mouth. Ital,
65. Wrinkled purses make wrinkled faces.
66. Yes, ready money is Aladdin's lamp. Byron.
Pursuits.
I. Trifling pursuits true wisdom casts away.
Horaue.
Put.
1. Put a stout heart to a steep hill.
2. Put by for a rainy day.
3. Put on your spurs and be at your speed.
4. Put the right man in the right place.
5. Put your finger in the fire, and say 'twas your
ill fortune. Scotch.
